Get a Backbone! How to Consistently Execute Digital Transformation Projects

Want to make your digital transformations successful? First, build your digital backbone. The existence of a digital backbone in an organization means that anyone aspiring and planning to transform different parts of the enterprise can leverage the digital backbone in a consistent and sustainable way, ensuring that each transformation effort connects and leverages a common platform. What is a digital backbone? It’s a framework that can help keep your organization’s disparate digital transformation efforts coordinated. It identifies the methodologies, skills and talent, and technology tool chain and infrastructure that your organization can most easily consume and adjust as the company changes.

In this webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Gustav Toppenberg will explain how your organization can leverage a digital backbone to support its transformation effort in terms of technology expertise, capabilities, and governance.

Toppenberg will detail the 3 core components of a digital backbone:

  1. Methodologies (e.g., Lean or Agile)
  2. Skills and talent (e.g., data science and machine learning)
  3. Technology tool chain and infrastructure (e.g., data and application development tool chain)

You’ll discover some key features to include in your digital backbone, including:

  • Definition of a toolchain and infrastructure that enables transformation teams to consume these as “off-the-shelf” technology offerings instead of standing up their own infrastructure and applications
  • A data management strategy that directs digital transformation teams to consume data from one common repository, which heightens the likelihood of a successful transformation effort.
  • A set of job descriptions, training modules, awareness of (or a pool of available) talent and skills that can be utilized across the enterprise for any digitalization effort.
  • And more …

But most importantly, you’ll discover why digital transformation leaders are starting to realize that a powerful digital backbone facilitates rapid innovation and responsiveness — keys to successfully executing on a digital strategy.

Meet The Expert

Gustav Toppenberg

Gustav Toppenberg is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium’s Business & Enterprise Architecture and Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practices. Previously, he was a Senior Director of IT at Aon Plc and served as Head of Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Planning at Cisco Systems. Mr. Toppenberg has more than 16 years’ experience in startup, high-growth, and Fortune 100 companies. His diverse background includes building and leading transformational efforts for both small and global operations, and spans across business and IT strategy; business operations; IT risk management; project, program, and portfolio management; organizational change management; management consulting; and IT service management. Mr. Toppenberg serves as an adjunct lecturer on enterprise architecture at Stanford University and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Business, Technology, and Engineering at UC Berkeley. He holds a PhD in IT management from Copenhagen Business School and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a focus in technology strategy and management. 

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