How to stay future-proof as an IT manager?
In our vision of the ‘organization of the future,’ one thing is certain: change. You could say that change is the common thread in IT. Where Cloud was just a concept a few years ago, it is now a standard part of IT in almost every organization. As an IT manager, how do you ensure that IT developments are known and applied in the right way? In this whitepaper, Larik-Jan Verschuren, CTO at Fundaments, shares his experience in following trends and translating them for Fundaments. How does he, as CTO, ensure that he—and by extension, Fundaments—stays up-to-date? We then make these experiences concrete by looking at current developments: what trends does he see? And what does that involve?
Table of contents
- How do you stay up-to-date as an IT manager?
- What are the most important Cloud developments right now?
- What is the strategy to follow here?
1. HOW DO YOU STAY UP-TO-DATE AS AN IT MANAGER?
We asked our CTO, Larik-Jan, this question. The digital world is developing at lightning speed, of course, but how does he follow the important trends to stay up-to-date?
The customer as a foundation
A good IT manager keeps pace with this constantly changing world and evaluates trends based on a number of sources: customers, technology, and the market. One of the most important sources of information for me personally is our customers. I enjoy talking to them to find out what their challenges are, what they are running into, and where we can help them. This can be at both an operational and a strategic level.
Technology: Office of the CTO
Besides gathering a lot of information from customer contacts, I have a technical heart and like to test and try out as many new tools as possible myself. We do this in our Office of the CTO, among other things. This is essentially our technical playground. We don't just take a vendor's word for it; we remain critical and always test a solution extensively before we implement it. We are and remain a group of opinionated techies, so everything has to work perfectly from a technical standpoint. We must be able to rely on a solution, and it must work within the landscape in which we operate: being able to deploy it frequently and repeatedly for multiple partners is key.
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