Digital transformation is the realignment of, or new investment in, technology, business models, and processes to drive new value for customers, employees, partners, and suppliers to more effectively compete in an ever-changing digital economy.

- Brian Solis, Altimeter

The Six Stages of Digital Transformation

A CIO's Problem "8"

The trouble exists, and persists, because these identified requirement areas are not addressed holistically with each other, and they need to be for long-term modern digital transformation success.

A CIO must align all these areas as a priority, for a successful short- and long-term digital transformation strategy.

1.
Make data actionable. Ongoing collection and broad distribution of actionable accountable data
2.
Bust up the silos already with integrated applications, processes, content, access, intelligence, context
3.
Drive a holistic integration strategy - "One-offs" are slow to develop, hard to sustain, across SaaS & legacy systems
4.
Easy to build and enable business users to create integrated and purposeful contextual digital experiences
5.
Cross-systems access and scalable security across integrated digital experiences and workplaces
6.
Fast and efficient continuous integration/ continuous delivery devOps for continual innovations
7.
Modernize for cloud-based multi-tenant scalable models that can be deployed anywhere (multi-cloud + hybrid cloud)
8.
Evolved integrated apps, experiences, or workplaces work on any device, for any use case, and any user type

The Modern Digital Transformation Target Model

Digital change leaders are responsible for defining a new business future state, rich in new products and services in the realm of customer experience, employee, and suppliers experiences and a digital platform...

~ Dion Hinchcliffe, Constellation Research

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