CIOs Have Tiger by the Tail | Sadin on Digital

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li><strong>The economy is opening up:</strong> Are you ready? Businesses are developing new ways to delight customers and the federal government is about pump more capital into the market.</li><li><strong>Invest in capabilities to win:</strong> Cloud, ERP/CRM, collaboration tools, networks (5G/Starlink/SD-WAN), and teleoperations (AR/robotics/low-latency networks).</li><li><strong>How do you budget for IT?</strong> Old: Centralized as a fixed number percentage of sales. New: Business-unit led with tech purchases seen as *business investments* rather than “IT spending.”</li><li><strong>The ability to move faster is a hallmark of true digital transformation:</strong> It’s far more important that CEO/CFO/BoD unshackles the IT investment process than investing in any specific thing.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Big Quotes:</p><p>“So the worst outcome is we’ve got a tiger by the tail and they're multiple tigers running off in multiple directions.”</p><p> </p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p><p> </p><p> </p>