Section FourTechnology for Speed and Distributed Innovation
Building a technology environment that empowers the entire organization to digitally innovate
At its simplest form, the objective for technology is to make it easy for your pods to constantly develop and release digital and AI innovations to customers and users. Achieving this requires building a distributed technology environment where every pod can access the data, applications, and software development tools they need to rapidly innovate and deliver secure, high-quality solutions.
Recent and maturing technology advances – including the thoughtful use of APIs to decouple applications, the availability of developer tooling, the selective migration of high-value workloads to the cloud, and the automation of infrastructure provisioning – can create this distributed environment.
Those of you who do not come from a tech background may be tempted to skip this section. Don't! You need to know the basics about technology to be an effective leader in the digital world. While this section does dig into some of the specifics of a fast-evolving technology landscape, it also highlights the most important issues and topics to understand to be an effective digital leader.1
Seven broad capabilities are needed to build a technology environment that can support a digital transformation:
- Chapter 17: Decoupled architecture for development flexibility and operational scalability. The overarching design principles and choices to build ...
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