{"id":7832,"date":"2017-11-15T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2017-10-08T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T17:29:07","slug":"digital-transformation-it-should-be-an-investment-and-not-a-cost-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/digital-transformation-it-should-be-an-investment-and-not-a-cost-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Transformation: It Should be an Investment and not a Cost Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_transformation\">Digital transformation<\/a> is the recent buzzword among analysts, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/3689017\">Gartner <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/prodserv\/decisionscapes\/RESOURCES\/ATTACHMENTS\/IDC_254721_ExecBrief_Digital_Transformation.pdf\">IDC<\/a>. It&#8217;s about the adoption of technology to bring innovation into business strategy, operations and customer experience.\u00a0 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been subsumed into the sector now being called Digital Transformation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.prophet.com\/2017-state-digital-transformation?utm_source=prophet&amp;utm_medium=thinking&amp;utm_campaign=2017-state-dt\">recent report<\/a> by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prophet.com\/thinking\/altimeter\/\"> Altimeter Group<\/a> highlights the steps and stages that companies follow to adopt digital tools and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The report identifies some road blocks of the digital transformation journey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lack of digital talent and expertise (31.4 percent)<\/li>\n<li>perception that digital transformation is a cost center and not an investment (31 percent)<\/li>\n<li>cultural roadblocks in adopting digital transformation (31 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of these, one of the most important aspects is the ability to recruit employees with the right skill sets.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Altimeter report found that only about half of companies have any kind of training programs in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briansolis.com\/\">Brian Solis<\/a>, principal analyst at Altimeter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswire.com\/digital-workplace\/digital-transformation-efforts-still-falling-short\/\">said that<\/a> &#8220;the operational models of most companies are designed to be risk averse. 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