Digital Organizational Design for Strategic Value

This IDC Perspective discusses how today's CIO faces unparalleled pressure to transform not only their organization but how the business of IT operates to bring strategic value. How we organize the digital functions and how our teams work in the ecosystem of the business and the industry can make or break not only our success as a CIO but the success of our organization. The new and critical imperative for the CIO of the future is to deliver strategic value. We must urgently move away from traditional structures that no longer serve our strategy and build a digital function that is responsive and effective."The need to be intentional on what needs to be different is a critical touchstone for digital organization design," says Alizabeth Calder, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP)."Gone are the days when we can make modest structure changes or do tweaks. We must bring foresight to the business of IT, to serve for today and where the digital capability and investment need to go. We must be proactive, helping the rest of the C-suite see the next and future risks and opportunities. We owe our peers insight and action to elevate the investment and risk conversations for the next level of strategic value for the business. If we don't provide a clear strategy for future value, we will be stuck responding to what our peers think they know rather than being active participants enabling strategic value."