{"id":20997,"date":"2017-11-08T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2017-11-08T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:23:05","slug":"commvault-global-study-reveals-expectation-gap-for-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/11\/08\/commvault-global-study-reveals-expectation-gap-for-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commvault global study reveals Digital Transformation expectation gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Poll of 1,200 IT executives and IT personnel shows significant gap between business expectations and Digital Transformation readiness\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Survey designed by Commvault and Quadrant Strategies reveals most IT personnel believe they lack the skillset, technology and bandwidth to create a Data-centric Foundation for Innovation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Survey reveals troubling lack of readiness; more than 60% of respondents think they have access to less than half of their organisations\u2019 data<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At a time when CEOs and executive boards are calling for a rapid transformation to digital business models, a worldwide study released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commvault.com?utm_source=press-release&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=brand\">Commvault<\/a>, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, and Quadrant Strategies has uncovered an alarming gap between the expectations of management and the readiness of IT organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u2018<strong>Measuring IT\u2019s Readiness for Digital Business<\/strong>,\u2019 a survey of 1,200 IT executives and IT personnel in six global business markets released today at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commvault.com\/events\/commvault-go-2017\">Commvault Go 2017<\/a>, reveals that while many executives recognise the need to be able to lead their companies through Digital Transformation, IT personnel actually feel they lack the skillset, technology and bandwidth to create the data-centric foundation required for that digital change and future innovation.<\/p>\n<p>As both public and private organisations shift to become modern digital businesses, a fundamental change is occurring in the IT market, a move from an infrastructure-centric to a strategic data-centric approach. Further accelerating this is the move to multi-cloud environments, to better prevent and recover from cyberattacks, comply with new data privacy regulations, and to use analytics to generate improved business insights.<\/p>\n<p>The findings of the \u2018<strong>Measuring<\/strong> <strong>IT\u2019s Readiness Digital Business<\/strong>\u2019 study further demonstrate that with this shift a more holistic approach to data management and a data-driven strategy to drive innovation and competitive differentiation is also taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings of the survey include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Importance of Data<\/em> \u2013 More than 50% of respondents say \u201cbetter data collection and management\u201d and \u201cnew tools to analyse increasingly sophisticated data\u201d as essential to the future success of their business.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lack of Access to Data<\/em> \u2013 More than 60% of respondents, including IT executives and IT personnel, think they have access to less than half of their organisations\u2019 data.<\/li>\n<li><em>Perception Gap <\/em>\u2013 While 41% of executives believe their organisations understand and are prepared for innovation only 29% of IT personnel believe the same. Further, over a third of IT personnel think executives would feel concerned, anxious or panicked if they knew more about their IT department. While another 16% said they\u2019d be unhappy, angry or disgusted.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lack of Bandwidth<\/em> \u2013 Most IT executives prioritise day-to-day operations over innovation \u2013 and IT personnel follow their lead.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lack of Skillsets<\/em> \u2013 More than 50% of IT personnel believe their roles will change radically and they will need to acquire new skills to stay relevant.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lack of Technology \u2013 <\/em>More than two-thirds of respondents believe their organisations are not prepared for migrating data to the cloud, protecting that data, or bringing together all data in the company.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lack of Commitment to Putting Vision into Practice<\/em> \u2013 More than 40% of companies don\u2019t yet have a formal, proactive plan for digital transformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cOur \u2018<strong>Measuring<\/strong> <strong>IT\u2019s Readiness Digital Business<\/strong>\u2019 study reveals nearly universal agreement on the importance of effectively managing data in order to innovate and accomplish the remarkable things required for creating a digital business and improving customer experience,\u201d said N. Robert Hammer, chairman, president and CEO of Commvault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, every day we see evidence of leading-edge companies and progressive CIOs moving quickly to develop very sophisticated data management capabilities, providing the tools, time and training their teams need to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Digital transformation is no longer a choice. Organisations must transform or die. For example, studies have shown that companies utilising data-driven insights to make strategic decisions have improved their productivity by up to 33%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, progressive companies, that have transformed their business models, are future-proofing their organisations and reshaping their industries. The common theme among these companies is progressive CEOs and CIOs who recognised that a digital transformation vision was not enough. Instead, they enabled their IT organisations \u2013 through new skillsets and tools \u2013 to create a data-centric foundation that supported more cost-effective current operations while providing deeper business insights and the agility to support radical new ideas and new applications for doing business with customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis survey was a statistically powerful look at how IT executives and personnel think about digital transformation and the challenges IT departments will face over the coming years. The findings were remarkably consistent across the globe, reinforcing the idea that digital transformation knows no borders,\u201d said Afshin Mohamadi, Partner at Quadrant Strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe warning signs are very clear: while IT departments are meant to spearhead digital business; they aren&#8217;t equipped to do so. IT personnel have significant doubts about their abilities to be the agents of change. The lack of skillset, technology, and bandwidth will lead directly to major competitive challenges.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll of 1,200 IT executives and IT personnel shows significant gap between business expectations and Digital Transformation readiness\u00a0 \u00a0 Survey designed by Commvault and Quadrant Strategies reveals most IT personnel believe they lack the skillset, technology and bandwidth to create a Data-centric Foundation for Innovation Survey reveals troubling lack of readiness; more than 60% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,332,13],"tags":[22,140,159,1544,4242,908,4243,4244,1186],"class_list":["post-20997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-software","category-top-stories","tag-cloud","tag-commvault","tag-cyberattacks","tag-data","tag-data-centric","tag-digital-transformation","tag-infrastructure-centric","tag-measuring-its-readiness-digital-business","tag-survey"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}