Assert IT's Relevance During Digital Transformations

IT leaders are losing out on the digital domain to other organizational leaders, as IT gets pushed into a support function to “keep the lights on.”
CIOs are unsure of the role they should play in digital.
The digital world is relatively new, meaning there are few tried-and-true methods for IT to contribute to digital strategy.
More than half of all organizations have already delivered digital transformation projects.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Although digital transformations may not start with the CIO’s involvement, IT always has an important role to play.
It is easy to talk about what digital should look like, but knowing why the business wants to pursue digital initiatives is just as important for success.
IT is the avenue for technology to empower the business – do not let another department infringe on your domain.

Impact and Result

Use digital as a platform to perform more value-add activities to drive revenue instead of being a cost center or generator of cost savings.
Follow Info-Tech’s methodology to identify and execute IT’s role in digital to drive business value.
Use Info-Tech’s template to document IT’s involvement in digital, and ensure IT and other relevant stakeholders are present at digital strategy conversations.

Assert IT's Relevance During Digital Transformations Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out how the CIO role is linked to digital transformations, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand how we can support you in completing this project.

Assert IT's Relevance During Digital Transformations – Executive Brief

1. Define digital

Establish what digital means to your organization and IT’s specific role in digital.

2. Analyze gaps

Define the business context for “why digital?” Then analyze the difference between the current state and target state in a capability perspective.

3. Create roadmap

Bridge the gap between the target state and current state with a roadmap of prioritized digital initiatives.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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