CIO Think Tank Roadmap Report: Reinventing IT

In March and April 2021, CIO held a collection of CIO Think Tank discussions—digital roundtables that introduced collectively 36 IT leaders to unpack one of the crucial necessary points within the enterprise at present: IT reinvention.

These discussions aimed to establish key points in reinventing IT to fulfill at present’s quickly evolving enterprise necessities, and provide a roadmap for IT management to beat sensible obstacles. The roundtables had been facilitated by John Gallant, Enterprise Consulting Director for IDG, and likewise included IDC Research Director Joe Pucciarelli, Group VP & IT Executive Advisor, IDC; IDG B2B Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr; and BMC Software Chief Technical Officer Ram Chakravarti.

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The members—IT leaders from a broad swath of economic industries, universities, and authorities companies of all sizes—drew on their very own expertise and information to explain strategic and tactical approaches to important challenges. How can IT overcome outdated habits and technical debt, reskill the workforce, and even reshape its personal mandate?

The urgency of these questions has solely elevated within the wake of the worldwide pandemic. IT not solely has to renew enterprise as regular, but additionally wants to assist enterprise speed up in a brand new setting.

While pandemic-related challenges have taken completely different kinds in numerous industries, a majority of organizations around the globe have confronted important headwinds over the previous year-plus. For instance, a world IDC Wave Survey, carried out in September 2020 with 679 respondents, discovered that 60% skilled provide chain planning and forecasting failures after the preliminary pandemic shock. 

According to our CIO Think Tank members, as corporations have endeavored to emerge from such pandemic impacts, IT leaders are more and more tasked with driving progress and revenue. It’s “all hands on deck” for organizations to get better and get again into progress mode.

Download our CIO Think Tank Roadmap to learn the way a range organizations are figuring out obstacles, highlighting progressive approaches, and difficult the tech business to assist navigate the highway forward.