Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. Here’s how IT leaders are overhauling strategies and processes to streamline IT for quicker success. Credit: Eugenio Marongiu / Connect Images / Shutterstock CEOs prize transformation and reinvention, seeing both as essential to current and future competitiveness. But successful transformation and reinvention are no longer enough, top executives say. They must happen fast, and their delivery must get faster over time. Speed and agility bring in the top transformation prize. CIOs are feeling the pressure to expedite transformational work, as the ever-faster churn of customer demands — and the possibility of economic headwinds — further ratchet up the need for speed. To meet the pace required today, veteran IT executives and advisors offer 12 strategies CIOs can employ to increase their organizational velocity on transformational initiatives. 1. Drop ‘digital’ The term “ digital transformation ” cropped up more than a decade ago, and it has dominated business and technology agendas ever since. But Ari Lightman, professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, says it’s time to retire that term — and the mindset it engenders — and instead recognize that […]