 Business leaders in the digital enterprise are putting the spotlight on IT to meet their expectations for agile and customer-centric service delivery to drive competitive advantage. One part of the solution is for IT leaders to adopt the open-group IT for IT standard. IT for IT is a value-chain-based reference architecture that helps reorganize IT to focus on value delivery. IT can finally deliver better business insights back to the lines of business because the IT for IT reference architecture information model and the service model backbone provide an end-to-end service data transparency across the entire IT value chain. Adopting the IT for IT standard accelerates reorganizing your IT department to focus on delivering business value. Many new IT for IT adopters get value immediately by starting with a value stream mapping exercise. They map the current state to the four IT for IT value streams and reference architecture. Through this exercise, IT can identify its operational silos, technology tool redundancies and write-out automation gaps that prevent the flow of business value and then they can set a roadmap to remedy these. One of the largest oil companies in the world simplified its complex IT processes and tool landscape and improved IT governance. Another bank used the IT for IT standard to bridge both IT and business silos and to establish genuine collaboration on business function automation. Many IT folk are thinking about their future. Where will they fit in the new digital way of life? A good place to start is to participate in the forum and the work groups. You will meet people who are using IT for IT to the benefit of their businesses. You will meet thought leaders. You can get trained. You can get certified. There's plenty of things to do to prepare yourself for the future.