As reality sets in, enterprises will now scramble to reset long-term plans while taking hasty and chaotic near-term actions to survive and many enterprises may not even survive in this global downturn.
IT now plays a more prominent role in overcoming the business challenge during this global economic downturn. Survivability of any organization will depend on the Digital Fitness of IT. Convergence of Processes, Systems and Data at Scale and Speed are some of the ingredients that go into a Digital Fitness.
Traditionally, IT has been measured as a necessary expense for doing business, be it OPEX or CAPEX. This metric doesn’t really tell the story anymore. Financial metrics don’t really measure the fitness level of IT to support business. In this “new normal,” IT must be measured by the flexible, nimble, composable, and consumable attributes of business.
Explore how IT leaders can create a Digital Fitness plan by taking short-term, mid-term and long-term actions, embracing the new normal.
Key Takeaways -
- How to Respond to the Unprecedented Times
- Defining Digital Fitness and IT’s New Normal
- Organizational Impedances towards Digital Fitness
- Behavior and Organization for IT’s New Normal
- Digital Fitness Roadmap and Metrics to Measure Success
For more details, write to us at marketing@sageitinc.com
Website - www.sageitinc.com
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Automation which is going to happen in next 5 to 7 years will be more than what happened in last 30 years in India.
After GST rollout in July 2017, No Creativity is possible to manage companies financials.
Each company, when it becomes sizable develops a work culture which influence the core business decision in the organization.
This work culture further develops an immune system which resists all good and not good changes in the organization.
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Copyright Notice:
This presentation is prepared by Author for Perbanas Institute as a part of Author Lecture Series. It is to be used for educational and non-commercial purposes only and is not to be changed, altered, or used for any commercial endeavor without the express written permission from Author and/or Perbanas Institute. Appropriate legal action may be taken against any person, organization, or entity attempting to misrepresent, charge, or profit from the educational materials contained here.
Authors are allowed to use their own articles without seeking permission from any person, organization, or entity.
Profit can only be enhance by optimizing the business processes, systems and peoples. (days had gone to raise the price)
To be competitive; companies in India needs to automate and optimize themselves as early as possible to sustain in business and maintain the better profit margin.
Automation which is going to happen in next 5 to 7 years will be more than what happened in last 30 years in India.
After GST rollout in July 2017, No Creativity is possible to manage companies financials.
Each company, when it becomes sizable develops a work culture which influence the core business decision in the organization.
This work culture further develops an immune system which resists all good and not good changes in the organization.
Driving Competitive Advantage In Uncertain TimesGreg Meyers
Reimagine business processes by extending digital’s power all the way through to the middle and back office where it can generate growth, cost efficiency, and business agility.
Intense competition and slow growth in mature markets have magnified uncertainty and put pressure on costs, just as regulators are escalating their demands. Research shows that CFOs and other senior finance executives believe that their function can play a key role but the ability to impact these challenges depends on levels of maturity and preparedness, which vary widely across companies and industries, as well by sub-functions. Here are the key findings from our research on how enterprises are driving transformation to achieve business impact.
Advanced Operating Models Research Insights: Life Sciences RnDGenpact Ltd
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The webinar covers:
• Overview of IT Governance
• Benefits of IT Governance
• IT Governance implementation : Approach and Methodology
• Key critical success factors
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Mr. Oladapo Ogundeji, from Digital Jewels and PECB partner.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ux_Yk4JLy0M
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The impacts of the data-technology-automation revolution are all around us, but we have already learned that the age of transformation calls for more than just faster ways of doing old things.
International Target Operating Model DesignChris Oddy
International Target Operating Model Design
Chris Oddy
SLIDE 1
• A Plan is only of value if it is successfully implemented
• A good Strategy is important… A Great Operating Model is more beneficial
• A Target Operating Model ensures everyone is aligned and knows what to do
SLIDE 2
What is an Operating Model?
• A breakdown of a business into its key components
• A framework for how an organization operates in terms of people, processes and technology
• A basis for formulating strategy and making informed decisions
What Is a Target Operating Model?
• A structure that dictates how the business should be organized
• A target state informed by strategy and opportunities for optimization
• An operational design that depicts how business objectives will be achieved
• A basis for developing operational improvement and transformation plans
• A framework that enables goal congruence
SLIDE 3
Why is a Target Operating Model Important?
