A leap from Information Technology to Business Technology


A-leap-from-Information-Technology-to-Business-Technology A leap from Information Technology to Business Technology

Information technology is the catalyst for business strategy and transformation. The gap between business and technology functions is clouding and the expectations of IT have shifted, many organizations already started to reimagine the role of technology and rethink traditional operating models and organizational structures.

Information technology drives innovation which is the path to business success. In other words, it’s hard to imagine any business that has not benefited from the digital revolution. And this spans across each and every industry. Nowadays the formula for business success is simple; drive innovation with information technology.

Now the question is how we can link Information technology to business technology…

Business technology is a strategy for organizing and coordinating technology management across the entire enterprise. It is a set of management practices, tools, organizational structures, and technology governance designed to ensure that the use of technology is optimized across the organization with the overarching aim of satisfying customer needs and expectations.

Most businesses understand that they need to challenge not only their competitors but also themselves in order to constantly improve their customer’s view and their ability to meet market demand.

Digital Transformation itinerary:

The Digital transformation plan defines the technology-enabled aspirations, mission, and vision of the business and serves as the foundation of a joint business–technology strategy.

Roger Martin published an article on HBR with the title Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially and he has mentioned his “cascading choices” framework for strategy he used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in the 2013 book called Playing to Win Using Roger Martin’s Strategy Choice Cascade as a guide, businesses can create a transformation agenda and business–technology strategy

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source: CIO Insider

You’ll Learn:

  1. What is Information Technology & business technology?
  2. Transitioning from Information Technology strategy to Business Technology strategy
  3. What are the rudiments of a business technology approach to digital transformation?
  4. What are the approaches to designing a Business Technology strategy?
  5. Digital Transformation itinerary

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