Do you accelerate into change or pull back to mitigate risk?
Economic uncertainty, supply chain disruption, trade disputes, fast-moving market entrants – add to that customer expectations for seamless digital experiences at all times.
How do you move forward and transform IT? How do you avoid downtime and service interruptions? What are the right systems, platforms and partners for your digital transformation journey?
There is no single starting point and there are many options for the journey ahead to technology and technological change but there are common traits and an interplay between people, processes, technology with organisational culture at the locus.
For digital business leaders & business enablers, secure IT transformation means moving toward scalable, reliable, open infrastructure that enables growth while mitigating risk to transform an organization’s business model, products and services.
People – harness strengths & foster a growth mindset
Creating a strategy to power secure IT transformation is only possible with broad corporate support. From our experience, organizations should start by aligning IT leaders, business executives, and the C-suite on the organization’s IT modernization and business continuity objectives.
Secure IT transformation initiatives almost invariably affect many departments and functions at your organization, spanning business units, nance, and IT. Make sure every stakeholder is aligned on objectives, the value of the target outcome, and their roles and responsibilities, both at the start of the project and during execution.
In identifying potential solutions, it is likely the team will need a mix of promising proprietary and open source platforms or products. Consider how each of these technologies can support the organization’s objectives, beyond a simple ROI calculation – determine which solutions best contribute to your goals, and anticipate the priorities of each stakeholder involved in the technology adoption.
Organisations – innovation and security
Resilient organizations are aware of the need for continuity of the brand and nonstop business is now the norm.
They also share several traits:
- unity in responding to disruption, with IT and business leaders staying aligned as the enterprise shifts.
- use IT to gain competitive advantage, investing in technologies that help groups work faster and with greater autonomy.
- embrace a growth mindset, fostering a creative problem-solving culture that spreads throughout the organization.
In these ways, IT has a unique opportunity to build resilience throughout the organization, enabling the enterprise to invent its future in an era of uncertainty.
Every organisation has a unique context – through shared understanding, leadership, culture, and open source technologies, various stakeholders can minimize the risk of interrupting operations, modernize the customer experiences, accelerate innovation and meet business goals.
This article is sponsored by SUSE
