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New IT as a business and social tool is just beginning its life cycle, meaning that creative people can carve out entirely new niches and professions. Although adoption speeds vary, every modern industry uses IT in some form, and its potential as a competitive advantage is dropping.
As new IT now has a less dramatic effect on the bottom line, there is less money available for new projects. More significantly, businesses see their IT as a money drain. Having up-to-date IT infrastructure is a cost of doing business that did not used to exist, and the hardware, software, licences and communications to run it only get more expensive.
This means that there will be enormous demand for people who can keep those costs down while retaining the quality of IT required to be competitive in today's global markets. Mission-critical applications must be impeccably supported, and every drop of value must be extracted from their data.
Professionals who can orchestrate a variety of systems into a coherent whole will be in high demand. Making things work together better is a huge growth area. Taking expensive legacy systems out of the mix while retaining their functionality for the company is a neat trick IT professionals will need.
Businesses have to deal with employees who find IT completely overwhelming as well as those who are frustrated by outdated systems and equipment. Both groups are prone to creating "shadow systems," a security risk only eliminated by individualized training to meet their needs within the corporate IT offering.
There will always be exciting new frontiers in IT, but not every IT professional will work on the cutting edge. Although a less glamorous position, great managers who can keep a company's IT running reliably and safely will continue to be in high demand.
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