With many organisations now having completed their move to cloud, some may be wondering what’s next for digital transformation. Successfully migrating some or all workloads to the cloud doesn’t mean an organisation’s digital transformation is complete. It’s essential for organisations to continue down the path of adaptation to ensure agility and gaining of continuous value from ever-evolving cloud platforms and infrastructure assets, according to Intergen.
Joe Newton, principal solution specialist, Intergen, said, “Organisations are continuing to operate in an uncertain environment with no guarantee of what will happen tomorrow. By adopting a controlled and methodical approach to operating platforms with modern managed service organisations, businesses can ensure their platforms and technology investments are well managed, reliable, and resilient.”
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The four keys to winning the digital transformation race are: people, technology, data and creativity. Knowing how to leverage these is the difference between "doing digital" and doing digital well.
When the starting shot goes off at a road race, a small group of runners will usually fire onto the course, pushing to get to the head of the pack as quickly as possible. Behind them, the more level-paced runners roll out their race strategy phase by phase, recognizing the need to speed or slow down to stay in contention. The race to digital transformation is somewhat similar.
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“All great changes are preceded by chaos,” wrote Indian-American author Deepak Chopra. This is especially true today, as a global pandemic was succeeded by great technological innovations.
Governments had to gather their bearings, pivot quickly, and use technology to come up with new services. This has highlighted the need for a tech-savvy, agile civil service.
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The public sector is changing and evolving, and there has been a constant need for economic development that can build smart, safe and sustainable cities of the future.
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this need even more and has become a catalyst for a post-pandemic technology-driven world — a new tomorrow where a hyperconnected city with a data-led approach provides safer living and healthier and more informed communities. The pandemic has become a stress test for safety, transportation, energy efficiency, economic development and operating expenses. Cities face mounting pressures to keep the offices open and provide business continuity.
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According to the latest development report digital which the United Nations has just published, the region shows progress in this regard. “The pandemic Covid-19 has presented policymakers at all levels of government with unprecedented challenges in responding to the critical needs of their countries. The results of the 2020 Survey are encouraging and show a significant acceptance of digital services in different geographic regions, countries and cities. Data-centric and e-participation approaches have been improved, and the focus on digital capacity building has increased. However, progress faces new and existing challenges and risks, such as cybersecurity and data privacy. Some considerations are especially urgent or important in developing countries, including countries in special situations. These include the lack of digital infrastructures, sustainable E-Government platforms, and limited resources to implement digital government policies. Although E-Government has reached sophistication in leading countries, digitization is still relatively new on the national agendas of some countries ” express Liu Zhenmin Undersecretary General Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations.
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