Creating Your Digital Strategy

• Data Producer – generate data from IoT and traditional big data sources (i.e. business applications, social media, websites, open sources, financial transactions, surveys, censuses, and digitized hard copies);
• Data Aggregator/Custodian – provide data normalization services that enables data collection from heterogeneous devices and efficient data distribution; 
• Platform Owner – provide application programming interfaces (APIs) for connectivity and ecosystem device discovery; 
• Insight Provider – design and development of the semantic models, analytics libraries and machine learning techniques necessary for taking efficient and effective action based on data; or 
• Data Presenter – make complex and large datasets easy for business users to consume. They also allow consumers to have intuitive access to the underlying data and its derivatives.

• Executing processes on a resilient digital platform that’s secure, available on demand and easy to set up and use; 
• Offering anytime, anywhere digital insights, driven by analytics; 
• Creating a digital workforce platform of connected workers, using advanced monitoring, search and analytics tools; and 
• Proactively managing a digital innovation ecosystem comprising multiple partners to incorporate the latest technologies.

 

1. Select the right digital economy role for your company’s business future; 
2. Design implementation steps that align with the four strategic pillars of digital strategy execution; and 
3. Reconfiguring corporate front and back office operations in ways that take advantage of microservices and serverless computing.

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