{"id":97,"date":"2016-07-08T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/v3it.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:37:32","slug":"there-is-a-point-of-complexity-beyond-which-a-business-is-no-longer-manageable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v3it.com\/blog\/there-is-a-point-of-complexity-beyond-which-a-business-is-no-longer-manageable\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IT complexity has become a serious business problem\u2014and IT managers are taking steps to control it, according to a new survey.<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Robert L- Ssheier<\/strong><\/p>\n

MOST IT PROFESSIONALS<\/strong> understand that much of the complexity underpinning today\u2019s IT systems can, to business users, slow innovation and decision-making while increasing costs. Yet the limitations of technology to date have made IT more complex, not less. The good news: Preliminary results of a recent survey of more than 300 IT professionals by CIO Insight<\/em> suggest that IT managers not only recognize complexity as a major problem for their organizations but are doing something about it. And almost 90 percent of survey respondents said they are implementing IT simplification projects.<\/p>\n

We use the term “complexity” in this survey to describe decision-making, business processes and information management technologies that force employees, customers or business partners to perform too many manual steps, wait too long or struggle too hard to get the information they need.<\/p>\n

THE CAUSES OF COMPLEXITY<\/strong>
\nThe major causes of complexity cited by IT respondents all reflect the difficulties involved in managing today’s IT environments (see Figure 1, “Managing Complex IT Environments”). Not surprisingly, the many challenges involved in managing today\u2019s hybrid environments of both cloud and on-premises systems ranked highest by 56 percent of respondents as a significant driver of excess IT complexity. Meanwhile, about four in 10 respondents mention fast-growing volumes of data, integration between systems and increasing security requirements as top challenges contributing to IT complexity in their organizations.<\/p>\n

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Although the survey results are preliminary, it’s clear that IT professionals need better ways of managing multiple systems and databases to reduce complexity. Similarly, when asked to rate the impact that IT complexity has on their business, IT managers identified the following areas most often as having an extremely negative impact:<\/p>\n