Lack of awareness and skepticism about low-code creates communication barriers between IT and business stakeholders

HFS asked 150 Global 2000 enterprise decision makers an open-ended question about the challenges their organizations face in adopting low-code. The most often selected responses revealed that low-code adoption is an awareness issue and that technical and governance concerns are holding it back.

• Fifty-three percent (53%) of respondents indicate that stakeholders’ lack of awareness and buy-in impedes the adoption of low-code in their respective organizations.
  HFS advises these firms to understand that low-code is not a universal solution. Instead, it is a supplementary tool to accelerate software development and empower software development teams to collaborate more effectively with their business counterparts for swift and efficient software delivery.
• Forty-seven percent (47%) of respondents resist using low-code due to a lack of a governance framework.
  HFS advises them to get going on designing a user-friendly framework that encourages innovation, collaboration, and delivery. Use your app COE to ensure that low-code solutions are intended for managing risks, ensuring quality, maintaining consistency, achieving compliance, fostering collaboration, addressing scalability issues, and optimizing resources.
• Forty-seven percent (47%) of respondents blame technical barriers inherent to the low-code platform for slower adoption.
  HFS advises that these firms need to stop blaming IT! As businesses gain proficiency in crafting applications, workflows, and insights, utilizing low-code visualization tools becomes an enticing prospect, attracting a more vibrant and creative workforce. This shift may blur conventional distinctions between traditional IT roles and established business models. 

The Bottom Line: To ensure the successful integration of low-code practices, organizations must prioritize establishing awareness and training initiatives tailored to their business needs.

While embracing low-code may challenge existing governance models and centers of excellence, these hurdles should not impede its adoption or utilization. Instead, view this as a pivotal moment—a “crossing the chasm” scenario—for dismantling silos between technology and business. This transformative step opens avenues for sustained collaboration and synergy, fostering a more integrated and efficient approach to technology-driven business solutions.