There is no question that as the digital economy unfolds for agile applications, infrastructure, and processes over the next decade, CIOs and IT business leaders will need to embrace and advocate for agile infrastructure and
processes if their businesses are to not only survive the tides of the everchanging IT landscape, but thrive and remain competitive.
The development of exclusively digital business models, such as those adopted by Uber and Airbnb, has shown that entire industries can be disrupted with little more than an application. Clearly, the nature of the traditional enterprise– from healthcare to retail–must adapt by transforming existing business models and implementing future-forward digital strategies.