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Uma função tecnológica de classe mundial é digital, simples e resiliente

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Uma nova geração de tecnologias emocionantes - parte da quarta revolução industrial - está dirigindo o movimento em direção Organizações biônicas, orientadas a dados, orientadas a dados . No entanto, muitos líderes corporativos estão começando a perceber que seus departamentos de TI não são capazes de alavancar adequadamente essas tecnologias para reinventar produtos e serviços, atender às mudanças nas demandas dos clientes e acompanhar o ritmo dos distúrbios digitais.

To compete, organizations need to Desenvolver funções tecnológicas de classe mundial (WCTFS) Isso cria diferenciação estratégica, permitindo novos recursos digitais e aumentando a simplificação da empresa (para impulsionar a economia de custos) e a resiliência - para lidar com uma variedade de desenvolvimentos adversos, incluindo ataques cibernéticos, crises da indústria e crise econômica. (Consulte “As características de um WCTF.)

As características de um WCTF

As características de um WCTF || Simplificação da empresa (para gerar economia de custos) e resiliência. Colaboração entre negócios e função de tecnologia

We have identified six dominant WCTF characteristics on the basis of several hundred projects. Each of these characteristics creates strategic differentiation by enabling new digital capabilities and increasing the enterprise’s simplification (to drive cost savings) and resilience.

  • A modern, simplified, application, data, and technology infrastructure landscape that incorporates digital-ready architecture, next-generation enterprise resource planning, and advanced data analytics capabilities, which can leverage public or private cloud technologies.
  • An operating model based on close collaboration between business and the technology function e criado aplicando metodologias de trabalho ágil em toda a empresa. Especialistas (definidos como desenvolvedores com habilidades de codificação em pelo menos três plataformas) dentro da força de trabalho. parcerias digitais, inclusive com fornecedores não tradicionais; recursos de fornecimento ágil; e gestão de última geração de fornecedores. Sinergias entre empresa e tecnologia operacional.
  • A future-ready technology workforce, leadership, and culture focused on hiring, training, and retaining talent with the right digital and tech skill sets and increasing the share of engineering experts (defined as developers with coding skills on at least three platforms) within the workforce.
  • A well-defined ecosystem and sourcing model, including a strategic split between what the company decides to build rather than buy; digital partnerships, including with nontraditional providers; agile sourcing capabilities; and state-of-the art management of suppliers.
  • Leading-edge cybersecurity capabilities that can both combat the rise in cyber attacks of roughly 20% per year and protect internal assets as well as products.
  • A technology function that participates as an equal with the business in all key digital programs—for example, digital supply chain and Industry 4.0—and that looks for synergies between enterprise IT and operational technology.

As barreiras à transformação

In our work, we have seen firsthand the benefits of putting a WCTF in place: for example, a 300% to 400% rise in customer satisfaction and return on digital investment, a 200% to 400% acceleration in delivery, a 15% to 20% shift from indirect to direct technology activities, and a 15% to 25% reduction in development costs. But making the transition to a WCTF and achieving these kinds of results is far from easy.

Um WCTF pode resultar em um aumento de 300% a 400% na satisfação do cliente e retorno do investimento digital.

As funções tecnológicas modernas evoluíram além de apenas a empresa. Eles agora tendem a incluir a tecnologia operacional (OT) ou a tecnologia de produção e prestam atenção a toda a empresa e OT em quaisquer subsidiárias ou startups nas quais sua empresa possui uma posição majoritária. Consequentemente, os departamentos de TI experimentaram várias rodadas de corte de custos. 

Yet, for many years, most companies have viewed the IT function as just another support function, along the lines of accounting, PR, and human resources. Consequently, IT departments have experienced multiple rounds of cost cutting. 

Além disso, eles enfrentaram pressão para terceirizar, o que significa que essas capacidades não permanecem mais internamente e estão apenas com os fornecedores de TI-geralmente resultando em uma perda de recursos críticos. Nesses casos, as unidades de negócios e tecnologia geralmente funcionam em silos. Como resultado, o lado dos negócios geralmente sente que não está fornecendo soluções com rapidez suficiente. Ao mesmo tempo, a falta de estreita colaboração também pode resultar em grandes investimentos que não conseguem entregar devido ao alinhamento ou adesão insuficientes com os negócios. Quando isso ocorre, surge uma função de sombra que é inalinada com a TI central, criando ainda mais complexidade. Para isso, no entanto, eles precisarão lutar contra hábitos e maneiras de fazer negócios. Em outras palavras, eles terão que passar por uma mudança fundamental na mentalidade.

