Challenges Facing IT Planning for the Next 18 Months
For the past 6 months, the challenges of COVID-19 led many IT teams to focus on short-term issues to ensure continuity of service for a diverse workforce. The speed of...
Category: Digital Transformation
Digital transformation — is it potentially just hype?
Data and Digital expert Clinton Jones breaks down the concept of Digital Transformation. For this and future generations, online shopping, real-time insights, digital service delivery and support and interactions are nothing unusual and in fact, they are implicitly assumed to be on offer. Businesses that don’t offer an experience that is aligned with this expectation will likely fall out of favour and see declining growth and stagnation.
Humans as Friction in a Digital World
Expert Contributor and Futurist Kevin Benedict highlights the need for technology to help society and leaders process and act upon increasingly complex amounts of incoming data. Looking specifically at military equipment and their use of autonomous technology to rapidly leverage and act upon critical data, Kevin concludes that it’s not just high-flying fighter pilots that need digital assistance to accomplish their missions, but increasingly business leaders as well.
Who Makes You Think Multi-Cloud?
Contributor and Cloud Evangelist Ian Moyse seeks the capabilities most have come to hope from a multi-cloud environment. Many either pay lip service in delivery or have found their current approaches limiting. Where is the promised land of “easy to shift when required” and to mix cloud platforms freely without limitations of cost and development? The Multi-cloud enables an organisation to distribute workloads across multiple cloud environments, mitigating single cloud risks and gaining a bigger return for investment.
Digital.ai – A new Value Stream Management (VSM) platform
CIO WaterCooler Contributor and Bloor Editor, David Norfolk, explores the Digital.ai Value Stream Management platform. The platform integrates existing tools such as Collabnet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan. VSM involves making an entire software pipeline transparent, with interoperable tools (including APIs for the integration of existing tools from other vendors in an organisation) and is about tracking, measuring and optimising value delivery.
How the pandemic has changed the way tech leaders deliver digital transformation
We spoke with CIO WaterCooler members Nick Burton, Victoria Higgin, Chris Lord and Sue Walnut to understand how the pandemic has changed their attitudes and how they deliver digital transformation. In the article, we highlight the top takeaways and include perspectives from our contributors in their own words.