• Without a Target Operating Model operations often evolve and do not fully align to the business vision and strategy
– This approach might work initially, however it has significant associated risk
– Clients and products are added, new markets are entered and acquisitions are integrated.
– People, processes and technologies build and a complicated web of inefficient and ineffective systems and processes is created
• A Target Operating Model based on the business strategy often leads to a significant competitive advantage:
– Faster decision making in areas such as launching new products, services and partnerships
– Improved client service through greater roles and responsibility definition across the organization
– Better investments as they can more easily be assessed and prioritized based on business impact
– Reduced risk from a more controlled and stable operating environment
– Higher colleague engagement and alignment from clearer strategic execution plans
– Greater long-term operational efficiency and optimization
• Businesses without a Target Operating Model typically:
– Deploy increasingly greater resources simply to manage the issue resolution and operational deficiencies.
– Decisions are slow due to the lack of clarity as to how to implement strategies
– Costs of adapting technology and processes increase exponentially
SLIDE 4
Where does the Target Operating Model Fit In?
• A Corporate Strategy must be reflected in a Target Operating Model for the Strategy to be successfully implemented
• The Target Operating Model comes below the vision and corporate strategy and above the operational planning and execution.
• The Target Operating Model can be created in layers
• The Target Operating Model for corporate, country and function level operations must be aligned and congruent with the Corporate Strategy
SLIDE 5 and 6
Focus Areas for Transformation and Optimization
1. Client Valu
Adaptation in the Shadow of Target Operating ModelNathan Allchin
Risk and opportunities for your engagement in an environment of strategic change.
Our clients are now having to revisit some of the fundamental assumptions of their corporate and business strategy, and as a result, many of these clients will increase their appetite for strategic change to their business model and operating model.
This has the potential to be an exciting time for us as consultants, yet it is not always a blessing to live in exciting times. To maximise our opportunities to deliver value, we need to appreciate how this change in the environment might impact our engagements, and what actions and mitigations we can take for the mutual benefit of the client and ourselves:
- What is driving clients to embrace strategic changes to their Business and Operating Models;
- What the emergence of a client’s Target Operating Model can mean for your engagement;
- What approaches you should take as consultants to adapt and thrive in this environment.
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Intense competition and slow growth in mature markets have magnified uncertainty and put pressure on costs, just as regulators are escalating their demands. Research shows that CFOs and other senior finance executives believe that their function can play a key role but the ability to impact these challenges depends on levels of maturity and preparedness, which vary widely across companies and industries, as well by sub-functions. Here are the key findings from our research on how enterprises are driving transformation to achieve business impact.
Advanced Operating Models Research Insights: Life Sciences RnDGenpact Ltd
Compliance, innovation, and cost reduction are your CEO’s top concerns. This research examines how technology, process re-engineering and advanced organizational structures such as shared services and outsourcing can tackle these challenges by making operations intelligent.
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing worldPECB
The webinar covers:
• Overview of IT Governance
• Benefits of IT Governance
• IT Governance implementation : Approach and Methodology
• Key critical success factors
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Mr. Oladapo Ogundeji, from Digital Jewels and PECB partner.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ux_Yk4JLy0M
A quick introduction to digital transformation. Covering Digital First, Lean, Agile, Leadership, it addresses the 3 core strands - People Change, Process Change and Technology Change. It presents a Systematic approach to Digital Transformation and the need for Governance and Leadership to realise the benefits. Observations include the share of the costs that lead to success, the risk profile of a transformation program and finally the hallmarks of a digital organization
The impacts of the data-technology-automation revolution are all around us, but we have already learned that the age of transformation calls for more than just faster ways of doing old things.
International Target Operating Model DesignChris Oddy
International Target Operating Model Design
Chris Oddy
SLIDE 1
• A Plan is only of value if it is successfully implemented
• A good Strategy is important… A Great Operating Model is more beneficial
• A Target Operating Model ensures everyone is aligned and knows what to do
SLIDE 2
What is an Operating Model?
• A breakdown of a business into its key components
• A framework for how an organization operates in terms of people, processes and technology
• A basis for formulating strategy and making informed decisions
What Is a Target Operating Model?
• A structure that dictates how the business should be organized
• A target state informed by strategy and opportunities for optimization
• An operational design that depicts how business objectives will be achieved
• A basis for developing operational improvement and transformation plans
• A framework that enables goal congruence
SLIDE 3
Why is a Target Operating Model Important?
