IDC South Africa CIO Summit

While COVID-19 has disrupted every element of global business, it has also demonstrated the critical importance of digital transformation. As the journey from crisis to recovery gets underway, the enablement of a Future Enterprise must be the end goal for any successful business. Building business resilience, creating real-time intelligence, and fueling innovation are all essential for enabling the future enterprise platform, but data and trust also have a vital role to play in enabling an .. continue reading organization's survival. Today, organizations are primarily consumers of packaged software aaa€sA¬" and most of that is focused on automating their own operations. Their ability to produce software-based digital innovations at a rapidly increasingly scale and pace aaa€sA¬" essential for sustainably competing in the digital economy aaa€sA¬" is severely limited by traditional software, tools, skills, methodologies, supplier relationships, and distribution/partner models. This session will explore how enterprises can become major producers of software-based digital services for their own customers and markets as well as consumers of software for their own operations. It will explain how they can transform themselves into software-driven digital innovation factories with a genuine and sustainable competitive advantage.