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A
s no two digital
transformation
projects will ever
be the same, from
the very start of the
process, CIOs need
to be extremely clear on the business
outcomes the organisation wants to
achieve through digital transformation.
Moreover, CIOs need to have a fundamental
understanding of the company’s business
models and leverage their visibility across
the organisation to help identify how such
a digital transformation journey might
affect each area of the company. After all,
undertaking a digital transformation project
for a traditional business, born in the age
before cloud, will be very different from the
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journey taken by a cloud-born start-up that’s
looking to generate more revenue.
It’s understanding these intricacies and
objectives that will provide the CIO with the
opportunity to approach a transformation
programme in a much more effective way.
The ideal is that any new type of digital
transformation effort starts with a good
business idea or premise and then it’s the
CIOs and IT organisations’ role to help
deliver the capabilities needed to validate
the premise.
It is now widely recognised that digital
business models are changing the role of
CIOs. This reality is amplifying the need
for CIOs and their leadership colleagues
across the enterprise to collaborate on
Riverbed Technology’s CIO Richard
Hillebrecht shares some critical factors
that can determine the success of any
digital transformation.
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