Over the past 20 months, ADAPT had over 20,000 interactions with senior executives and hosted more than 3,000 leaders across Australia and New Zealand.

ADAPT found that CIOs shared common pandemic inflicted struggles in technology deployment, budgets, decision-making, and skills limitations.

Despite all the success achieved, many technology leaders suffer from a lack of unified vision for technology adoption, conflicting business priorities, people-driven change, burnout, and talent shortages.

Leaders’ efforts are increasingly hamstrung by low levels of digital literacy, amplified by legacy mindsets, processes, and systems. ADAPT has analysed and identified 12 areas on which Australian and New Zealand organisations should focus, to deliver $315 billion to the economy and make digital history.

At ADAPT’s CIO Edge session highlight, ADAPT’s Senior Research Strategist, Aparna Sundararajan, shares these 12 local business priorities for 2022:

  • Become Data-Driven
  • Modernise the Foundations
  • Drive Organisational Alignment
  • Embed Security and Compliance
  • Scale Digitisation and Automation
  • Differentiate Customer Experiences
  • Optimise the Connected Workplace
  • Identify and Capture Value
  • Exploit Emerging Technologies
  • Prioritise Skills and Leadership
  • Improve Digital Literacy
  • Champion Change
Contributors
Aparna Sundararajan Senior Research Strategist
Aparna Sundararajan leads the emerging and disruptive technology research agenda within ADAPT’s strategic advisory team. As Senior Research Strategist, her role is... More

Aparna Sundararajan leads the emerging and disruptive technology research agenda within ADAPT’s strategic advisory team. As Senior Research Strategist, her role is to create independent advice for the Australian C-Suite around emerging technologies, trends and investment priorities and developing industry leading content for the ADAPT portfolio of Edge events.

As a technology analyst and marketer, Aparna aligns the burning issues of senior executives with digital business dynamics and emerging technology capabilities to create strategic advice for ADAPT’s Members and Strategic Partners.

Aparna has had 12 years working in the IT services sector, much of it with Gartner, where she developed independent advice for senior IT managers on the emerging roles and responsibilities they face in digital technologies, digital customer behaviour, and business model transformation.

 

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