• Without a Target Operating Model operations often evolve and do not fully align to the business vision and strategy
– This approach might work initially, however it has significant associated risk
– Clients and products are added, new markets are entered and acquisitions are integrated.
– People, processes and technologies build and a complicated web of inefficient and ineffective systems and processes is created
• A Target Operating Model based on the business strategy often leads to a significant competitive advantage:
– Faster decision making in areas such as launching new products, services and partnerships
– Improved client service through greater roles and responsibility definition across the organization
– Better investments as they can more easily be assessed and prioritized based on business impact
– Reduced risk from a more controlled and stable operating environment
– Higher colleague engagement and alignment from clearer strategic execution plans
– Greater long-term operational efficiency and optimization
• Businesses without a Target Operating Model typically:
– Deploy increasingly greater resources simply to manage the issue resolution and operational deficiencies.
– Decisions are slow due to the lack of clarity as to how to implement strategies
– Costs of adapting technology and processes increase exponentially
SLIDE 4
Where does the Target Operating Model Fit In?
• A Corporate Strategy must be reflected in a Target Operating Model for the Strategy to be successfully implemented
• The Target Operating Model comes below the vision and corporate strategy and above the operational planning and execution.
• The Target Operating Model can be created in layers
• The Target Operating Model for corporate, country and function level operations must be aligned and congruent with the Corporate Strategy
SLIDE 5 and 6
Focus Areas for Transformation and Optimization
1. Client Valu
Adaptation in the Shadow of Target Operating ModelNathan Allchin
Risk and opportunities for your engagement in an environment of strategic change.
Our clients are now having to revisit some of the fundamental assumptions of their corporate and business strategy, and as a result, many of these clients will increase their appetite for strategic change to their business model and operating model.
This has the potential to be an exciting time for us as consultants, yet it is not always a blessing to live in exciting times. To maximise our opportunities to deliver value, we need to appreciate how this change in the environment might impact our engagements, and what actions and mitigations we can take for the mutual benefit of the client and ourselves:
- What is driving clients to embrace strategic changes to their Business and Operating Models;
- What the emergence of a client’s Target Operating Model can mean for your engagement;
- What approaches you should take as consultants to adapt and thrive in this environment.
Advanced Operating Model Research Insights: Healthcare OperationsGenpact Ltd
Compliance, customer satisfaction, and cost reduction are your company’s top challenges. This research examines how technology, process re-engineering, and advanced organizational structures such as shared services and outsourcing can tackle them.
Business Value Measurements and the Solution Design FrameworkLeo Barella
The presentation covers a process and artifacts to establish better communication between business and IT and improve the quality and consistency of solutions. It also includes a tool to measure business value of the solutions that are being proposed and allows the business audience to make educated choices based on overall IT Business impact.
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2. Build confidence in changes through better use of data
3. How to oversee delivery while considering strategy
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- What is happening around you?
- What is more important than ever influencing IT?
- What does that mean for your IT strategy?
- How to derive your Lean IT Organization and Governance Model from your updated IT strategy?
- How to implement your Lean IT Organization and Governance Model?
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Most businesses are trying to achieve digital transformation, but not everyone is going about it the right way. MuleSoft recently surveyed 800 global IT decision makers; 96 percent of respondents are executing on digital transformation initiatives or planning to do so in the near future. However, the results also showed that just 18 percent of IT decision makers are confident that they will succeed in meeting this year’s digital transformation goals.
In this presentation, you will learn:
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-Steps to digitize data and transform the organization
-How CIOs and IT teams can reconcile existing technology with expectations for digital transformation
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Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
It’s not a secret that the need to modernize traditional finance operations and evolve into a “Digital Finance” organization has become a key priority for finance leaders.
In this video recap of the webinar held on 12/11/ 2019; Raul Vega, Auxis CEO, discussed the key risks and challenges organizations typically face as part of their transformation journey, and how to develop and execute a strategy that provides the business case and outcomes you expect based on your specific company size and needs.
