DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IS NOT ABOUT DIGITAL

We have been talking about digital transformation for quite a while now. As CIOs, we should seize the opportunity to help our companies find new digital ways and thus find new growth paths. Our last venue, CORDA Campus, was therefore the ideal place to fuel the discussion once more. Their tech start-ups are impacting business models, sometimes even disrupting the competition. What can we learn from these entrepreneurs? Never stop innovating and disrupting yourselves, for starters. As one of the starters said: “Shut up and start-up”.

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AUTOMATION VIA COGNITIVE COMPUTING

Last year, robotics largely dominated Gartner’s top ten of predictions for 2016. The desire to connect and interact with computers in a more natural, frictionless way is indeed becoming overwhelming. Since ‘The Second Machine Age’, it has hit the public’s consciousness that robots will soon compete with humans. “The big change is speed and the advancement of the technologies we know about”, says Paul Chong, Director EMEA for IBM’s Watson Group. “That’s something we have to be mindful for as corporations.”

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: FROM KEEP UP TO STEP UP

Every year, the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource compile the billion dollar start-up club. In 2014, it had 43 members with Dropbox topping the list at a 10 billion dollar market value. One year later, the club comprised 130 companies and Uber led the bunch with a $ 51 billion valuation. And 4 months into 2016, the number stands at 146. That’s the pace at which digital disruptors are growing. Significant new economic value is being created over very short periods.

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THE MAGIC MOSTLY HAPPENS FAR FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE

As an outlook for the remainder of the year, we had Global Perspectives as our first 2016 event earlier this month. Perspectives to look ahead, and find out what you need to do to stay ahead of the pack, what your organization needs to do to avoid disruption. Thanks to Moore’s law, computing power has evolved exponentially over the last few decades. However, we are currently in the second phase, where exponential really kicks off.

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We worden een beetje moe van de stelling dat CIO’s die bezig zijn met hoe IT moet gerund worden er niet toe doen

Dit artikel werd op 30/11/2015 gepubliceerd in Datanews, als reactie op een opiniestuk van Peter Hinssen “De meest radicale innovatieve cio’s bollen het gewoon af”.

Beste Peter,
Graag willen we reageren op je opiniestuk ‘de meest radicale CIO’s bollen het gewoon af‘ dat verscheen in Datanews op 23 november 2015 jongstleden. Laat ons onmiddellijk met de deur in huis vallen: We worden een beetje moe van je stelling dat CIO’s die bezig zijn met HOE IT moet gerund worden er niet toe doen en zichzelf uitrangeren. In Nederland hebben ze voor zo’n stelling een mooi woord: geneuzel. In Vlaanderen zeggen we gewoon…. flauwekul.

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