Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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As we explore the idea of “making a digital shift,” we must focus primarily on the front end of the process: the hard thinking required at the C-level. We also need to tackle the reasons it must be at that level. Next, it’s important to examine the ways to keep up the momentum and stay on track in managerial, not technical, terms.
More and more, companies are looking to Agile technology teams for a model of behavior for the rest of the business. Agile teams work more holistically toward outcomes, make more strategic tradeoffs, are more transparent and responsive, and so on. If your team doesn't make software but you want to be more Agile, what can you do?
In this Advisor, Stijn Viaene has distilled five conditions for digital transformation success at the highest level that have emerged from his research.
With the onset of a myriad of new technologies, such as 5G, network functional virtualization (NFV), and the Internet of Things (IoT), executives are increasingly realizing that transformation of their technology organizations is imminent. As we explore in this Advisor, the CTO office — the center of technology transformation — needs to rethink its strategic roadmap and operating model.
Athula Ginige and Marie D. Fernando look at the idea of value creation in the digital shift era. In particular, their interest lies in how current Web- and mobile-based applications support what they term the “social computing” model, a new computing paradigm that stands apart from preceding computing paradigms. Their article presents a model for human needs fulfillment, which helps organizations map out their digital value-creation process and reveals the underlying information flow pattern required to secure trust.
A few years ago, I shared my thoughts on how consumer-facing organizations could use digital tools to engage better with their customers.” This article takes that idea a step further and describes the internal organizational and cultural changes that are required for this kind of digital transformation.
In this article, we analyze the skills needed for the development and use of enterprise architecture. We argue that these skills are vital to the success of organization-wide digital shifts.
In this Advisor, we examine autonomous systems. These systems are on track to find widespread adoption. They will be a game changer and will propel new research, development, and business opportunities. It’s no wonder they are attracting the interest of researchers, manufacturers, and users alike.