| Silicon Republic Interviews Mark Templeton |
| Friday, 21 July 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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For many years Citrix has been driving the message that IT investment should be long term and strategic rather than firefighting. Is the message getting through? There is a changing of the guard taking place and the new guard is pushing things forward, looking for bridges to help make the transition and get to the new way of thinking. It looks to us as a thought leader and a strategic partner to get there as opposed to being one of the legacy guys feeding off the wake. You have to have the critical mass to move the boundaries and you need patience. What makes for a successful IT implementation? Companies need money, resources and time. We don’t believe in a big bang. Any great strategy is implemented successfully by a 1,000 great tactical moves, especially when you have an organisation with a big incumbent presence, whether it’s users, attitudes or technologies. What will be the next big technology change? Software as a service. Twenty-five years ago there was mainframe computing before the PC came and drove enormous change. We’ll see the same again with software as a service, but it will be faster and more destructive. Read the entire interview here.
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