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First question: What’s the biggest hindrance to digital transformation right now, and how can that be addressed?
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Joe Weinman
lack of vision, lack of IT skills, lack of willingness to take risk
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Dr. Jeff Daniels
Mandraulic processes and lack of digital skills. Digital transformation with formal & informal processes is tough to do effectively.
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Ben Amaba
Uncertainty and variability is a major hindrance to digital transformation. Increased knowledge will create improved technology; social behaviors, economic models and policies to secure trust from the public.
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Joe Weinman
the skills issue has to be the biggest one
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Amy Hermes
Leave it to @jeffdaniels to use a SAT word like "mandraulic" ;)
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
No business process is an island - aligning the application to technology and to the culture is the journey.
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Ben Amaba
. As we go through a digital transformation; we are learning from models and experiences to generate assets that have specificity, measurements that are traceable, auditable, and reusable, and governance processes that detect variability and lowe
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Joe Weinman
because there is not only a global shortage but the major players can pay for the best talent
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Ben Amaba
Discipline is improving in the digital era because we have more assets, empirical knowledge, and data to better understand what is needed for the digital transformation.
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
@BenAmaba Really going point - clear metrics show both the value of transformation and can be used to accelerate projects down the road.
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Joe Weinman
so it is more challenging for everyone else
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Joe Weinman
due to mandraulicsupercalifragilisticexpialidociousness
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CloudMunch
Lack of vision and not understanding the cultural change that needs to go with it
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
@BenAmaba With "Uncertainty" comes opportunity - leveraging cloud and process innovation helps target the opportunity side.
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Dr. Jeff Daniels
Agree @cloudmunch cultural change might be harder than the technical solution!
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CloudMunch
@BenAmaba Absolutely. For most organizations, it is the bottleneck
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Joe Weinman
for the average vertical, it seems like there is also a lack of IT-enabled visioning...after all, why didn't taxi companies do what Uber did before it existed
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Amy Hermes
So glad I'm not the only one wondering what "mandraulic processes" are @IBMcloud @joeweinman, @angelluisdiaz, @JeffDaniels & @benamaba! :)
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
@jeffdaniels Automation is key - but at the same we need to take care and (1) automate with multi-clouds in mind and (2) automate in a way that does not create new silos or black art.
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CloudMunch
Multi-Cloud, automation + no lock-in are the key mantra for the flexibility needed for continuous evolution
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50ShadesofCloud
Fear. Security. Ideas that go beyond the limitations of our current technology.
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Dr. Jeff Daniels
fear, uncertainty, doubt @50ShadesofCloud