Digital transformation of IT organizations

Recently, when communicating with CIO/CTO of many enterprises and heads of IT departments at all levels about digital transformation, they were all full of enthusiasm and longing for the future of digitalization.

But what we see is that the functions of IT departments in most enterprises are still at the level of "business support", and they are organizations that provide IT system support for business departments. This has also caused the employees of IT department in traditional enterprises to assume the role of project manager of Party A more. This project-oriented approach often makes employees devote themselves to the work of the next project after one project is started. It is difficult for employees to continuously accumulate and precipitate their own business or professional abilities. As a result, the enthusiasm and creativity of employees are gradually eroded, and the productivity and innovation atmosphere of the entire IT department are also greatly affected.

At the same time, there are hundreds of CIOs/CTOs ahead? What is the cost of Ang? Although the legacy systems supported and maintained are willing to respond to the rapidly changing market demand, they cannot cope with the pressure of project cycle and cost.

Digital transformation is imperative. In the process of promoting the digital transformation of the whole enterprise, discussing the following questions can answer many managers' doubts.

What is the relationship between business architecture and IT architecture?

Business architecture can start from enterprise strategy and design business and business processes according to enterprise strategy. Business processes need the support of business capabilities. From strategy to business, and then to the demand of business capability, the capability layout supporting the realization of enterprise strategy is formed-this layout is understood as business architecture, which is the design process of creating value for customers.

Business architecture design will try its best to achieve more diverse businesses or services with more intensive capabilities, which is actually the goal pursued by China-Taiwan strategy. Therefore, China-Taiwan strategy can actually be summed up as a commercial architecture design.

After the business architecture design is completed, the "soul" is born, and the IT architecture designs the "container" according to the needs of the "soul". IT architecture is usually divided into application architecture and technical architecture (with the development of big data in recent years, the status of data architecture has risen linearly).

Application architecture focuses on functional layout and is closely related to business architecture, so it can be called "immediate process" of business architecture design. Technical architecture mainly focuses on hierarchy. For large-scale business systems, it may be necessary to realize a logical hierarchy through multiple platforms. The relationship between technical architecture and business architecture is not as direct as that of application architecture, mainly through comprehensive consideration of business characteristics, business volume and other factors, such as the rationality of stratification and the choice of platform.

As the "container" of the "soul", the data architecture, application architecture and business architecture in IT architecture are most closely related. It is an important job for technicians to inject the soul into the container. Whether it can be injected smoothly and let the soul have a suitable residence depends on the technicians' full understanding of the soul.