The need for greater agility is creating a need for a new role for IT. What is one way that IT's role is changing?

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Options

• AIT provides a competitive advantage for the company.
• BIT needs to plan more extensively before making any changes.
• CIT now makes most purchasing decisions on its own.
• DIT plays a supportive role in the background.

• A
  89% (24)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  7% (2)

Explanation

Greater organizational agility demands that IT shift from a cost center to a strategic enabler, meaning IT now actively drives competitive advantage (A) by delivering faster innovation, enabling new business models, and responding rapidly to market changes - all hallmarks of an agile IT role.

Why the distractors fail:

• B is the opposite of agility - extensive upfront planning is the old waterfall mindset that agility replaces.
• C is inaccurate; agile IT actually decentralizes purchasing through shadow IT and self-service, not consolidates it in IT alone.
• D describes the traditional "keep the lights on" IT role - exactly what organizations are moving away from to gain agility.

Memory tip: Think of the shift as IT moving from the back office to the boardroom - from reactive support to proactive competitive driver.

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