| | Oct 20198As a CIO and CTO, I have been facing the challenge to design, build and deploy smart systems which can flex and scale with the business and help the business processes to deliver optimum efficiencies possible. While the mandates from the top management and from the peer CXO's is very clear, the journey to achieving real tangible success depends on several factors. In this article I would like to deal with these challenges and see if we can collaborate as practitioners to find smarter solutions for the same. IT for IT Let's start with the IT Function first, because if we don't transform IT we cannot enable or help our peers in the business to deliver their corporate objectives. Also there has been a traditional wisdom that charity begins at home. We need to review what delivery processes, organizational competencies, skill sets, tools, techniques, architecture principles, team collaboration exists in our own function. We need to design and build a function aligned to the industry sector that we exist for. For e.g. a B2C organization needs a fundamentally different approach than a B2B. It should also vary depending on the size, geographical spread, age, market position, maturity cycle, future aspirations (if the board level strategic vision exist?) etc of the business itself. Traditional IT has been an asset focused function. With changing tech developments and innovations the services mind-set transformation of IT itself is a journey of sorts. Building and leveraging supplier relationships to augment the IT function delivery capability is becoming more and more important as its very difficult for end user organizations to maintain such skill pools and keep them up-Digital Competence Prelude to Digital Transformation By Raahil Burhaani, CIO, Essar Oil UK LtdRaahil BurhaaniIN MY OPINION
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