Bimodal IT

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What Does Bimodal IT Mean?

Bimodal IT is a type of strategy or setup where a single IT department is split up into two parts – one part addresses maintenance and support issues, while another part pursues innovation and expansion. Bimodal IT helps companies to keep up with these two very different responsibilities in a more direct way than by trying to delegate both within one IT department.

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Techopedia Explains Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT is helping to solve major issues in how companies move forward. Traditionally, there can be a lot of confusion and pressure on IT departments that have to maintain infrastructure and keep operational hardware running, while also trying to get creative and modernize business operations. Bimodal IT helps to better outline the ways that companies can do both of those things at the same time.

Bimodal IT is described in detail by popular IT firm Gartner as splitting up the IT department into two essential teams that pursue different objectives. The first component is what Gartner describes as “traditional,” focusing on maintaining operations. The second is a “non-sequential” element which seeks to innovate and pursue change.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.