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THE SILVESTRI GROUP
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY Re-imagine Your IT Digitalization
Thomas Silvestri
3/3/2016
THE SILVESTRI GROUP | Thomas Silvestri, Managing Partner | 3600 N Lake Shore Drive #2608, Chicago, IL. 60613 | [email protected] | www.thomassilvestri.com
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY
Re-imagine Your IT Digitalization
The fast pace of change that is driven by digitalization, the opportunity to experiment with ways to relate
to constituencies via mobile, cloud and analytics, and the chance of testing new business models enabled
by the IoT are at odds with the classic systematic approach to integration. Systematic integration cannot
deliver new, just-in-time integrations (for example, a new API to support a mobile app for clients that
must be released in just a few days) or may not be scalable enough to support the myriad of unplanned
integration flows needed in the context of multiple mobile AD projects, cloud service rollouts, real-time
analytics efforts and IoT initiatives.
Digital Business — A "nonintegrated digital business" is an oxymoron. Digitalization does give
organizations an opportunity to establish personalized and responsive relationships by enabling
"right-time" integration with their constituents via social media, business networks, mobile
applications and APIs.
Bimodal IT — To support the digital era's rapid pace of change, organizations of every size, in every
geography and in every industry are increasingly looking at a two-speed (bimodal) IT strategies
where slowly evolving, "run the business" IT systems (Mode 1) need to coexist and interoperate with
fast-changing and innovative "transform the business" initiatives (Mode 2).
Application Strategies — Often, organizations look at cloud as the primary source of innovation in
business applications and technology platforms — while trying to reduce their IT operation costs.
However, cloud services must be integrated with established, usually on-premises, system-of-record
applications in the context of postmodern application strategies.
Internet of Things — The Internet of Things (IoT) can enable unprecedented degrees of efficiency
and business model innovation. However, it also requires organizations to integrate the new world of
"smart things" and the data they produce with back-end business processes, data and analytical
environments.
Competitive Advantage — Modern technologies (such as social, mobile, analytics, cloud and the
IoT) are easily accessible to any organization, but also to its competitors. They can therefore give
organizations short-term, first-mover benefits; but, alone, cannot help to build a sustainable
competitive advantage. Organizations can, however, maintain differentiation through original, smart
and fast integration of such technologies (see Note 1).
Global Integration — Business relationships are becoming more transient and volatile; therefore,
not only the ability to rapidly integrate, but also to quickly disintegrate is critical. For example, rapidly
disengaging from a supplier to replace it with a more efficient alternative; substituting, with minimal
disruption, a cloud service with a more innovative offering; or switching to alternative IoT devices
can make a big difference from a business perspective.
Privacy — The enormous data governance and the need for data collection on global devices
creates a perfect storm of privacy issues. The millennials generation is producing new data points
THE SILVESTRI GROUP | Thomas Silvestri, Managing Partner | 3600 N Lake Shore Drive #2608, Chicago, IL. 60613 | [email protected] | www.thomassilvestri.com
and data science of analytics to control the opportunity of the global privacy and security through
rigorous availability of the control objects and consumer features localized on global mobile devices.
Cybersecurity —The global expansion of internet IP and related wireless protocols connecting all
points of the systems via the proliferation of mobile devices has cause for alarm amongst security
experts. The rapid deployment in the response to the prosumers increasing consumption for mobile
internet, video, and live streaming has developed security opportunities for hackers. The company for
profit motive drives the security of systems ever increasing the periphery of the systematic security
threats across the global spectrum to evade the cost benefits of upgrading and ultimately addressing
the fact of their critical network systems and policies are under a 24/7 cyber threat.