What was covered:
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- Digitization as a Key Element of the Modern Finance Organization
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- Implementation Strategies & Alternatives
- How Outsourcing can help finance executives self-fund their Digital Finance Strategy and drive faster outcomes
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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2. Key Takeaway From This Webinar
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IT’s New Normal
#1
How to
Respond to the
Unprecedented
Times
#2
Defining Digital
Fitness and IT’s
New Normal
#4
Behavior and
Organization for
IT’s New
Normal
#5
Digital Fitness
Roadmap and
Metrics to
Measure
Success
#3
Organizational
Impedances
towards Digital
Fitness
3. 3
Aravind Kashyap
CEO, Sage IT
▪ 25+ years experience with unique ability to drive
businesses globally with strategic and operational
expertise
▪ Expertise in digital transformation, technology
management and global sourcing
▪ Remit includes value analysis, communications, strategy-
operational alignment and international expansion
Kerrie Hoffman
Principal and Co-founder,
Get Digital Velocity.
▪ 30+ years experience as an intrapreneur and business
transformer
▪ Digital Advisor helping companies accelerate the move to
frictionless business and Certified Business Coach
▪ Keynote Speaker at Industry Venues and #1 Bestselling
Business Author
IT’s
Speakers
4. Introducing Digital Fitness
IT’s Complexity and
Business Dimension
IT’s New Normal
Starting Digital
Fitness Journey
Questions & Answers
AGENDA
IT’s New Normal
How Companies are
becoming Digitally Fit
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5. It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent,
but the most responsive to change.
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6. A Muted World Recovery to COVID-19
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China1
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Eurozone
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2023 Q1
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7. It is a Tsunami of More Complex Issues Ahead…
COVID-19
Initial Issues
Economic
Recession
Return to
Work
A New
Normal
• Will we be in this
situation for weeks
or months?
• What will return to
work really look like
and how can I do it
without
endangering my
people?
• We are in the
middle of the
biggest demand
drawdown since
WW2.
Do we have a
plan to survive
that puts
everything on
the table?
• How do I protect
my people?
• How do I ensure
transparency
with customers?
• How do I
stabilize my
supply chain?
• How do I ensure
working capital?
Business as
usual issues
Credits: Mckinsey & Co
• This kind of sea-
change, for this long
a time, will mean that
the world post
COVID-19 could look
very different than
the world before it
• Do we know the big
changes and what
it means?
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Reimagination ReformReturnResolve Resilience
8. The condition of being
physically fit and healthy
The quality of being
suitable to fulfill a
particular role or task
An organism’s ability to
survive and reproduce
in a particular environment
The condition of being fit and
resilient to handle changing
business conditions
The quality of being suitable
to meet customer needs of
faster, better, cheaper, larger
and steadier
A business ability to
survive and innovate
under all conditions
Defining IT’s Digital fit-nessDefining fit-ness
Introducing Digital Fitness – IT’s New Normal
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9. Introducing Digital Fitness
IT’s Complexity and
Business Dimension
IT’s New Normal
Starting Digital
Fitness Journey
Questions & Answers
AGENDA
IT’s New Normal
How Companies are
becoming Digitally Fit
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10. Organizations traditionally have adopted a Teams Approach
to Tackle the Situation
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Nerve Center
Team – Deliver
Execution Team(s)
Deliver quickly & flawlessly
on priorities provided by
“Decide” team
Team – Decide
Integrated Operations Team
Ensure “Deliver” goals are current
& progress is occurring; decide
whether to trigger a strategic move
Team – Discover
Scenario Planning Team
Evaluate possible scenarios –
near-term to long-term & derive
implications; craft one planning
scenario for other teams
Team – Design
Strategic Moves Team
Craft a portfolio of
strategic actions with
clear trigger points
Credits: Mckinsey & Co
11. Core concept:
Create an organization that can Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
faster than the environment
John Boyd was a Colonel in the U.S. Air
Force, whose ideas on the art of war
revolutionized U.S. military thinking,
especially after the Vietnam war.
Boyd’s key concept: The OODA loop.
The key to victory is to be able to make
appropriate decisions faster that the rate at
which the environment evolves.
