Almost all organisations are lagging on digital transformation as pace of change accelerates

Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer. After decades of investment in digital transformation, only a minority of organisations can claim to have reached an advanced level of digital maturity, analysis from F5 suggests. For F5’s inaugural Digital Maturity Index 1 , 300 responses from the 2023 State of Application Strategy Report were assessed against a set of six technical capabilities 2 : infrastructure, app delivery, data, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) operations, observability and automation, and security. Based on the research, a mere 4% can be classified as digital “doers”. In other words, organisations that have adopted and integrated technology to the point where it is core to business delivery – leveraging data and analytics to make decisions, providing digital services, and harnessing emerging technologies to enter new markets and gain competitive advantage. In some key sectors, including financial services, healthcare, education and energy/utilities, no organisation surveyed ranked in this category. By contrast, the vast majority (65%) are in the middle ground: digital ‘dabblers’ who scored strongly in some areas but not consistently across the six key capabilities assessed – IT infrastructure, data, app and app delivery, observability, and automation, SRE practices and security. The remaining 31% are the “dawdlers”, who […]

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