Computing Explains: Leading business change from the IT department

Let IT head up your growth and innovation, not follow along behind it

In this video, Computing's Peter Gothard explores how, in an enterprise landscape of inescapable change, IT can endeavour to lead from the front as opposed to follow from the back.

Change is a constant in IT. As more efficient ways are found to work, its role in the business inevitably alters as technology practice moves with workforce demand.

And the pace of change now seems greater than ever, with 22 per cent of organisations telling Computing Research that they struggle to keep up with user expectations due to change, especially from the effects of factors such as consumerisation and outsourcing.

It's essential IT teams keep an eye on trends and developments in order to change proactively. Otherwise, they risk becoming an irrelevance.

Join Computing and IBM to find out how you can own - and drive - business change from a position of authority and innovation.