, creating technology or analytics capabilities for internal or external business use and reporting outside of IT departments. In a world where most technologists work outside the corporate IT department, literally anyone could be a technology buyer for their organization.”
The survey found that across large purchases in every major technology category, organizations take varying approaches to funding:is for IT to fund the entire purchase, followed by funding coming from multiple departments or BUs and IT.flip these two: Funding by multiple departments and IT is most common, followed by IT-only funding.Seventy-five percent of respondents using shared funding approaches experienced delays reaching agreement on the budget allocation between groups.
Even as the role of business technologists grows, product leaders should not bypass central IT representatives even when addressing an industry- or line-of-business-specific use case with an identified business champion, because in nearly every case, IT will continue to provide at least partial funding.