Back to: How to Build Pragmatic, Comprehensive & Agile IT Strategy for the Digital Age
Information Technology Function helps organizations to reduce the operational bottlenecks, reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), and drive business value using Technology Solutions and Services.
In today’s Digital Age, there are many drives that can help to define the Agile IT Strategy that must be aligned with Business Strategy and Commercial Objectives.
Change in Technology
Today’s Technology are changing constantly. Adopt New Technology in real-time is very important to be updated in go to market in highly competitive environment and relevance to the market.
Adoption of Open-Source Applications
Avoidance of open-source platforms is very critical for the business. Open-Source Applications are playing a very important role now in Technology Landscape. Now Organizations must evaluate the open-source technologies for both software development and hardware to reduce the expenses and get the high-value benefits.
Cloud Computing
Cloud-First mindset is increasing now to be on Cloud to Improve the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), organizations are moving on Cloud Platforms from On-Premise facilities and adopting Hybrid Cloud Technologies as well. Adopting Different Models to their IT Portfolio like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Choosing the right model following the Business Demands and IT Landscape are very important factors to be considered before Adopting a Cloud Model for organizations.
Social Media
Social Media adoption by customers, suppliers, service providers, and business users is increasing now rapidly and this is the quickest way to share information among (and with) end-users is also very critical in developing an Agile IT Strategy to provide the solution to business problems. Social-media features must be integrated with the IT strategy definition and planning.
Information Security and Privacy
Focus on Information Security and Privacy is extremely important for the organization while building an Agile IT Strategy. Organizations are increasingly forced to decide which threats to guard against the Risk and how much to invest in their safety.
There are many factors such as performance, quality, reliability, and scalability that are the most fundamental aspects to keep the organization running smoothly and securely in the digital age.
Development Methods and Tools
Adopting agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps are helping the organizations to establish the rapid development models that will support you to the Digital Business Transformation.
There are many open-source developments tools are available to fulfill the demands of organizations to adopt such types of open-source applications and tools.
Automation
Different technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality are becoming the key components in an organization’s IT portfolio to build Digital and Agile IT Strategy.
Mobility
The use of Mobile and Mobile Applications by customers, service providers, and business users is increasing now rapidly. To build the agile Strategy, Online and mobility services must be integrated into the business processes to enable easy access and provisioning for all stakeholders.