The IT function in many industries also still operates as a traditional enterprise department—weighed down by legacy systems, with data scattered across the organization. In such cases, the business and technology units typically work in silos. As a result, the business side often feels that IT is not delivering solutions fast enough. At the same time, the lack of close collaboration can also result in major investments failing to deliver because of insufficient alignment or buy-in with the business. When this occurs, a shadow IT function often emerges that is unaligned with the central IT, creating even more complexity.

Companies must begin treating the IT function as a strategic business partner and digital business enabler instead of a service provider. To do so, however, they will need to fight long-ingrained habits and ways of doing business. In other words, they will have to undergo a fundamental change in mindset.

Companies must begin treating the IT function as a strategic business partner and digital business enabler instead of a service provider.

Uma pesquisa recente do BCG com 150 empresas em todo o setor em todo o mundo destaca a extensão desse desafio: 55% das empresas relataram que ainda é visto como um provedor de serviços e não um parceiro estratégico para os negócios; Apenas 17% das empresas concordaram com um cenário de aplicativos pronto para o digital que permita fornecer novos serviços digitais com a mesma eficiência que os nativos digitais; E apenas 32% das empresas têm uma estratégia para migrar de arquiteturas tradicionais para as modernas, orientadas a serviços, como microsserviços. Embora algumas empresas tenham os recursos para buscar os dois objetivos igualmente e simultaneamente, a maioria precisará decidir como equilibrar os dois e onde colocar seu foco. O sucesso depende de ter em mente e escolher o mix certo. Crie uma plataforma moderna de dados e digital que abraça o design digital

Pathways to a WCTF

To overcome these barriers and transform IT into a world-class technology function, companies need to build up digital capabilities and increase simplification and resilience. Though some companies have the resources to pursue both objectives equally and simultaneously, most will need to decide how to balance the two and where to put their focus. Success depends on keeping both in mind and choosing the right mix.

A company that chooses to focus more on building up digital capabilities, for example, could decide on some combination of the following priorities:

Outra empresa pode optar por se concentrar mais no aumento da simplificação e resiliência da função de tecnologia. As prioridades desta empresa podem incluir uma combinação do seguinte:

Getting the Right Mix

Choosing how much to focus on each objective is critical. Getting it right will depend on:

Renault. This international car manufacturer focused mainly on building up digital capabilities to accelerate its digital transformation in order to tap into new technologies in areas such as connected cars, autonomous cars, and data analytics. It applied three main levers.

First, it built a digital platform that would work alongside its legacy systems, consolidate data spread across more than 2,000 applications, and make the data accessible and usable. This effort also reinforced the simplification of legacy systems by, for example, defining a single source of truth and reducing ERP versions.

Second, the company moved to adopt agile ways of working for new projects, bringing in scrum masters and agile coaches to support the transition. Renault also upgraded tools to facilitate real-time collaboration and information sharing for teams, which has been very valuable because team members often travel around the world.

Finally, the company committed to hiring new tech talent and retraining existing teams to work with the new technologies.

A Leading Australian Consumer Brand. This company also focused on building digital capabilities. To guide the development of new digital products and services, the company created multidiscipline agile teams led by the business owners. To support these teams’ development efforts, the company added a layer of application programming interface services onto the existing application landscape and selectively implemented new software to replace legacy systems and simplify the application landscape at the same time. For example, it added a core customer relationship management (CRM) system with state-of-the-art customer data management and flexible front-end development capabilities. It also ensured access to the right mix of skills from internal staff, contractors, and vendors to get the most out of the new CRM system.

Pandora. This global jewelry manufacturer and retailer chose to place a stronger focus on increasing simplification and resilience of the technology function. The company began in 2015 with a clear objective: to simplify and streamline its highly decentralized IT. First, Pandora redesigned its IT to become a global technology function and strengthened its governance. For example, the company developed a global vendor management department and created processes to prioritize and manage the technology project portfolio. Pandora also implemented several global applications, such as an HR system and ERP system, that allowed the company to switch off many regional apps and thus greatly simplify the application landscape.

