Becoming Software-Centric: An Organizational Approach to Digital Transformation

Becoming Software-Centric An Organizational Approach to Digital Transformation As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series —a collection of contributed articles written by our enterprise tech thought leader community —Jiani Zhang, the Executive Vice President and Chief Software Officer at Capgemini Engineering, outlines a software-centric, organizational approach to digital transformation. For several years, the business and technology landscape has been inching closer to becoming a digital-first economy, with enterprises across industries putting software at the heart of their business models. This new digital era has made software adoption an imperative and has challenged many organizations to ask themselves, “What does it mean to be a software company?” The ongoing software-driven transformation organizations are facing will define the future of almost every industry. In fact, new research confirms that one-quarter of organizations already consider themselves software companies, with an additional 32 percent reporting that they expect to do so within the next three to five years. As these enterprises transform themselves into software companies, they must reconstruct their business models around software and, in doing so, change their revenue models, business processes, and organizational structures. Revenue Models On average, organizations invest 18 percent of their R&D budget in software initiatives, […]

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