How Decentralized IT Can Lead to Chaos
It’s unclear who owns the IT acquisition process. This is important from a budgetary standpoint, since decentralization can lead to a duplication of IT spending.
69% of the IT professionals and business users surveyed said IT management has become increasingly decentralized over the last three years.
65% of IT pros want tech management to become more centralized.
74% of all the survey respondents believe that the tech department should enable lines of business to drive innovation.
60% said decentralization results in apps being developed outside of corporate or government regulations.
57% of the respondents said this decentralization has led to the purchasing of non-secure solutions.
56% said decentralization results in a lack of regulatory compliance of data protection.
58% of the IT pros surveyed said decentralization has created a lack of clear ownership and responsibility for IT.
61% of all the survey respondents feel that decentralization creates a duplication of IT spending throughout the organization.
57% said decentralization leads to a lack of awareness of overall IT spending enterprisewide.
As a result of the decentralization trend, organizations are seeing an average increase of 5.7% on technology spending.