Balancing demands, shifting to the right gear at the right time to achieve the right outcome. How does a CIO decide where to focus a finite amount of time, talent and investment? One size fits few and multi-speed business requires a multi-faceted IT operating model. CIOS must match the speed of technology to the speed at which the business needs to consume it. This can be simplified into a four-point plan: Consumption of IT at different speeds, multiple governance models, rethinking architecture needs and inventing the new IT organization. By using multi-speed as opposed to multi-tasking, CIOs will be integral to ensuring an organization reaches its many destinations.

1. Gearing up for Growth
Using Multi-Speed IT
SLIDESHARE

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Evolving Role of IT
• Mastering multi-speed IT is essential for CIOs
looking to drive business innovation and growth
• CIOs who build multi-speed IT capability place IT
at the epi-center of the digital business revolution
Balancing demands – Shifting
to the right gear at the right time
to achieve the right outcome

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Operating in a multi-dimensional world
High-performing CIOs have different priorities:
• Striving to provide the right information to the right
person, finding better ways to interact with customers
and delivering new services or products
• Creating an effective multi-speed IT organization
requiring different modes operating at the same time
to drive strategic business imperatives
How does a CIO decide where
to focus a finite amount of time,
talent and investment?
of executives surveyed by Accenture Strategy expressed confidence
that they or their IT organization could operate and simultaneously
support multiple business objectives, or “multi-speed IT”71%

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One size fits few
• Key to maintaining momentum is matching the speed
of technology to the speed at which the business needs to
consume it
• 88 percent of executives surveyed believe that the IT
organization needs to broaden its scope and keep pace with the
evolving needs of the business
• 81 percent of executives surveyed indicate that the IT
organization has reached a fork in the road, and the choice
is whether to accelerate the digital agenda or allow others in the
organization to lead
Multi-speed business requires a
multi-faceted IT operating model

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Calibrating the operating model
• Successful approach brings together legacy, cloud
and omnichannel-based components
• Accenture Research notes one in five high performers
in IT has a comprehensive sourcing strategy, aligning key
partners with business priorities
• Talent pool able to deliver new capabilities in areas like
innovation, ecosystem partner management and DevOps
• Governance models prioritize business demand and
allocation of the right mode of operations to deliver
value at the right time
Bringing together the many and
varied requirements of business

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Accelerating to multiple speeds
A four-point plan to mastering the art of multi-speed IT:
With great responsibility comes great opportunity
Recognize the
business need for
IT consumption at
different speeds
Employ multiple
governance models
and methods
Rethink
architecture
needs
Invent
the new IT
organization

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Multi-speed, not multi-task
With the right operating model
in place, the business will be
powered by capable teams using
the right technology and solid
governance. In that way, CIOs
will be integral to ensuring an
organization reaches its many
destinations.
Distinction lies in role of CIO

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