The Role of Developers Developers play a pivotal role in digital transformation, creating innovative applications and services that deliver value to internal and external stakeholders. This shift in focus has led enterprises to prioritize “empowering developers” as their top IT investment objective in 2023, surpassing the previous emphasis on “improving application performance” in 2021.
The main drivers for digital transformation this year are pressure from developers to support agile processes and innovation, along with empowering developers to build more applications to meet customer demands. Key technologies required to empower developers include serverless computing, edge computing, IoT, and low/no-code tools. AI technologies offer transformative benefits as well, although only 35 percent of IT teams currently feel pressured to adopt them.
IT’s Role in Empowering the Organization IT departments must strike a balance between the potential benefits of business units procuring and developing services based on these technologies and the need to educate non-tech specialists to prevent costly mistakes. IT’s role is crucial in unlocking the potential of digital modernization, particularly through training and upskilling initiatives.
