What is Digital transformation, how to get there, and what precautions to be taken?

1. Navigating the Digital
Transformation Landscape
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder, CEO & Chief Architect
London Summit, May 24, 2017

2. The WSO2 journey
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Founded in
2005
100% Open
Source
Digital
Transformation
Platform
US, UK, Brazil,
Sri Lanka
450 People;
300 Engineers
Profitable
Business
in 2017

3. What is digital transformation?
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 Software really is eating the world!
Don’t become an anecdote (Kodak, Nokia,
Blackberry)
 Uberized experience is really much better
 Facilitating digital native customers,
employees

4. What does digital transformation
mean really?
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 New business models and digital products
 Improving customer experience
 Optimizing operations

5. How do you get there from here?
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 Technology
 Business culture

6. Democratize technology vision
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 Think past the hype; aim for the plateau
of productivity
 Believe everyone and no one, including
yourself
 Be dispassionately passionate; things do
change
 Don’t become old and jaded

7. Don’t bother getting it right
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 Build a quick PoC; fail fast; iterate
 Iterative architecture
 Empower your people; celebrate failure

8. Control your destiny
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 Open source
 Put lipstick on the pig: APIs
 Become recomposable

9. Work closely with the business
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 Address the right problems
 Sell it
 Constructively destroy the business

10. What does it all mean?
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 Relax; things change slowly
 Don’t take yourself too seriously; learn
something new everyday
 Take security seriously

11. Think long.
Act short.

12. THANK YOU
wso2.com