DECEMBER 2023CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM8y conceptualizing a combination of Enterprise Architecture and Digital Service Platform,will not only empower organizations ability towards agility and disruptive innovation, this will also strengthen the position to become a frontier in Digital Transformation.To master digital transformation as a corporation, we need to excel in both technology adoption as well as digital leadership. Corporations struggle to define their digital vision and future opportunities. Often we start to explore through Proof Of Concepts in silos, or based on existing enterprise legacy IT infrastructure. Most of these PoCs are executed by external resources without domain knowledge. Not seldom this leads to failure or slow progress for many reasons including inability to absorb and retain the learning and knowledge created.If an organization want's to adopt future relevant digital technologies, it must understand that digital transformation is not only about redoing the same things we already do but with new technologies, whereas, it is all about using new technologies to do things in new ways:· Optimizing and personalizing customer interaction & experiences· Creating New Revenue streams based on New business models· Disrupting internal processes and providing operation excellence· Exploring new Ecosystems to find relevance in adjacent and new business areasTo explore new innovative opportunities, corporations need to build internal leadership to explore opportunities in multiple concept development sprints, be prepared to adopt new eco-systems and onboard new customer segments. Exploration needs WITH CHANGED ROLE DEFINITION THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTS, BECOMES THE NEW HEROES TO ENABLE A SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONBULF AXELSSON LEJON, VP DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION, HUSQVARNA GROUPIN MYOPINIONto involve start-up ecosystems and academia to ensure innovation, speed and relevance in future technology and business model adoption. This exploration needs to be done while ensuring cyber security, fulfill privacy regulation and ability to scale. Without a clear digital service platform vision and strategy,digital initiatives will either fail or end-up in lock-in effects which does not provide full value to the organization.To enable your corporation for the Digital Transformation,it is instrumental that we early-on establish a cloud based digital service platform, which is loosely coupled to the enterprise legacy IT landscape. It is also important to understand that a digital service platform is not equal to an IoT platform, which normally only manage the connectivity and aspects related to analytics on collected data. To cover all aspects of Digital Transformation, the digital service platform additionally needs to cover areas such as (but not limited to) customer management, device identification, content management, agreements and consent, subscription, payments, open APIs, advanced business analytics, AI frameworks, etc.There are four main pillars to ensure solid foundation for the platform:· Micro Services Architecture with open APIs to ensure partnership, eco-systems and crowd innovation.· Cloud based solutioning (containerizing on public cloud) to ensure scalability, speed in implementation,agility in adoption, and independence in technology choices to be able to migrate between cloud providers.· Internet Of Things, to connect everything and ensure quality data capturing, intelligent products and enabling new business models such Ulf Axelsson Lejon
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