Digital transformation is great, if only the technology was ready

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Everyone – especially professional technology – is on board with digital transformation. However, while making a technology catalyst for the growth of digital business making good materials for analyst articles and reports, most often seem to be too slow or liked to make denters.

That is one of the main host results from the latest survey of 400 IT executives, conducted by IDG and guaranteed by insight companies. There is a broad agreement that modernization is very much needed before digital transformation can begin seriously. Eighty-nine percent of IT executives recognize that existing infrastructure, operations and cultures limit innovation and strategic business growth. At least half of the survey group, 49% said their IT infrastructure inhibited business growth “for the most part.”

Designers Surveys – Aran Bride and Jen Garofalo, both with IDG – define digital transformation as “adapting the organization to the first-first approach by revising and redefining business processes, organizational structures, and customers / customers. Digital transformation leverage technology such as Cloud, IoT, Network infrastructure, data analysis, mobility, and security to innovate or modernize business functions. “

Almost all IT executives also complain about less collaboration between teams in achieving the purpose of digital transformation. Eighty-seven percent show that the working relationship between developers and traditional is “blocking their ability to fully utilize digital transformation.” It seems that not much done has not to overcome this – only 20% are underway by implementing a platform team that collaborates with devsecops or agile team.

Knowledge skills and gaps also accommodate back – 44% quoted the skills and knowledge gap as an obstacle to inhibiting innovation. The lack of infrastructure optimization and inadequate data analysis capabilities for decision making follows at 39%.

However, 90% expect modernization to have a transformative or significant impact on the long-term growth of their organization, including 29% of those who have not started the process. The average respondent reported three to four measured improvements of IT modernization efforts to date, coupled with improving service quality (44%) and increased experience or user satisfaction (40%). Additional Returns submitted through digital transformation include business continuity (35%), cost savings (34%), resource optimization (33%), increased agility (32%) and increased product innovation (32%).

Close to two-thirds, 65%, placing is very important in the acceleration of application development and modernization to enable innovation. Some strategies have been in the game to help, including allowing security protocols and governance at the beginning of the application development cycle (66%), applying metrics, dashboards, and monitoring (66%), initial testing during application development (64%), managing update infrastructure and patch management (63%), and automation and CI / CD to overcome performance problems (60%).

The top focus area of IT automation is the spread of infrastructure, disaster recovery, provision of resources, and data protection, each quoted by two-thirds of the executive. The top security initiatives include conducting security testing (68%), implementing Zero Trust policy (65%), updating governance policies (64%), and implementing a security operation center (63%).

It is clear that business leaders lean on their technology team more than before to deliver them to the promised digital land. While investing and dropping the latest technology and the greatest technology to a slow organization will not send miracles overnight, it is the key on the ship and supports cleaning systems and inheritance processes that hinder their ability to reach and serve customers.