In “Designed for Digital: How to Architect Your Business for Sustained Success,” Jeanne Ross, Cynthia Beath and Martin Mocker offer a contemporary digital model for enterprises. Those who can obtain it will have the ‘right to win’ and who cannot will increasingly find themselves subjected to wave after wave of digital disruption.
Interestingly, the authors not only argue for the importance of architecture, but they also argue for a revised theory of management. This makes the book relevant to IT professionals and business leaders interested in digital transformation.
The environment has changed
The book’s authors say that enterprises today are being bombarded by digital technologies. As a single mnemonic, SMACIT stands for social, mobile, analytics, cloud and IoT. The authors claim—as we are all seeing—that digital technologies have become a game changer because they deliver three business capabilities—ubiquitous data, unlimited connectivity and massive processing power.
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Source: IT Strategy