Strategic thinking, quality development, intelligent utilization of data, automation of repetitive tasks, futuristic approach and innovation- essential for digital transformation

Innovation, AI, diversity, cloud-based architecture can benefit the organizations to gain a competitive edge over their competitors and allows them to grow in the industry

Major responsibilities of an IT manager include the initiation and management of repetitive task automation, data protection, cybersecurity, cloud migration and better collaboration within and outside the organization. With the recent development in technology like AI, cloud-based IT infrastructure and cyber-security rules. IT managers are considering these advances as one the best solutions for resolving the organization’s IT problems, improving the organization’s performance and providing the business intelligence to the executives in a timely manner for better decision making. Following are the recommendations for better IT management:

1. It is common for the CIOs and CTOs to get influenced by new IT trends or the new technology their competitor have incorporated in their system which in return can possibly neglect their strategic roadmap and budgetary expenses in the contract they should be able to analyze the problems in the organization and choose the suitable solution.
2. If the maintenance and supports of an organization’s IT system or different IT services consumes eighty percent of the employee’s working hours then it is high time for the organization to have major IT transformation or IT shift for improving business processes, it can be done either by outsourcing the IT project but should cater the risk management and innovation when providing the solution.
3. The real capability of a CIO is verified if he is able to detect the hidden problem and find the best suitable solution rather than solving the already known problem. CIO’s is strategic in nature, he should be able to anticipate the problems future IT needs of the organization and plan accordingly.
4. IT managers need to transform their coding culture from months to a couple of weeks along with sustainable improvement measures and code reusability for fastening the development process.
5. When planning and selecting the project, the project’s goal should be well defined, simple and short for better management.
6. IT team should develop the basic project structure within the first four months of the project and encourage the customer to provide continuous feedback; it enables the customers to be aware of the progress. 
7. Diversity plays an important role to improve the team’s performance and help in providing an innovative solution.
8. IT managers should be able to use IT advancements like cloud services and big data technologies on the organization’s data to extract meaningful information for the organization like predictions for near future trends etc. This type of information can help the organization formulate its strategic, marketing plans.
9. To enhance the organization’s security, it is essential for the IT department to migrate different IT segments to different IT infrastructure, not on a single cloud service for better management and lower dependency; chosen on the basis of teams’ capabilities, offered services and subscription models.
10. IT managers should build relationships with non-technical peers to help them manage an effective work environment and increase better understanding.
11. Revising the privacy policies periodically helps the organization to protect the data from different external attacks.
12. Customer’s link to the organization system is the weakest connection and should be well protected and secured. 
13. Updating the IT infrastructure to manage repetitive tasks using different AI services to save time and resources.
14. IT managers should develop an AI-based structure to capture different types of, data generated from different devices and services and use them for the benefit of the organization. IT managers should initiate the IT project to solve the organization’s problems innovatively with cost minimization and profit maximization factors.
15. Economic contraction is an unavoidable situation but with careful IT planning, these consequences can be minimized.

These are some of the recommendations that can make the IT manager realize these small but significant factors that can help them in managing his department and help him to be prepared for the potential IT problems.