| |May 201819CIOReviewechnology is going to become an even more integral part of our daily lives and we're al-ready part of `cyborg', the first and last thing we do every minute is to look for smart phone and intelligent tools make us more productive and are part of our lives. The job of the CIO is evolving now, for years, The Chief Information Of-ficer (CIO) has been into Implemen-tation of IT Strategy, purchasing of Hardware's/Software's, Managing IT Infrastructure & Security etc.As digitalization and innovation take center stage and Digital busi-ness has created a greater ability for change, The Digital Revolution af-fects both organizations and individ-uals. CIOs need to adapt to changing technology and more open attitude towards differentiating themselves by delivering a differentiated inter-nal and external customer experience through a `Digital First' approach. MDs, CEOs are under tremendous pressure to move towards digital and get their transformation projects right, failures to do so can lead to cus-tomer dis-satisfaction, business losses and competition will take the advan-tage. In this scenario IT partners can help and turn potential failure into resounding success. Before you venture into creating your digital workforce, it's impor-tant to take a step back and evalu-ate the skills gap in your origination and identify skills your organization needs, build talent intelligence. CIOs have to understand the functions they support to rapidly put up not only applications and infrastructure but also to upgrade their infrastruc-ture and move towards Digital. They need to transform business processes in the manner that digital transforma-tion demands and organizations first need to gain complete end-to-end visibility into them, the systems that support them to grow and the people to have a new set of skills to deal with the digital transformation journey.In the journey to IT moderniza-tion and this rapid pace of change means organizations have a fast-narrowing window of opportunity to prepare for the future. CIO needs to enable new business models and/or striving for superior process effi-ciency while controlling costs and has to become more deeply involved in a technology and must innovate faster than ever before to succeed in this fast paced and disruptive environment.`The Man of Digital Futurist' dig-itizing their business processes and backend systems to provide a better experience to their customers and enable their teams to improve opera-tional efficiency through automation. The new wave of technology, such as AI, AR, IoT, Blockchains, Cloud and Business Intelligence looming large as the major technologies to embrace and exploit, it's critical for IT profes-sionals to identify and act on.`As-a-service' offered a new way for IT and the business. This service models are an excellent alternative to capex models. These new initiatives from IT Service Partners and dif-ferent service features with a device and they work for a variety of differ-ent data center assets such as servers, storage, networks, and converged or cloud-based infrastructures.CIO need to cultivate a Digitalist mindset ­ one that assimilates tech-nology into the current social and business context, to continuously de-liver new-age problem solving ideas. It has been estimated that by 2020, robotic automation and artificial in-telligence will be responsible for a net loss of more than 5 million jobs across 15 developed nations. At the same time, we see reports that 6 mil-lion cybersecurity jobs are globally left unfilled (Source: Garner). CIO must strive to deliver consistently, a great experience to their customers with this it will help us them to con-tinue winning market share and ac-celerate progress to make them `The Man of Digital Futurist'. CIOBy Anis Pankhania, Head IT, VodafoneAnis has 21 years of rich experience in leading the complete Information Security, Infrastructure Management, Digitization, Application Development & Management, Program/Project Management, IT Network & Data Center Operations, Telecom Circle/Corporate/Business Operations, etc.- THE MAN OF DIGITAL FUTURISTTAnis Pankhania
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