Industry Week recently reported that two-thirds of the top 2000 Global CEOs will have digital transformation at the core of their corporate strategy by the end of 2017. More ominous, Gartner predicted at this year’s annual Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Conference, that enterprises risk falling behind their competition, unless they implement digital transformation projects in 2018.
Transformation, not tweaks
Companies who pursue digital transformation cannot be satisfied with initiatives that are incremental improvements to the current status quo. CIO’s must critically evaluate their technology portfolio and the processes which are currently inherent to the business model – automated or otherwise. Data and automation silos within the enterprise must be viewed with a new level of loathing, and an assassin-like mindset to eliminate them. The entire organization must be open to serving the customer with a new level of speed, convenience and personalization at all possible touch-points.
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Source: IT Strategy