In the digital age of transformation, the environment is rapidly changing to meet the demands of businesses and consumers. Companies must meet the growth of the digital age or face failure; by doing so, technology innovation leaders become an important asset at the executive level. Business leaders or technology leaders must adapt and change just as the organization would, being able to anticipate and prepare to support increasing innovation and technology demands on a wide scale. Technology leaders must foster collaboration among key stakeholders (i.e., business leaders, IT teams, and subject matter experts). Teamwork is important when aligning the architectural shift to the business objectives and addressing critical pain points. Facilitating pilot projects and proof of concepts to demonstrate the value and feasibility of the architectural focus will be necessary to help meet stakeholders’ resistance by building their confidence. Executive leader will need to buy-in on the direction and decision to support such changes that will improve the organizations’ ability to adapt and react for any circumstance.

For many reasons, businesses operate from legacy systems and technological constraints that can increase risk within information systems. Technology innovation leaders must address the challenges of integrating and modernizing legacy systems while balancing the need for innovation to maintain business continuity. Knowing how to adapt legacy systems to support new standards and industry practices is a challenge, but it is necessary to evolve such systems to ensure organizational growth, change, and trust. How technology leaders address today’s problems will affect future decisions.

Gartner’s Leadership characteristics that support adaptability and resilience within organizations:

• Harness the expertise and ingenuity of all employees by democratizing technology delivery.
• Asses the digital scaling potential of “game-changing” technologies.
• Apply combinatorial innovation to identify new opportunities.
• Partner with business technologists and create fusion teams for enterprise-level use cases.
• Redirect resources by utilizing job-to-be-done.
• Unleash digital channels by adopting a disciplined digital product management approach.
• Reach beyond technology to actively sense and respond to disruptions and anticipate change.

 

Resources:

Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Leaders Primer for 2022. (2022, February 4). Gartner. Retrieved June 24, 2023, from https://www.gartner.com/document/4010113?ref=d-linkShare

Leadership Vision for 2022: Technology Innovation. (2021, August 12). Gartner. Retrieved June 24, 2023, from https://www.gartner.com/document/4004633?ref=d-linkShare