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\What is Digital Transformation - Answer: Digital Transformation puts technology
at the heart of an organization's products, services and operations -to help
accelerate the business and competitively differentiate itself -in order to improve
the experience for its customers. This is achieved through the use of smarter
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products, data analytics and continuous improvement of products and services
through the use of software.
Name 4 influences of Digital Transformation - Answer: Uber has disrupted the
transportation industry without owning any vehicles themselves.
Facebook has changed the rules for the media industry without owning any
content.
Alibaba has rewritten the rules of e-commerce, and they do not own any
inventory.
Similarly Airbnb is threatening established hotel chains without owning any real
estate themselves.
5 type of businesses and their digital paths. - Answer: Digital Leaders: 5% -digital
transformation, in its various forms, is ingrained in the DNA of the business
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Digital Adopters: 14% -have a mature digital plan, investments, and innovations in
place
Digital Evaluators: 34% -cautiously and gradually embracing digital transformation,
planning and investing for the future
Digital Followers: 32% -few digital investments; tentatively starting to plan for the
future
Digital Laggards: 15% -do not have a digital plan, limited initiatives, and
investments in place
6 Challenges of IT to meet business demand - Answer: Data Growth
Aging Technology
Growth
Poor Scale, performance, security
Shadow IT
Financial Pressure.
Key Attributes for IT to transform? - Answer: Strategic business partner
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Service-centric
Manage supply and demand of services
Build products & services that support business objectives
Cultivate line of business relationship
What does cloud computing enable? - Answer: unlimited & dynamic IT resources
reduces costs
facilitate rapid business change
What is cloud computing? - Answer: "a model for enabling convenient, on-
demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources
e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services; that can be rapidly