Enterprise Automation strategies of tomorrow

 What should be Enterprise Automation strategies of tomorrow

CIOs and IT leaders have spent months adapting to change and scaling new solutions at speed; thus, spending considerable effort and energy; often to the point of burn out. Much of this is due to the changing natures of infrastructure and the application landscape; as IT leaders scramble to go cloud first in enabling new forms of working and reimagining operating models. In a cloud-first and increasingly automated world, CIOs and IT leaders must pay close attention to how their infrastructure is utilized and managed; as well as how apps are delivered – securely and to their optimum utility. It is therefore no surprise that the collective realization is that - strategic infrastructure standardization, modernization and automation efforts will be critical for successful digital transformation. The key questions many CIOs and IT leaders continue to have are as follows:

1.     How to craft automation as an ongoing discipline – rather than as POCs and one-time initiatives that lead to no significant increase in metric output?

2.     Building on an automation strategy that will insure scale, efficiency, and consistency

3.     Measuring the automation journey’s efficacy and impact on productivity; thus, being able to holistically offload routine work to automation and improve the volume of work that can be executed

4.     Navigating the complex ecosystem of ‘workloads’ – some already on the cloud, some ready to be moved; and still some, that are not ready for cloud migration due to complexity, performance, fiscal considerations, or regulations.