By Lisa Morgan, Freelance Writer, InformationWeek
The whipsaw effects of rapid White House policy changes are hitting IT vendors, consultants and enterprises. CIOs: The pandemic was a dress rehearsal.
The Trump Administration is making big changes faster than any other modern president. The movement of many kinds of levers — tariffs, buyout packages, government layoffs, and more are disrupting the status quo, and the effects will affect tech companies and enterprise chief information officers.
Like the pandemic, the extreme and rapid changes require extreme organizational agility, Monte Carlo simulations, an open mind, and a CIO unafraid to lead. As with all major changes, organizations need to have a strong vision and the ability to execute it within the context of changing circumstances.
Organizations Will Depend More on MSPs
Jonathan Lerner, president and CEO at MSP InterVision Systems, believes deregulation will create a lot of confusion.
“It’s about your customers, the people you work with every day, who are going to have a lot of questions right now,” says Lerner.
