Instead of installing and managing products, your business will mostly contract for various online services. Your accounting, human resources and customer service groups will buy online capabilities, just like we buy telephone or electricity services today. Similarly, we're heading toward an environment largely devoid of physical network management concerns. You won't be buying or managing routers and switches, your service provider will. Technology usage will move this way because it's the most cost-effective path.
Network services enable scarce talent to be much more fully leveraged.
It's silly for every company to have its own expertise in SAP, Oracle, Cisco or similar technologies. Consequently, the demand for technical talent will shift away from end-user companies and toward the service providers themselves. A decade hence, many of you will be working for IT vendors, which will generally pay you better and treat you with more respect. Network services will also accelerate the independence of business units. It's much easier for departments to buy IT services than to manage their own IT activity.