Top 5 best practices for CIOs to unbundle the digital complexities and create a roadmap and lead the digital transformation journey
Digital disruption is rapidly changing the role of CIOs. The disruption caused by digital is both an opportunity and challenge for a CIO. It is important to understand the world we live in today. There are several macro level shifts that are changing the way we work, live, learn and play. Here’s looking at the top five best practices for CIOs, enabling them to lead this transformative digital journey.
DIGITAL READINESS
We are living in a very dynamic business environment shaped by a fast-changing digital technology landscape.
Going virtual, mobile, and social are three mega trends that are creating a world of opportunities for organizations to effectively and efficiently connect with their customers, employees and ecosystem partners. Today, it is becoming imperative for organizations to adopt digital strategies across their operations not just for cutting costs but also to increase employee productivity, bring in process efficiencies and most importantly, to engage better with their audience.
As the pace of digitalization increases, so does the companies’ need to adopt or upgrade their digital involvement. Under any given situation, one of the top-most priorities for a CIO should be to prepare an organization to participate and sustain itself during its transformation. In an eco-system built around contemporary, connected technologies, it is mandatory to shake the foundation of legacy business models to usher in new-age digital business models.
Many enterprises still hold back from completely embracing digital due to a lack of awareness and security. There is an ambiguity across several levels including technology competency, costs of digital deployment, digital architecture stack, etc.
CIOs need to work more closely with the organizations to create awareness and educate enterprises about digital benefits and their potential to bring about a transformation across industries.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of DataQuest.
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