Pandora continued to simplify the technology function—for example, by further optimizing the sourcing model, location footprint, and vendor management. But about two years ago, with many of its simplification and resilience goals fully met or well underway, the company turned toward a stronger focus on building up its digital capabilities, such as developing more digital skills in-house, establishing agile development for front-end applications, and beginning to migrate to the public cloud. All these activities helped to decrease cost while increasing resilience and to improve capabilities that support Pandora’s business and digital transformation. (See the exhibit.) The next step is to leverage the public cloud further and build the data and digital platform layer to better support advanced analytics and AI use cases.

Etapas para uma transformação em andamento

A company must take steps to ensure that the transformation stays on track through all its stages. To this end, a strong commitment and involvement by the CEO and other top executives is vital. It would be difficult to overemphasize this point. Designing a WCTF must be high on the agenda of senior management—and the team needs substantial tech proficiency within its ranks to drive the transformation. The organization should take the following steps:

  1. Realizar uma avaliação para determinar a maturidade da função de tecnologia, especialmente o status quo dos recursos digitais, simplificação e resiliência da empresa e comparar esses resultados contra benchmarks e pares do setor. Para ser abrangente, essa avaliação precisa incluir feedback sobre o desempenho da função de tecnologia das principais partes interessadas dos negócios. Esta avaliação determina o ponto de partida. As empresas também precisam garantir que aproveitem os investimentos que já estão fazendo em suas transformações de ERP para chegar o mais próximo possível de seus objetivos. Por exemplo, a migração atual do SAP R/3 para S/4HANA, a ser concluída até 2025, oferece às empresas a oportunidade de pensar além de apenas uma atualização. Por exemplo, eles podem considerar de maneira mais ampla como alavancar a migração para obter mais valor dos dados da empresa ou reavaliar a linha de demarcação entre os processos de negócios SAP e software como serviço suportado por serviço. A empresa também precisa selecionar KPIs para acompanhar o progresso de iniciativas individuais e o sucesso da transformação ao longo do tempo. Eles podem escolher o caminho que atinge o equilíbrio certo entre o desenvolvimento de recursos digitais e buscar simplificação e resiliência com base no ponto de partida da organização, nos objetivos de negócios e em outros fatores contextuais. Muitas vezes, o negócio assume mais responsabilidade pelo desenvolvimento de recursos digitais. No entanto, a colaboração apresenta o risco de aumentar o custo e a complexidade da tecnologia. Portanto, é importante identificar também as áreas certas para a simplificação e economia de custos - por exemplo, como no ERP e serviços em nuvem, que geralmente não fornecem diferenciação para a empresa. Michael Grebe
  2. On the basis of this assessment, leaders need to identify key strengths and weaknesses and define their goals for both digital capabilities and simplification and resilience. Companies also need to make sure that they leverage whatever investments they are already making in their ERP transformations to get as close as possible to their goals. For example, the current migration from SAP R/3 to S/4HANA, to be completed by 2025, gives companies the opportunity to think beyond just an upgrade. For example, they can consider more broadly how to leverage the migration to get more value out of company data or reassess the line of demarcation between SAP and software-as-a-service-supported business processes.
  3. Embed any new initiatives and adjustments in a transformation roadmap for the technology function. The company also needs to select KPIs to track the progress of individual initiatives and the success of the transformation over time.



Though the challenges of creating a WCTF are enormous—in terms of changing mindsets, developing new ways of working, and strengthening existing systems—leaders have some flexibility for how they bring about this transformation. They can choose the pathway that strikes the right balance between developing digital capabilities and pursuing simplification and resilience on the basis of the organization’s starting point, business objectives, and other contextual factors.

This choice has become critical as business and technology groups begin to work together more closely; often, the business takes on more responsibility for developing digital capabilities. Yet the collaboration comes with a risk of increased technology cost and complexity. Thus, it’s important to also identify the right areas for simplification and cost savings—for example, such as in ERP, and cloud services, which often do not provide differentiation for the company.

Authors

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Michael Grebe

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior
Munique

parceiro e diretor

Heiner Himmelreich

Parceiro e diretor
Amsterdã

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior

Andrew Arcuri

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior
Sydney

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior

Benjamin Rehberg

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior
Nova Iorque

especialista em conhecimento sênior, gerente de equipe

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Sabine Döschl

Especialista em conhecimento sênior, gerente de equipe
Munique

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