A practical guide for business and IT executives to navigate digital transformation and orchestrate an effective IT value chain.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, business and IT executives must collaborate to strengthen strategic advantages, capture new markets, and leverage disruptive technologies. This book provides a clear roadmap for professionals seeking to digitize their company's business model, enhance agility and innovation, and foster proactive IT strategies. It offers actionable principles and practices to connect business and IT teams, adopt shared belief systems and business models, converge technology life cycles, and increase the effectiveness of the digital value chain.
- Understand the principles of digital transformation
- Connect business and IT teams for strategic advantage
- Adopt shared belief systems and business models
- Leverage disruptive technologies for value creation
- Increase agility and innovation in IT strategies
Digital Manifesto is for business-savvy technologists and business executives leading digitalization initiatives, offering a practical guide to thrive in the new digital era.
Francois Zielemans has over 20 years of IT management and international consulting experience. He is currently an IT executive responsible for the solution engineering business unit of the Centric organization, a European IT provider that delivers infrastructure and software solutions for a variety of markets. While planning and executing digitalization and other projects, Mr. Zielemans applied the principles and practices covered in this book, thus reshaping and further refining them in the process. Prior to joining the Centric organization, Francois advised numerous large multi-national organizations on the digitalization of their business models, leading several organizational transformations in complex and dynamic environments. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science Degree in Business Administration. He is a prolific author and has a popular blog called The Digital Manifesto.