DIMENSION DATA UNVEILS DIGITAL ENTERPRISE CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL TO HELP BUSINESSES NAVIGATE THE ‘EXPONENTIAL DIGITAL SOCIAL WORLD’
Announcement posted by Dimension Data Australia 08 Aug 2017
Sydney, Australia – 8 August 2017 – Dimension Data, the USD 7.4 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, has launched a first-of-its-kind model to enable businesses to assess their digital enterprise capability and create an effective roadmap for its digital transformation.
Contained within a new e-book providing executive guidance, titled The Exponential Digital Social World and authored by Dimension Data Australia Chief Technology Officer, Debra Bordignon, the Dimension Data Digital Enterprise Capability Maturity Model guides organisations on how to audit and assess their current digital capabilities, define their target state, conduct benchmarking, and map a clear pathway of transition for their business and stakeholders. The framework can also be used to construct digital balance sheet reporting.
Ms Bordignon said leaders across all industries lack tools and models for a cohesive strategy and execution, and so approaches are often piecemeal, falling short of what is required to flourish in the digital social era. For organisations with an analogue heritage, Ms Bordignon said it is critical to master the shifts in stakeholder expectations, generational changes, business models and advancing technology.
“IT leaders are scrambling to understand which strategic assets and capabilities they need to bridge analogue and digital worlds. They want to know how to take the culture and business models associated with dynamic start-ups and bring them into mature enterprises,” said Ms Bordignon. “Naturally, organisations want to protect their existing assets, but as the drivers of value change, they need to re-evaluate portfolios against a 21st century digital balance sheet.”
The Dimension Data digital balance sheet is based on analysis of the transformation projects carried out by the company’s S&P500 clients, the Government sector, education, not-for-profit and public health sectors. The balance sheet represents seven top level strategic capabilities driving business value – stakeholder experience, information value, portfolio development, smarter processes, business models, people and culture, and technology fabric. Across each capability, Dimension Data proposes five maturity levels which extend the balance sheet into the digital enterprise capability maturity model.
Dimension Data has been actively applying this model with its clients with promising results.
For Ms Bordignon, the first step towards a successful digital transformation is making organisations ‘platformed’ for success – ensuring they are ready to connect their people, machines and data to successfully leverage the technological shifts that are re-shaping business, government and society, and playing out in our homes, schools, hospitals, cars, shopping centres and factories.
“Our lives at work, at home, and socially are forever changed by the ubiquitous digital atmosphere,” said Ms Bordignon. “A successful digital transformation agenda reflects this understanding and pushes the business to look to the ‘beyond’ horizon of innovation.
“To achieve this, organisations must focus on four groups of technologies we believe are nearing exponential breakthroughs and will be the most impactful in the next five years – artificial intelligence and robotics; virtual and augmented reality, and the human/machine interface; nanotechnology and 3D/4D printing; and cybersecurity and blockchain.”
Click here to download Dimension Data’s The Exponential Digital Social World e-Book.
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Twitter: @dimensiondata
LinkedIn: Dimension Data
www.dimensiondata.com/digitalworkplacereport
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data believes technology helps organisations achieve great things. As a member of the NTT Group, we accelerate our clients’ ambitions through digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, digital workplace, and cybersecurity. With a turnover of USD 7.4 billion, offices in more than 50 countries, and more than 30,000 employees, we deliver wherever our clients are at every stage of their technology journeys. We’re proud to be the Official Technology Partner of Amaury Sport Organisation, which organises the Tour de France, and the title partner of the cycling team, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka. Visit us at http://www.dimensiondata.com.
Contained within a new e-book providing executive guidance, titled The Exponential Digital Social World and authored by Dimension Data Australia Chief Technology Officer, Debra Bordignon, the Dimension Data Digital Enterprise Capability Maturity Model guides organisations on how to audit and assess their current digital capabilities, define their target state, conduct benchmarking, and map a clear pathway of transition for their business and stakeholders. The framework can also be used to construct digital balance sheet reporting.
Ms Bordignon said leaders across all industries lack tools and models for a cohesive strategy and execution, and so approaches are often piecemeal, falling short of what is required to flourish in the digital social era. For organisations with an analogue heritage, Ms Bordignon said it is critical to master the shifts in stakeholder expectations, generational changes, business models and advancing technology.
“IT leaders are scrambling to understand which strategic assets and capabilities they need to bridge analogue and digital worlds. They want to know how to take the culture and business models associated with dynamic start-ups and bring them into mature enterprises,” said Ms Bordignon. “Naturally, organisations want to protect their existing assets, but as the drivers of value change, they need to re-evaluate portfolios against a 21st century digital balance sheet.”
The Dimension Data digital balance sheet is based on analysis of the transformation projects carried out by the company’s S&P500 clients, the Government sector, education, not-for-profit and public health sectors. The balance sheet represents seven top level strategic capabilities driving business value – stakeholder experience, information value, portfolio development, smarter processes, business models, people and culture, and technology fabric. Across each capability, Dimension Data proposes five maturity levels which extend the balance sheet into the digital enterprise capability maturity model.
Dimension Data has been actively applying this model with its clients with promising results.
For Ms Bordignon, the first step towards a successful digital transformation is making organisations ‘platformed’ for success – ensuring they are ready to connect their people, machines and data to successfully leverage the technological shifts that are re-shaping business, government and society, and playing out in our homes, schools, hospitals, cars, shopping centres and factories.
“Our lives at work, at home, and socially are forever changed by the ubiquitous digital atmosphere,” said Ms Bordignon. “A successful digital transformation agenda reflects this understanding and pushes the business to look to the ‘beyond’ horizon of innovation.
“To achieve this, organisations must focus on four groups of technologies we believe are nearing exponential breakthroughs and will be the most impactful in the next five years – artificial intelligence and robotics; virtual and augmented reality, and the human/machine interface; nanotechnology and 3D/4D printing; and cybersecurity and blockchain.”
Click here to download Dimension Data’s The Exponential Digital Social World e-Book.
-ENDS-
Twitter: @dimensiondata
LinkedIn: Dimension Data
www.dimensiondata.com/digitalworkplacereport
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data believes technology helps organisations achieve great things. As a member of the NTT Group, we accelerate our clients’ ambitions through digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, digital workplace, and cybersecurity. With a turnover of USD 7.4 billion, offices in more than 50 countries, and more than 30,000 employees, we deliver wherever our clients are at every stage of their technology journeys. We’re proud to be the Official Technology Partner of Amaury Sport Organisation, which organises the Tour de France, and the title partner of the cycling team, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka. Visit us at http://www.dimensiondata.com.