Bad news: Digital transformation is imperative to the survival of your business, now more than ever.
More bad news: Digital transformation is only going to become more difficult to accomplish over time. The pace of change and disruption will never slow down.
Worst of all: The responsibility for digital transformation (or DX) no longer resides exclusively in the IT department. It will belong to everyone with a stake in success.
This means you: If you are the CIO. Or, in sales. Or in service delivery. Or in the back office.
Whatever your role, if you are not successfully participating in delivering new operational solutions within the next 12 months, then your company has failed to get off the starting blocks.
How have the stakes for DX gotten so high? And where can non-IT-professionals even place their resources, given the steep learning curve of today’s cloud and service-based technology stacks?
Where’s the real battle for transformation?
“It’s what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what’s real and what’s not, or you can realize the enemy hasn’t got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war.” — Karen Traviss, Author
Engineering and developer resources are eternally constrained in attempting to manage an ever-expanding hybrid IT application and data estate. Most company CIOs struggle just to keep the lights on with the resources they have, and the IT backlog is well documented
Even if a company allocates more than a standard industry share of its cost basis to increasing its developer headcount, services partners and infrastructure, the rate of growth of the technology stack will easily outstrip the company’s ability to hire and retain engineering talent. Further, the ever increasing demand in IT for digital solutions has made it so that IT has to prioritize specific, high-impact initiatives which results in other needs going unmet.
The good news? Your company is not alone — and even your closest competitors share serious technical constraints to digital transformation…
Read the entire post on the Quickbase blog here: https://www.quickbase.com/blog/citizen-automation-the-secret-weapon-of-digital-transformation
https://www.quickbase.com/blog/citizen-automation-the-secret-weapon-of-digital-transformation
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