Shadow IT is not growing. Business units’ control of IT spending is not a big problem, at least not yet.
These are controversial assertions, but Gartner 2016 CIO Agenda Survey reports that 83 percent of IT spending is controlled by enterprises’ IT organization, up from 79 percent in 2015 and 62 percent in 2012.
If shadow IT spending is dropping, why does Gartner analyst Kurt Potter say it should increase in his CIO Narratives for Business Unit IT Strategies presentation? His answer is that spending by lines of business (LOBs) supposedly drives digital transformation. Yet, this entire argument partly contradicts Gartner’s vision of bimodal IT, which depicts the twin spending models as a way to stimulate tech innovation.
The complete article can be found here.
