IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

Digital transformations have the potential to drive significant business value across the entire enterprise, and today’s CIOs can embrace the pivotal opportunity to help their organizations meet new expectations. Credit: West Monroe Today’s CIOs have a pivotal opportunity to help their organizations meet new expectations . Yet, as organizations transform, CIOs and their teams are being asked to manage the optimal mix of infrastructure, platform, software, database, storage, and more to meet these new strategic objectives—while also creating sustained value and positioning the organization for the future. The challenge? Digital transformation itself is advancing rapidly. In my work with industry-leading CIOs who help their organizations transform, I see four ways that IT leaders can help their companies transform: 1. The vendor landscape is crowding as providers enter the transformation space with new offerings Organizations are bombarded with myriad choices for migrating IT operations and infrastructure to the cloud. Where the widespread adoption of SaaS previously distributed IT and lines-of-business selected and implemented their own applications, the pendulum is now shifting back with CIOs pursuing large-scale transformations to drive value and re-centralize operations. As part of this process they are evaluating a broad range of “as a service” options from […]

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