Multi-speed IT is achieved by bringing together a network of skills, instituting a dynamic operating model and installing flexible governance models. The challenge is great, but the reward for the CIO is a pivotal role in an organization’s strategic business agenda.
Accenture Strategy surveyed more than 900 executives on the need for—and ability to deliver—multi-speed IT. While there is broad agreement on the need, opinions on ability vary greatly.
- Eighty-eight percent of executives believe that the IT organization needs to broaden its scope and keep pace with evolving needs of the business.
- Seventy percent of executives believed they or their IT organization could operate and simultaneously support multiple business objectives, or “multi-speed IT.”
- Eighty-one percent of executives stated that most IT organizations do not know how to operate effectively while supporting multiple objectives at the same time.
