Digital investments are usually justified on ROI from efficiencies, compliance or added revenue. The flywheel effect reduces friction and increases pace as investments build on one another. The edge may evaporate for companies that wait, so think beyond immediate gains.
Excitement over AI often runs ahead of identifying the needs and opportunities where it could be used. A practical approach first categorizes high-volume tasks by AI feasibility, then analyzes the economic return. Targeting areas where AI complements or supersedes human effort is where the efficiencies appear.
Top-down digital transformation plans are not always feasible or palatable for leadership. A bottom-up path automates the duties of open jobs, turning vacancies into a starting point for innovation. Organizations that adopt it can maintain or even build their competitive edge.
Founder Jeff Roberts presented a webinar on Innovation Vista's approach and framework for assessing IT platforms and organizations. The webinar provides a framework that CXO business executives can use to assess the IT function at their own organization.
Enterprise CIOs juggle everything from IT operations to AI, so it is hard to know where to spend time. That is especially true for new CIOs and when fires are burning. Outside thinking, targeted experience or extra bandwidth can help CIOs plan complex technology transformation.
Covid raised IT's profile to levels never seen before, and CEOs now feel better about its enabling impact. Departments unprepared for the surge saw changes in leadership, funding or both. Look to your IT leaders for real enhancements to the business model, not just basic capabilities or efficiencies.
Business executives, and even some CIOs, often see the help desk as a necessity with limited impact potential. That attitude drives a mindset of cost control. If your service desk was hit by the great resignation, consider what you give up by not fully restaffing it.
Preparing the annual IT budget is work many tech leaders dread, even as a percentage change on last year. Two types of IT costs call for two different mindsets. A framework for surfacing ideas for innovation capital helps you grasp this exciting time of innovation and transformation.
Mid-market IT leaders know the meeting where every department head argues for their project to top the roadmap. The problem is not the projects but the process for choosing between them. A common framework with a transparent score moves the discussion to the right sequence for maximum impact.
Business executives set the IT bar too low because they lack the time and background to focus on technology. Without context on what is possible, they struggle to set or push for a vision of its full impact. IT leaders set the bar too low as well.
Founder Jeff Roberts was interviewed by Corey Prator, founder of Consortium Partners, about Innovation Vista's purpose and approach. The conversation explores how the firm helps leaders broaden their minds on the business potential of IT.
Paying by the drink beats buying a bottle when a bottle is beyond your means, and so it is with Virtual CIOs. For organizations with high needs and IT complexity but limited budgets, it brings in the right wine. The post also explains why its case studies are anonymous.
