{"id":133621,"date":"2018-06-22T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=133621"},"modified":"2018-06-21T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:52:09","slug":"3-takeaways-companies-move-doing-digital-being-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2018\/06\/3-takeaways-companies-move-doing-digital-being-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"3 takeaways to help companies move from \u201cdoing digital\u201d to \u201cbeing digital\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.7″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]What it meant to be a \u201cdigital company\u201d ten, or even five, years ago, is completely different from what it means today, and into the future. Based on a thought-provoking forum held, organised by the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, on Strategic Digital Leadership, we outline three learnings from that session.<\/p>\n

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For its ninth staging of its annual roundtable, which was on the theme, Strategic Digital Leadership, the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica campus), invited a wide cross-section of Jamaican business leaders to a breakfast forum held yesterday 21 June 2018. The speakers, who were from the private sector, academia, policy and regulation, all agreed on the pervasiveness of technology, and the need for organisations to not only embrace technology, but to position themselves to harness it as a tool to aid their strategic transformation and continues relevance.
\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”133632,133630,133629,133637,133631,133636,133623,133634,133633,133628,133635″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.8″ max_width=”45%” module_alignment=”center”][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.7″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]The presentations highlighted many global and local (Jamaica-based) tech trends, plus the results of global and local surveys on digital leadership. The presenters also shared \u00a0some recent initiatives that organisations have implemented that have helped them to become more efficient and effective, by more fully embracing technology and adapting it to their needs. However, ultimately, the purpose of the forum was to help businesses get a better understanding of what they should be doing to improve their strategic digital leadership. We have thus tried to distil the nearly four hours of discussions into the following three takeaways.<\/p>\n

The role of the CIO and how businesses interact with technology has changed<\/h3>\n

Larry Quinlan, Global Chief Information Officer of Deloitte<\/a>, highlighted the changing role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The post, CIO is relatively new, but has evolved from the Data Processing Manager position of the 1970s, and the Director of IT of the 1980, where the individual would be a glorified technician or IT manager. However, the CIO role has evolved to the point where he or she is guardian of an organisation’s\u00a0 digital strategy, and must deliver on five priorities:<\/p>\n