Two Speed IT - What is it?
Two-speed IT (Bimodal IT) is the concept where IT solution development should include a fast track, allowing some projects to be implemented more quickly.
The philosophy behind two-speed IT proposes that agile, innovative IT initiatives should be allowed to move forward quickly without being hampered by the checks and balances needed to maintain business-critical IT operations.
What could it potentially do for you?
Two-Speed IT could help an IT organisation seize the opportunities afforded by the digital economy – operating at the speed of business moments allowing the organisation to sense and react in near real time to the market, customers and competitors.
Key questions you need to ask:
- Do you need to run a two-speed IT operation?
- What systems / processes need to run more quickly?
- Do you have the skills, experience and resources to execute?
- How are you going to make the changes to your IT organisation and operating model?
- What tools, processes and governance are you going to need?
Key challenges:
Skills
- Requires talented multidisciplinary teams required to work with new processes, tools and governance
- In a recent Coeus survey* only 34% of organisations stated they have the right people, skills and experience internally to deliver a fast track and agile projects
- The need to absorb disruptive new business models enabled by new digital technologies
- The need to scale up and down in Internet time
- The need to react fast to capture business moments – win the moments that matter
- Can Mode 1 and Mode 2 work together? Can two different sets of people, processes and tools work in harmony?
- By their very nature Mode 1 and Mode 2 need to work together
- Mode 1 deals with Enterprise systems, such as finance, which by the very nature of Commercial Mode 2 systems need to be interfaced together to allow real time transactions and customer order processing
- The third era of IT – digitalisation – poses additional challenges, such as the following 'nonlinear' needs
- Bimodal or two-speed is about addressing conventional and nonlinear enterprise IT
