The barriers to digital transformation
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 5:58 am
The one thing that changed significantly this year was the absolute priorities for digital transformation. But not everything. Cost is still way down the list at 9%. Culture, speed, and experience are in the same general range. However, innovation and security have swapped places this year, with security now one notch higher than last year’s seven notches. Innovation is still a priority, as evidenced by its close second place in this survey and other studies. For example, Red Hat’s “The State of Enterprise Open Source 2022” report found that ensuring organizations have access to the latest innovations is one of the key benefits of enterprise open source software.
However, given the attention being paid to security, and the real financial and reputational risks that data breaches, ransomware, and other security-related failures pose, it should come as no surprise that security has become a slightly more important consideration.
have not changed significantly over the past couple of years: Lack of skills or talent ranks first, followed by integration issues, technical debt, and security or regulatory gaps/risks.
There’s a lot of talk about the talent shortage in IT and georgia mobile database fields. What’s often less clear is what strategies companies are using to do something about it. The Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study, “2022 Digital Transformation Refocused: New Goals Require New Strategies,” found that upskilling/training is not a top business goal for most organizations for the next year; it’s one of the least mentioned priorities among respondents, at 14%. What’s more, nearly a third of respondents (31%) disagree that their organization is a leader in providing training to employees to improve or upgrade their skills for the future.
The 2023 Global Tech Outlook paints an arguably more optimistic picture. While digital transformation was the top priority for non-IT funding, it was followed by technical/tech/process skills training. When combined, these training categories collectively outpace digital transformation.
While it is always reasonable to doubt that funding priorities will be respected when allocating money and time, at least there is recognition that employee development must be a priority.
Companies are investing in digital transformation — whatever that means to them in the context of their own businesses. Most are nowhere near declaring victory, and the reality is that they probably never will (and shouldn’t). There are always new processes to streamline and new technologies to integrate. But most of all, it requires people. And in some ways, that’s an even bigger challenge today.
However, given the attention being paid to security, and the real financial and reputational risks that data breaches, ransomware, and other security-related failures pose, it should come as no surprise that security has become a slightly more important consideration.
have not changed significantly over the past couple of years: Lack of skills or talent ranks first, followed by integration issues, technical debt, and security or regulatory gaps/risks.
There’s a lot of talk about the talent shortage in IT and georgia mobile database fields. What’s often less clear is what strategies companies are using to do something about it. The Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study, “2022 Digital Transformation Refocused: New Goals Require New Strategies,” found that upskilling/training is not a top business goal for most organizations for the next year; it’s one of the least mentioned priorities among respondents, at 14%. What’s more, nearly a third of respondents (31%) disagree that their organization is a leader in providing training to employees to improve or upgrade their skills for the future.
The 2023 Global Tech Outlook paints an arguably more optimistic picture. While digital transformation was the top priority for non-IT funding, it was followed by technical/tech/process skills training. When combined, these training categories collectively outpace digital transformation.
While it is always reasonable to doubt that funding priorities will be respected when allocating money and time, at least there is recognition that employee development must be a priority.
Companies are investing in digital transformation — whatever that means to them in the context of their own businesses. Most are nowhere near declaring victory, and the reality is that they probably never will (and shouldn’t). There are always new processes to streamline and new technologies to integrate. But most of all, it requires people. And in some ways, that’s an even bigger challenge today.