Abstract

Digital transformation is driving an era of rapid change in IT and disruptive business models that threaten the very existence of our businesses. In this session, a discussion between leadership peers will take place in a setting moderated by Mark Sollazo and Kirk Hanratty, co-founders of SynerComm.

Some of the challenges IT professionals face are:

• A strategy for IT to keep up with the pace of business
• A strategy to align and mature your Information Security Program to enable and protect your business
• A strategy to identify, recruit, and retain key IT skillsets needed to address the ongoing talent and skills gaps.

Some opportunities to succeed are:

• Establishing Center(s) of Excellences
• Determine what is needed to thrive in this new world. What technologies, resources, and capabilities do you develop inhouse and/or thru strategic partnerships.
  • Tracking New Business and Service Delivery Models
  • Tracking Enabling (cloud, IT/OT, IoT), Emerging (5G), and Exponential Technologies (digitizing what once was physical – pictures, compute)
  • Global Architecture for new business and service delivery models that integrates with your existing business models, applications, data centers and digital debt.
• Orchestration, Automation and Self-Service Portals

Your Prediction for the most unanticipated change we will see in the next 3 years:

• Example: What is next to be "digitized/dematerialized" or "delivered _aaS"?

Recommended Reading

• Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works, by Ash Maurya
• How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, by Douglas W. Hubbard & Richard Seieren
• The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks, by Joshua Cooper Ramo
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel
• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter H. Diamandis