{"id":22738,"date":"2016-05-31T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T02:41:14","slug":"active-digital-transformation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/05\/31\/active-digital-transformation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"IT should be more active in digital transformation: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IT and non-IT executives agree that the IT department should play a more active role in digital transformation, reveals a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by SAP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitising-it.eiu.com\/\"><i>Digitising IT<\/i><\/a> is based on a multinational survey of over 800 senior executives, 50% of which are IT leaders, drawn from a range of industries. The study reveals a distinct lack of strategic co-ordination around digital transformation, and considerable variance in the way digital initiatives are led and managed.<\/p>\n<p>The CIO is the most likely C-suite executive to own digital transformation, for example, but digital initiatives are more likely to be led by business departments (29%) than the IT function (22%).<\/p>\n<p>However, there is consensus among executives that the IT department should play a more active role in a number of capabilities that support digital transformation. For example, just 7% of all executives say their IT department plays a leadership role in identifying opportunities for innovation but 35% believe it should.<\/p>\n<p>IT departments have already begun to adapt in order to support digital transformation, and almost half (45%) of non-IT executives say their IT department has changed the way it works completely or significantly to support digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p>But the survey indicates limited adoption of methodologies, such as Agile development (17%) or DevOps (15%), that are designed to make IT more responsive to the needs of digital business.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Swabey, the editor of the report, said: \u201cThe fact that IT executives agree that their department should play a more active role in digital transformation shows that they do not lack the desire or ambition to do so. A number of important responsibilities prevent IT from focusing entirely on digital innovation. Nevertheless, the limited level adoption of Agile and DevOps suggests a degree of inertia that few companies have the time to indulge in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT and non-IT executives agree that the IT department should play a more active role in digital transformation, reveals a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by SAP. Digitising IT is based on a multinational survey of over 800 senior executives, 50% of which are IT leaders, drawn from a range of industries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2294,435,4407],"class_list":["post-22738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-digital-transformation","tag-sap","tag-the-economist-intelligence-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}