John Boyd’s
OODA loop
Observe
Orient
Decide
OODA loop of the effective organization
OODA loop of the environment
Nerve Center Design is Based on Military Command Principles
Act
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12. The Reality is Where Does Your Company Fall and How Does it
Tackle the Situation
Traditional
IT for Business Capabilities
IT as a responsive center to
business needs
Progressive
IT for Market Advantage
IT as a proactive center to
build business advantage
Legacy
IT for Business Operations
IT as a cost center to run
business operations
Digital
IT for Strategic Advantage
IT as a strategic center to
innovate business
continuously
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13. Risk & Compliance
Management
Integrated Risk Strategy
Your IT Organization is Complex and Does Not Help the Cause either
IT Business
Management Governance
IT Solution
Delivery
IT Services
Support
Business Program Management
Business Technology Strategy
Ent. Architecture Roadmap
Stakeholder Communications
Sourcing Strategy
IT Resilience Strategy
Regulatory, Compliance &
Security Strategy
Enterprise Information
Security Architecture
IT Strategic Direction
Setting
Release Management
Policies & PMO
Definition of Standards &
Methodologies
Solution Architecture &
Prioritization & Authorization
of Business Change requests
Approvals of Long Range Planning,
UAT, Tech Refresh Time frames, etc.
Service Delivery Strategy
IT Portfolio management
Services Marketing planning
Financial Management
Sourcing Model
Unified Regulatory & Compliance
Roadmap
Information Risk Management
Information Security framework
Business Continuity & DR
Planning
Sourcing Management
Demand Management
Performance planning
Financial Planning
Enterprise Data Model
Solutions Scheduling
Platform Architecture
Tools & Service Automation
Capacity Planning
Third Party Maintenance
agreements
Resource Planning
Service Level
Management
Service Catalogue Creation
& management
Service Level Framework
Implementation
Procurement
BCP Implementation
Audits & Controls
Implementation
Information Security Architecture
Assessments & Certifications
Governance Council
Set-up (Audit council,
Change Control Board, etc.)
Governance process &
Change Management
Services & Solution Creation
Change & Release Implementation
Solution Testing
Quality Assurance
Support Services delivery
organization set up
Change & Service Request
Implementation
Communication management
CSAT
Charge back
Contract Management
Security Infrastructure Management
Risk Management
BCP testing & maintenance
Compliance monitoring & reporting
Vendor Management
Performance Management
Solution rollout
Technical Project Management
Infrastructure Support Services
Application Support Services
Resource optimization
End User Support servicesPerformance Measurement
Approvals of
Change Control,
Documentation, etc.
Business Requirements
Analysis & Specs
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Plan &
Design
Implement
Operate &
Optimize
Strategy
14. Introducing Digital Fitness
IT’s Complexity and
Business Dimension
IT’s New Normal
Starting Digital
Fitness Journey
Questions & Answers
AGENDA
IT’s New Normal
How Companies are
becoming Digitally Fit
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15. Enablers
Automation
Platforms
Open source
Cloud
Analytics
Mobile First
Digital
AI
Virtual Reality
Operating
Models
As-a-Service
Agile
Delivery
Innovation
Focus
Areas
Risk &
Compliance
Organization
Change
Management
Eco-system
Run Change Innovate
Old Paradigm of IT : Run, Change and Innovate
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• Digital first for all parts of the Organization
• Transform while managing costs down
• Address tactical and strategic priorities
• Standardize. Simplify. Scale.
• Business performance view of IT
16. Business Interactions are Increasingly becoming boundary-less,
inter-dependent and market-aligned
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Customers
Experience
Platforms
Ecosystems
Platforms
Things Employees
Employee
Collaboration
& Workplace
Organization
Knowledge
Management
Decision Support
Systems
Industry &
Partner–Run
Ecosystems
Enterprise–Run
Ecosystems
Customers–Facing
& Public APIs
Social
Networks
Customers
Portal & Apps
Multichannel
Interaction &
Commerce
Connected
Things
(Customer)
Connected
Things
(Partner)
Connected Things
(Enterprise)
Endpoint
Computing
Customers
Analytics
Partner &
Supplier Analytics
loT
Platforms
IT
Platforms
loT Analytics
OT Systems
Business & Operational
Analytics
Back–Office
Systems
Core
System
Customers Partners
17. IT’s New Normal Approach Takes a Systems Approach to deal
with the Complexity
System of Differentiation - Business Alignment System of Innovation - Lab and Dev Factories
