Long Live Enterprise IT Alignment, Sort Of
Long Live Enterprise IT Alignment, Sort Of
This Week in Enterprise Tech, Episode 8, was all over the place. We covered security breaches, to AI oversight, to the "platform wars" — the big point: stay focused on what matters to you.
👋 Hi and welcome to The DX Report — the research hub of The DX Institute all about Digital Transformation, the Digital Experience, and the Digital Enterprise. I’m industry analyst, author, and speaker Charles Araujo, and I’m all about providing insights and analysis for enterprise IT leaders as you make the big bets about your organization’s future!
One of the things I love about enterprise tech is that it sort of lives in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand, things are changing at a breakneck pace. On the other, so much of what it takes to run an enterprise IT organization never changes.
It was this dichotomy and the need for the nasty four-letter word — alignment — that came through for me in this week’s episode of This Week in Enterprise Tech, the podcast I host with Amalgam Insights’ CEO, Hyoun Park.
As I’m now doing, the video and audio links as well as show notes and links to all the articles we discussed are below, but first, let me set the stage for you.
The Multi-Dimensional Job of Being an IT Leader
This week, we covered a ton of ground, everything from a new partnership between Oracle and Palantir, security breaches (including a doozy that was narrowly avoided!), AI oversight, Google maybe acquiring Hubspot and what that means, and the shift to tech companies being platforms.
What is almost shocking is how every last bit of it matters to you.
Given that your feed is basically wall-to-wall AI, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that you have ALL of this to deal with everyday.
And, as we were having the conversation, it occurred to me that the big takeaway was that you need a way to sort through all of it to make it make sense.
Alignment is Still Sexy (Sort Of)
As I was processing everything, it occurred to me that the critical question that you should be asking with each piece of this news is, “How will this impact my organization?”
I don’t think it’s generally going to be a question of “if it will,” but just “how it will.”
As always, it should be your organization’s business priorities and strategies that dictate how these issues will impact you and how you should respond. Which leads me to that much maligned word: alignment.
While I get all the arguments about it’s not IT-to-business alignment because IT is the business, blah, blah. The fact remains that every IT leader is executing a continual alignment process to digest the fast moving world of tech to the often slower pace of business change.
That alignment is not only necessary, I find it sexy. It represents your ability to execute that distillation and leverage changes happening in the world of tech to propel your organization forward in just the right ways. And that’s something to get excited over.
So, I don’t know where the advantage in this week’s topics lies for you and your organization, but my hope is that we help you identify them in some small way. Happy listening!
This Week in Enterprise Tech, Episode 8
Welcome to This Week in Enterprise Tech! Five big topics for the CIO Office to consider this week by Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park and the DX Institute's Charles Araujo. Oracle and Palantir team up in the cloud, Cybersecurity issues, EU Regulations for AI, Google is interested in Hubspot, and we wonder if every cloud must become an enterprise app platform.
Segment descriptions and links to all the articles we discuss are in the Show Notes, below.
Watch the full episode here:
Show Notes
1. Oracle and Palantir Team Up in the Cloud: Oracle and Palantir partner up to bring AI to every cloud. How should CIOs think about Oracle as a cloud provider based on this new announcement?
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2. Security Issues: Microsoft, AT&T, and Social Security: This has been a wild few weeks for security between the XZ Utils data-compression tool compromise, the Cyber Safety Review Board review of the Microsoft Exchange Online hack, AT&T having 73 million accounts hacked, and even Social Security numbers getting stolen! How can CIOs prepare when even the largest tech giants are under attack?
Articles discussed:
https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-security-chickens-have-come-home-to-roost/amp/
https://bgr.com/tech/over-70-million-att-accounts-were-hacked/
https://www.runtime.news/sabotage-in-the-software-supply-chain/
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3. EU Regulation Complicates Global AI Standards: European Union Regulations have effectively been setting global governance standards for AI. How should CIOs prepare for the future of AI legislation?
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4. Will Google Acquire Hubspot? Alphabet is rumored to be looking at Hubspot at a potential $40 billion+ purchase price. Hubspot has been successfully expanding and gaining market share in a variety of markets. Is this a good idea for Google Cloud and what potential obstacles exist in an acquisition?
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5. Must Every Cloud Become an Enterprise App ~*~PLATFORM~*~: PLATFORM PLATFORM PLATFORM! TWIET discusses whether every public cloud has to also be an enterprise application platform.
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