Insight report
The Path to Digital Transformation:
Where Leaders Stand in 2023
By Insight Editor / 18 Feb 2023 / Topics: Data and AI Cloud Digital transformation Consulting services
What are your top IT goals for 2023? Every year, Insight commissions Foundry to survey hundreds of leaders in IT, security and more to discover the key priorities and pain points on the path to digital transformation. View the full survey results now to see how organizations like yours are strategizing transformation in pursuit of innovation.
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Optimization is the name of the game.
Following a year of shifting priorities and facing the possibility of economic recession, digital transformation in 2023 emphasizes optimization. Technology as a business agenda is front and center, but how can companies continue to pursue transformation — and innovation — while insulating against added cost and risk?
The #1 technology
initiative for 2023 is
optimizing
IT infrastructure.
The results of our 2023 survey show that making more effective use of existing resources is the leading transformation strategy. In fact, optimizing IT infrastructure through better monitoring and management is the top technology initiative underway or planned for the next 12 months, cited by a full 50% of respondents. Discover leaders’ expectations for infrastructure optimization in the survey infographic.
2023's top roadblocks to innovation:
45%
Gaps in technology skills
and knowledge
42%
Budget constraints to
fund innovation
39%
Technical debt (resulting from
reliance on siloed, legacy systems
and processes)
39%
Cultural misalignment/disconnects between IT operations and
development teams
Tech debt is on the rise.
When it comes to roadblocks, skill and knowledge gaps remain the biggest challenge, just as in 2022. What’s new is that technical debt now tops the list as well — it’s the #3 challenge, up from #6 in 2022. And the impacts haven’t been pretty. View the ebook to learn how, exactly, technical debt is hindering business progress.
Data and application initiatives
#1
Optimizing data and analytics capabilities (51%)
#5
Integrating insights from edge devices into data analysis (36%)
Platform
performance
#2
Increasing cloud adoption via multicloud and hybrid cloud strategy (49%)
#3
Modernizing legacy infrastructure and networking technology (39%)
Security
integrations
#4
Mitigating risk with stronger cybersecurity programs (38%)
Strategic transformation starts here.
As expectations shift to better accommodate user and business needs, technology goals are centering around three core components of the IT landscape: data and application initiatives, platform performance and security integrations. The data shows: Transformation across these pillars will be the key to unlocking meaningful innovation.
Find out how organizations like yours are planning to implement optimization on the journey to digital transformation — read the full survey results.
