Enterprise IT management with bimodal IT
Thanks to the demands of employees and customers on enterprise IT under digital transformation, IT must be faster and smarter in the face of digital disruption, rapidly evolving markets, and new ways of working and doing business while still retaining the control and oversight required to guarantee compliance and security. Bimodal IT addresses this challenge by balancing the stability, safety, and accuracy of legacy in-house IT investments (also known as Mode 1) with the agility, speed, and innovation of continuous delivery through cloud services and applications (also known as Mode 2). Gartner predicted that organizations that can master bimodal IT will be in a strong position to compete in the digital business era, while those that cannot will struggle to keep pace with the rapidly changing IT landscape. Some examples of bimodal IT exploration are as follows:
- ING Bank
- General Electric
- Telstra
Most of these implementations...