Providing a Compass for the Journey
Wherever you turn, businesses are facing tremendous disruptive pressure. What’s interesting is that the theory about how firms should be dealing with this massive change is itself in flux,…
Source: Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment | TechCrunch
To deliver a superior customer experience, IT operations must be aware, agile and strategic.
In the IT industry, change is the only constant. So how can IT professionals best prepare themselves for the future? Follow these steps.
Source: How to prepare for the IT department of the future | CIO
Disruption is no longer just coming from the low end.
We recently took a look at the consequences that arise from friction and lack of coordination between security and IT operations staffs (the SecOps gap): everything from avoidable security risks to data loss, from production downtime to excessive labor costs. These problems came to the forefront in an exclusive new […]
The organizational skills that helped executives in the past deal with concrete, well-defined operations are much less effective in today’s highly complex, fast-changing world, CIO Journal Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes. Leaders need to better anticipate and plan for disruptions and be able to “connect the dots to reveal new business opportunities at the confluence of multiple emergent trends.”
Source: The Four Critical Competencies Guiding Transformational Leadership – The CIO Report – WSJ
CIOs are prioritizing different needs as they help their organizations evolve to become more digital thanks to security, mobility, analytics and cloud (or SMAC) technologies. A few CIOs shared their top projects for 2016 with CIO.com.
Source: How CIOs will refine digital transformation in 2016 | CIO
“A company’s competitive standing, if not its very identity, may come down to how well it is positioned in the battle of ecosystems fighting for control of its supply chain and customers, Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president and head of research at Gartner Inc., tells CIO Journal. “The battle for emerging ecosystems .. this software platform battle is going to be really interesting. This is not a battle between companies such as Oracle and SAP. It is a battle between suppliers in an ecosystem.”
Predicting the future is fun, but this year we were more interested in actual business plans. We asked CIOs to share their top priorities for 2016.
Source: User Experience, Talent and Analytics among CIO Priorities for 2016 – The CIO Report – WSJ
Looking ahead to 2016, CIOs say a focus on the customer is paramount, even as they continue to manage a broader technology ecosystem and maintain their focus on speed and agility.
Source: CIOs Say Focus on Customer Is Paramount – The CIO Report – WSJ