Digitalization and the Need for Speed

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In a  previous blog article on the evolution of EA in business transformation, I explored how business leaders face a wickedly complex challenge: responding to frequent, high-impact business threats and opportunities while managing an IT landscape that inevitably becomes more complex due to digitalization.

Compounding this, leaders are under growing pressure to act faster than ever while ensuring compliance and security remain intact.

In this article, we’ll delve deeper into this need for speed and discuss how business and IT leaders can overcome the challenge of delivering greater customer value.

The Pressure to Accelerate

To illustrate, a senior IT leader I recently spoke with outlined ambitious goals:

  • 10x faster rollout of new solutions (90% reduction in elapsed time).
  • 4x productivity improvement (deliver 4x more with the same resources).

This isn’t an unattainable dream. It’s a board-mandated directive to fundamentally transform how the organization operates and evolve transformation of the transformation process itself.

At the core of this transformation? Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI).
Enabling a Digital Backbone
The vision is to create a digital enterprise backbone:

  • Enterprise-wide data management powered by a core set of platforms.
  • Rapid creation and modification of customer-centric digital products.
  • Capabilities aligned to provide a seamless and delightful customer experience.

This aligns with Gartner’s concept of [Composable Capabilities] (insert reference), enabling more agile enterprises.

But achieving this vision demands a connected, end-to-end approach, linking:

  1. Initial ideas to deliver solutions.
  2. Stakeholders across business and technology.
  3. Automation and interoperability throughout the transformation toolchain, from strategy to operational products.

Visibility into existing portfolios (initiatives, capabilities, applications, and data) is vital to aligning efforts, avoiding waste, and resolving conflicts.

Foundational Enablers for Transformation

Key enablers include:

  • A centralized repository is accessible to all users, providing:
    o   Strategic context for initiatives in relation to goals and priorities.
    o   Visibility into existing and planned capabilities.
    o   Insights into impacts on customers, teams, and the IT landscape.
  • AI-driven insights to accelerate decision-making by:
    o   Highlighting existing assets, data quality gaps, standards, and initiatives.
    o   Enabling architects to focus on advisory work rather than manual information gathering.

Architects and AI: Partners in Speed

Architects thrive in adding value where trade-offs and constraints—speed, cost, value, and risk—are at play. AI augments this expertise by:

  1. Assimilating goals, requirements, standards, and patterns to suggest initial solution architectures.
  2. Adjusting designs in real-time with minimal effort as changes arise.
  3. Providing engineers with AI-generated code, expediting deployment through DevOps pipelines.

This isn’t a future vision, it’s happening now.

Closing the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

At Bizzdesign, we tackle the strategy-to-execution gap with a robust framework (see our [Transformation Value Streams graphic]). This approach enables:

  • Drastic acceleration and productivity gains across the transformation value chain.
  • Seamless integration of key activities for holistic, enterprise-wide improvement.

Join the Revolution

We’re on the cusp of an exciting opportunity to redefine transformation. At Bizzdesign, we aim to be your #1 partner, offering:

  • Expertise, resources, and global presence.
  • A truly independent perspective.
  • The best end-to-end enterprise transformation platform to realize this vision.

Stay tuned for future blogs, where we’ll share the capabilities, we’re bringing to market to make this a reality.

Let’s transform together.

About the author:

Nick Reed
Chief Strategy Officer at Bizzdesign

Nick is responsible for value proposition development, building strategic partnerships, and driving innovation topics, including executing Bizzdesign’s ‘buy & build’ acquisition strategy. He has over 25 years of experience in B2B enterprise software and SaaS, dedicating 15 years to enterprise architecture and portfolio management.

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