System of Record - Shared Services System of Engagement - Center of Excellence
• Direct To Consumer channels
• Personalization
• Product Lifecycle management
• Planning & Forecasting
• Finance & Accounting
• Human Capital Management
• Account Payable/Receivable
• Quote to Cash Management
• Digital Platforms
• Product Innovation
• Advanced Analytics
• Channel Innovation
• Interoperability
• Insights & Advanced Analytics
• Customer Relationship
• Work force Enablement
DifferentiatedStandardBusinessProcess
Digital Experience
SAAS Infrastructure
Business Outcomes
Institutionalize
PAAS Infrastructure
Extended Ecosystem
Modernize
Hybrid Infrastructure
Process and Quality
Retain, Replace, Retire and Modernize
IAAS Infrastructure
Bots and Automation
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EvolvingStandard Technology
Agility/SpeedAlignment Skill Requirements
18. To Create a Digitally Fit Organization, IT Leaders have to
Continuously Transform along the 4 Axis
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IT
Innovation
New Product
Engineering
Data &
Intelligence
Digital
Experiences
Customer
Service
Service
Catalog
SaaS / PaaS / IaaS/
Hybrid Cloud
Automation
IT-OT
Convergence
API
Integration
Enterprise
Integration
Acceleration
Experience
Simplification
Connected
19. Introducing Digital Fitness
IT’s Complexity and
Business Dimension
IT’s New Normal
Starting Digital
Fitness Journey
Questions & Answers
AGENDA
IT’s New Normal
How Companies are
becoming Digitally Fit
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20. Roadmap to Get to IT’s New Normal
Immediate (1-8 Weeks) Mid-term (8-24 Weeks)
• Initiate business continuity procedures
• Categorize essential, non-essential,
discretionary IT services
• Initiate direct communication channels
• Create cross functional rapid response
teams
• Categorize IT portfolio into systems
(Records, infrastructure, data,
engagement, differentiation, innovation)
• Prioritize systems and create service
catalog to address them
• Evaluate IT team’s current skills and
capabilities
Long-term (24+ Weeks)
• Re-imagine customer journeys across front and back
office functions
• Re-imagine IT-business alignment (People, process and
technology alignment)
• Re-imagine IT team skills and capabilities for future
• Re-imagine IT organization structure and how to support
business growth
• Create and deliver capacity (Infra, applications,
technology) to business teams
• Deliver additional analytics, and insights to
business
• Deliver compliance and legal changes
• Deliver communication and collaboration tools
for all stakeholders
• Prioritize business needs for rapid return to
normalcy
• Focus on systems of engagement and
systems of differentiation for
re-launching the company
• Strengthen operations teams (Cross
functional of applications, infrastructure and
business process) for systems of records
• Categorize business areas into dollars, noise
and compliance zones
• Create re-skill and re-train plans for the IT
resources
• Undertake key business process study with
aim of eliminate, simplify, reengineer and
automation
• Transform inside-out and outside-in processes
• Adopt agile methodology to implement
transformation
• Accelerate enterprise data to value program
• Accelerate the adoption of automation, AI/ML and
straight through processing programs
• Accelerate cloud adoption and move to IaaS,
PaaS or SaaS platforms
• Accelerate digital experience for all stakeholders
internally and externally
• Increase protection of applications, data,
infrastructure assets
• Increase protection for employee tasks and
activities
• Stress test all vulnerability points (Supply
chain, logistics, delivery, shipment,
transportation) 20
21. Data and
Information
Data as a
Service
Operations
Standardization
& Simplification
Metrics to Measure IT’s Digital Fitness using Balance Score Card
Financial &
Controls
Crush Cost
& Grow
Revenues
Capabilities
and
Excellence
• IT resiliency to support
business
• IT maturity to build new
business capabilities
• IT innovation to bring
competitive advantage
Objectives
• Cost Reduction
• Grow Sales
• Compliance
• Revenue Improvement
• Cash Flow
• Market Share
• Innovation
• Process Maturity
• Brand Equity
• Productivity
• Availability
• Excellence
• Scalability
• Experience
Metrics
Objectives
Measures
Targets
Initiatives
Objectives
Measures
Targets
Initiatives
Objectives
Measures
Targets
Initiatives
Business Drivers
Business Growth
& Efficiency
Objectives
Measures
Targets
Initiatives
Vision
and
Strategy
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22. Introducing Digital Fitness
IT’s Complexity and
Business Dimension
IT’s New Normal
Starting Digital
Fitness Journey
Questions & Answers
AGENDA
IT’s New Normal
How Companies are
becoming Digitally Fit
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