Maturing the IT Environment

As a tech exec, how do you foster an environment that allows you to manage and ensure that business requirements and expectations are met effectively?  Maturing the IT environment should include the following:

  • Foster a consistent culture across all teams.

  • Ensure connection points to allow teams to work together.

  • Encourage leaders to have a similar mindset.

  • Align people where their skills can be best used.

  • Retain your staff.

  • Ensure you have the right vendors and are using them appropriately.

  • Encourage buy vs. build.

  • Automate to help support a DevOps platform.

  • Maintain metrics to measure growth and reward.

  • Build to run by embedding tools, reusing code, and leveraging open source (as appropriate).

Technology Innovation

Innovation is critical to the success of a company. Companies that do not innovate die. Technology executives need to factor innovation in as part of their technology strategy.

But it’s important for organizations to pursue a more conscious approach to innovation not driven solely by technology trends and performance. It will be essential to bring innovation closer to human needs in the new normal and devise an interaction that balances virtual and physical elements.

If companies do not want to be caught unprepared and wish to continue to thrive, companies will first need to build on their past experiences, while, at the same time, rethinking what “be resilient” really means and developing a new DNA accordingly.

Moreover, companies cannot afford a wait-and-see strategy; they must take immediate action to adapt their business strategies and operating models, taking account of the changing economic context and the availability of supranational financing, so as to move to a dimension best suited to seize the opportunities resulting from the expected “rebounds.”

With one caveat: the call to action is not just for entrepreneurs and business leaders, but it involves all areas and all company levels, although with different tasks and duties.

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