Digital Transformation continues to be a theme this year as we see in a number of predictions blogs and articles. But what is it? Is it a thing? Or is it everything?
DX has been going on in some form long before we called it that. The buzz today serves to direct our attention to the spectacular — inventing new markets, changing society. But not all companies are going to do that, or even need to. But every CIO needs to be looking at how the delivery of IT services is fundamentally changing, and understand how rapidly changing technology and market opportunities continue to impact their business.
Some things today are making DX harder and riskier than it used to be. And those same factors also make NOT thinking carefully about DX in your org equally risky. Some of these intertwined topics include the following:
- Rate of change
- Proliferation of technology options
- Understanding/factoring in impact on IT organizations (and the rest of the enterprise)
- Separating the fundamentally sound tech from the shiny objects
- Delivering new services at the speed the market (internal and external) wants them, with the level of control and security also needed
Planning and managing technology transformations is more difficult now than it was in past years, and it’s difficult to know what to bet on. Change is changing faster than ever before. With new tech coming out every year and the decisions being made having multi-year horizons, how do you plan and manage the tech roadmap in this world?
This is a topic we work on with our clients, and it’s one we think about deeply at The StrataFusion Group. We’ll share some of our thoughts on how we’re doing that next time…
Author:
Reed Kingston 2018