Time Is Now For A Digital Capability Maturity Model

Digital disruption is testing the glory days of the IT Organization and how truly the CIO is also doubling as a business leader. So, are CIOs ready to embrace Digital and take their enterprises to next orbit of growth?

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The transformation is evident from the early 2000 and today CIOs are no longer relegated to the sidelines—rather they have taken the center stage. But the yesteryears EDP and MIS are mostly manned by programmers and often developed inhouse solutions—like payroll and some back-end processes. But often they are reactive solutions that made IT rigid and unable to scale and did not align well with business demands.

And somewhere in the mid-1990s this seemingly placid tech department slowly changed and information became an asset and probably that was the enterprise IT’s tipping point—the MIS managers morphed into CIOs and in some instances, the finance/business heads took to managing the technology roles. Much has been written about the changing roles of the CIOs and summarizing that might be a cliché here. But with the onset of digital disruption, are CIOs ready to take the big digital plunge?

CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND DEEP BLUE SEA 

Across the world, the CIOs are caught in a dilemma. One they still have legacy and siloes and assets on a corporate data center. But they are told to give the much needed tech leverage for the business to expand its footprints in the digital economy. what experts call as a digital-led business transformation is not an easy task.

And now, this digital disruption is testing the glory days of the IT Organization and how truly the CIO is also doubling up as a business leader. So, are CIOs ready to embrace Digital and take their enterprises to next orbit of growth?