We are going through a crucial phase of IT innovations leading to business disruption forcing the ‘C’ Level executives to come out of their comfort zone. It is no more about “How to keep the lights on ?“ It is all about “How to survive this digital storm?” Shift in IT solutions from “Centralized to Distributed” , “Private to Public”, “Safe to Fail” , “Lean IT to Clean IT” drives the race.

1. INVEST “IT” FOR ‘C’ LEVEL’S
IT INVESTMENT & SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH
-Suresh Subbu
3/22/2018

2. IT INVESTMENT
STRATEGY
 Overview
 Invest IT
 BlockChain
 AI & ML
 Cloud

3. OVERVIEW
We are going through a crucial phase of IT
innovations leading to business disruption
forcing the ‘C’ Level executives to come out
of their comfort zone.
It is no more about “How to keep the
lights on ?“
It is all about “How to survive this digital
storm?”
Shift in IT solutions from “Centralized to
Distributed” ,“Private to Public”,“Safe to
Fail” ,“Lean IT to Clean IT” drives the
race.
;) Actually,“Clean IT” is a framework I am
working on as I feel IT is always messy.

4. BLOCKCHAIN
To define in simple words,
“Internet distributes
data across public
network, Blockchain
distributes transactions
across public network”.
Blockchain is going to disrupt all or any business vertical. May it
be Financial , Health Care, Retail, Manufacturing , Media or
Education ,The underlying principle of doing business will change.
This also means ‘C’ Levels should train their resources on “Design
Thinking “ for effective implementation of block chain solutions.
Blockchain principle:
“Blockchain is a trust based, immutable,
peer to peer or distributed solution which
eliminates the middle man’s cost and effort
in doing a transaction.”
“Any board / business ,Who did not invest in
developing blockchain solutions as of today
will become obsolete in the next 5 years .“

5. AI – ARTIFICIAL
INELEGANCE
&
ML – MACHINE
LEARNING
Automation is considered as one of the Lean initiatives which
could eliminate waste and repurpose the human brains
towards innovation.
Studies say, some of the corporates went to an extent of
assigning employee ID’s to the BOT (robot) to measure
productivity.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning is all about
simulating issues and potential solutions through automation.
This is one of the major business disruptor of this era.
Leaders should be very careful in defining AI strategy based
on their organizational needs and maturity levels.
AI and ML results shows business growth and higher
customer satisfaction with added benefits of Scalability,
Agility,Elasticity & Redundancy.

6. Cloud is an enabling medium to scale up the required IT
resources in minutes or seconds.
CFO’s have absolute control on IT spend as the cost of
scaling up and scaling down the required IT resources is on
finger tips.
Now, It is much easier to eliminate the capital cost of lower
environments or POC’s as infrastructure can be scaled up
on demand.
Few of the cloud service types are,
SaaS - Software as a Service
PaaS - Platform as a Service
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
Microsoft Azure ,IBM Cloud , Amazon Web Services &
Google cloud are the major providers who offer cloud
services & solutions.

7. KNOW YOUR
MARKET SHAPERS
CIO’s / CTO’s success will get
measured towards how do they
transform their IT organization
adapting market shapers like
Blockchain, AI & Cloud,
irrespective of the industry
verticals.
I shall be sharing “Clean IT “ principles and framework
soon  .Thank you for reading.

8. FEEDBACK & COMMENTS PLEASE
-Suresh Subbu
3/22/2018
Disclaimer:This article is a writeup based on my learning and am publishing only for knowledge sharing purpose. I have no intent to promote or discriminate any tool
/technology/organization to which I may have used in this article as an use case or reference.