Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks’ True innovation requires an understanding of the value that provide technology Smart technology investments are needed more than ever to stay ahead of the competition management at C-level need not concern themselves.. programming, but a business growth strategy demands a close relationship between those who define the strategy and the people who perform it. “
Arm your current and future IT managers for the disruption to Come
More than half of respondents (55 percent of all IT decision makers and 51 percent of all business decision makers) expect that a new disruptive technology, product or service will be introduced within their industry over the next two years. IT departments but do not think that they are sufficiently prepared for the changes ahead. Nearly half (45 percent) of all surveyed IT decision makers believe that a quarter or more of their IT staff over five years will not have the skills necessary for business success.
Inform the C-level management and prepare for rapid change
Nearly nine out of ten respondents (84 percent of all IT decision makers and 84 percent of all business decision makers) that would perform their organizations better as the C-level management would be technically better educated.
Insufficient investment in ICT is at the expense of innovation. It prevents companies to their legs and remain competitive with the pace of change. Almost half of respondents (46 percent of all IT decision makers and 50 percent of all business decision makers) expect their organization would be one or more years of doing to introduce an improved version of a product or service if it would be challenged by the competitor. However, chances are that they do not spend much time at their disposal will have as a result of the high rate of disruption.
Worse still is that the legacy infrastructure business growth is in the way. More than half of respondents said that their IT infrastructure to very reasonably likely to constitute a stumbling block for the rapid introduction of a new product or service.
To remain relevant companies need to respond to the impending disruption within their market. This is possible by reviewing their IT approaches and continuing to invest in innovation. They are more likely to remain competitive as their management at the forefront of technological innovation.
Invest in automation
Companies that want to remain disruptive developments, their investments in network automation should classify by priority. The survey results show that both business and IT decision-makers network automation consider crucial to the future competitiveness of their organization.
Nearly three in four respondents (70 percent of all IT decision makers and 72 percent of all business decision makers) show themselves enthusiastic about the opportunities that ICT and network automation to offer their organization. Almost all IT decision makers (93 percent) already using software defined networking (SDN) or network functions virtualization (NFV) says that these technologies have given them a significant competitive edge.
IT decision makers at companies that use SDN say they have founded significantly more benefits and opportunities than originally anticipated. The respondents saw cloud interconnects, virtualized data centers, and automated security as key benefits of using SDN. IT decision makers at companies working with NFV, saying also to have realized more benefits and opportunities than expected. In their NFV offers opportunities as virtualized security, routing and virtualized WAN optimization.
