Sunday, November 12, 2017

The Monthly "Digital IT: 100 Q&As" Book Tuning: How to Reach High Level of IT Digital Maturity Nov. 2017

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things.



Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm innovative and better ways to do things and improve management capabilities. Here is the monthly “Digital IT: 100 Q&As” book tuning with a set of blogs to brainstorm how to bridge IT-business gaps.


           How to Reach High Level of IT Digital Maturity

  • Three CIO Debates to Assess IT Digital Maturity? IT has become strategically important, it is imperative for IT and business leaders to work effectively and efficiently together to ensure that they are leveraging IT across their companies to attain enterprise-wide digital transformation; not just using IT as a digital extension, but running IT as a digital engine. Here are three CIO Debates to assess IT digital maturity?

  • CIOs as “Digital Master”: How to Ride Three Learning Curves to Improve IT Digital Maturity? Due to disruptive nature of technologies and exponential growth of information, the CIO role also becomes more dynamic and multifaceted. Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented to get digital ready. A digital CIO has to focus on guiding the company through the digital transformation. At the very least, IT must be a business partner within the organization. Regardless of which industry sectors or the nature of organization you are in, being a digital CIO will need to ride the multitude of learning curves promptly and lead digital transformation effortlessly.

  • Three Big “Hows” to Improve Digital IT Maturity? IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and strategically. IT is the huge and expensive investment in most of the organizations, whether it is "planning" or "performance," "process" or "people," “Information” or “innovation” issues, IT becomes the decisive success factor for the business’s long-term perspective. However, the majority of IT organizations are still getting stuck at the lower level of maturity. In practice, the CIOs shouldn't have been “overwhelmed” by the complexity of IT and uncertainty of business dynamic, Here are three big “HOWs” to improve digital IT maturity.   

  • Three CIO Debates to Assess IT Digital Maturity? IT has become strategically important, it is imperative for IT and business leaders to work effectively and efficiently together to ensure that they are leveraging IT across their companies to attain enterprise-wide digital transformation; not just using IT as a digital extension, but running IT as a digital engine. Here are three CIO Debates to assess IT digital maturity.

  • How to Run Differentiated IT to Reach the Zenith of Digital Maturity? The majority of IT organizations today still limit their role as a support center to keep the lights on. Bottom line thinking is one of the great limitations of modern IT organization. The true IT value is hard to derive from support services since measuring productivity can be elusive and difficult to quantify. Also with explosive information flow and disruptive digital technologies, all forward-thinking organizations claim they are in the information management businesses. Hence, IT as an information steward of the business has to be run as a  strategic partner and a key differentiator of the company, in order to improve business competency and reach the zenith of digital maturity.?

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