IT Modernization Archive

Digital transformation: How to beat the funding challenges

In working with CIOs and other senior executives leading digital transformation efforts, the most frequent comment we at Everest Group hear is, “I don’t know how to get this funded.” IT modernization and digital transformation are multiyear journeys that require enormous change to reinvent the business and create new value for customers, employees, and shareholders. Typical transformation initiatives

IT Modernization Journeys Require New Approach To Transformation

Prior to digital transformation to achieve new value creation, many companies undertake IT modernization initiatives to ensure systems can support the digital transformation. IT and shared services groups need to modernize so they can respond more effectively and quickly to the business needs for innovation and competitive advantage. We often find that companies don’t

Companies Must Approach IT Modernization as a Journey

I believe we’re on the doorstep of very important changes in IT market conditions. IT groups have experimented with hybrid cloud, agile and DevOps, and businesses have experimented with analytics and increasingly experiment with AI. Companies are confident they can now move some pilot experiments into programs, knowing they will support the weight of

Digital Dynamics Disrupt Market Winners And Losers

The effects digital transformation reminds me of the beginning words in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” – it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …. One of the interesting aspects of digital transformation is

Technology Influence Pendulum Swinging Back to CIOs

For the past few years, the pendulum for control over technology decisions moved into the business, and the stakeholders other than the CIO gained increasing flexibility to deploy technology. Now we’re seeing a bit of a pendulum swing back towards the CIO’s influence. It isn’t that we’re going back to the days in which

Leadership Tips For Driving IT Modernization and Transformation

Digital transformation and IT modernization initiatives require strong leaders to lead an organization through change – and not just technology and process change. Mindsets, organizational principles and policies, as well as combatting resistance to changing the status quo are major activities in these types of initiatives. Recently, I blogged about a highly successful initiative

The approach to IT modernization at NYU Langone Health

A major, complex modernization initiative provides example of two success factors in managing transformational change. I’ve consulted with and observed many organizations undertaking IT modernization initiatives. An organization that achieved impressive results is NYU Langone Health, the academic medical center at New York University. The initiative started with the vision of the chairman of

Enterprises Mistakenly Conflate Approach To IT Modernization and Digital Transformation

  Two important activities are happening today in IT. One is a requirement to modernize IT. The second is digital transformation. These are the types of initiatives happening now in all enterprises. Both are important. Both drive value. Both prepare IT to make a bigger impact on the business, and both lower costs. But

IT Modernization Investments to Dominate 2018

What are the major areas where companies will focus their spend on technology or third-party services this year? What challenges will impact those investments? In reviewing the trends in 2017, I believe we’ll see more of the same this year and an increase in digital adoption. However, I believe we’re at the beginning stages

IT modernization becoming a major growth driver in IT services

An emerging trend I refer to as IT modernization is garnering significant enterprise IT projects. The last time businesses saw a similar strategy take place was in the shift from mainframes to client-server environments. Here’s my take on the landscape for this new IT strategy along with the implications for services. The strategy begins