STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF IT BUSINESS ON NO-CODE PLATFORMS: CONCEPTUALISATION OF THE NOTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE CORPORATE IT FUNCTION Strategic development of IT business on no-code platforms: conceptualisation of the notion and transformation of the corporate IT function

Published in JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT · Issue 9, 2026 · Pages 305–310 · Rubric: SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26118/2782-4586-2026-305-310
Received: 25.09.2026 Accepted: 14.10.2026 Published: 14.10.2026
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The article offers a conceptualisation of the strategic development of IT business on no-code platforms and describes the accompanying transformation of the corporate IT function. By contrasting three research approaches to the notion of IT business – the product, functional, and strategic-managerial ones – the author formulates a working definition that links the development of the internal digital contour with the reduction of the distance between a managerial need and its digital implementation. A model of role redistribution between the centralised IT function and business units involving citizen developers is presented: a shift from a monopoly on assembling applications to the shared ownership of digital products, while data architecture, security, integration, and release management remain with the IT service. The limitations of the approach – shadow IT, technical debt, vendor dependence, and a shortage of quality data – and the conditions for keeping them manageable are outlined. The methodological basis is the theoretical analysis and synthesis of Russian and foreign publications and conceptual modelling.
IT business, strategic development, no-code platforms, low-code, digital transformation, citizen developers, corporate IT function, digital maturity, shared ownership of digital products
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