‘Most of the organizations are in the beginning or midst of a digital transformation’  

Commitment as a Tech Head  
Across the Globe, there is a clear tie between digital transformation and the changing role of the CIO; the CIO must collaborate with the business along with business goals. Many enterprises feel that somebody else can do anything innovative, nimble, and agile. There is a gap in leadership in driving these programs. CIOs have the opportunity to play a key role in bridging the gap between departments in the company, enhancing collaboration, and fully participating in driving internal and external factors

 
Enterprises that have organization-wide digital strategies tend to be more effective. Lines of business are increasingly owning technology, but they can’t do it in a silo. Most of the enterprises are failing or not getting desired results and increasing the expenditure because of the silo approach. Ultimately, digital transformation has to connect across the business and meet the organizational goal. 

Experience Cell
Most of the organizations are in the beginning stage or in the midst of a digital transformation. A CIO’s biggest challenge is people skill set for implementation of any new technology and at the same time understanding organization needs. Adopting or implementing any technology should improve organization efficiency. Unlike any other industry, the manufacturing industry is having many challenges in implementation of technologies and going for automation. More than technology implementation, functional experience matters for designing the system. Also business dynamics and management thinking is changing very frequently; there is a  need to identify talented people, make them as a group from cross-sectional in the company, and make them work together in designing solutions. This is also one key area where CIO’s need to think. 

Key Priorities
CIOs are playing key roles in bringing the enterprises into a new era of digitalisation. Artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity are two major focus areas for this financial year. Apart from digitalisation, the digital security of an organization’s data is the top priority. IT budget will have more percentage share in cybersecurity after digitalisation investment like IoT, Artificial intelligence (AI) etc.

It is crucial to identify whether an investment in IoT will get ROI or not. The key for many organisations and providers will be to get the right groundwork in place, otherwise it’s going to be a bit of mess in implementation. Definitely, with proper study and roadmap CIOs will be able to create big benefits and business model by adoption of disruptive technologies.

Adaptability to Organizational Changes
We are beginning to see the permeation of the Internet of Things into various sectors. One vertical where we see this diffusion the most is in the manufacturing industry. Indeed, manufacturing Industries, automotive, healthcare industries and other industries have already started to grapple with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), where devices such as sensors, robots, RFIDs and many more are becoming increasingly more connected and integrated with each other. 

Most technology implementation, it requires lot of functional skillset and experience to fix the parameters to get the required output for decision making in addition to the cyber security expertise to address the cyber-attacks.