| |September 20188expert opinionBy Amajit Gupta, Founder, MD and CEO, QED SigmaAmajit Gupta is a Hi-Tech industry global professional and senior executive associated with IT & Telecom domain since last 25+ years plus in large global tech MNC's like Microsoft, Motorola, Alcatel- Lucent and Juniper Networks. Amajit has been involved in policy and tech advocacy in many government, industry (CII, FICCI) and media forums across this region. He is a regular invited speaker in industry forums and an Angel investor and advisor / board director in mid-sized tech companies including the specialized area of Cyber Security.T he deluge of digital technology forces has driven market transfor-mation to such profound levels, that it has become mandatory for all business to chalk out the strat-egy for adoption to even remain relevant. Industries such as transportation, hotels, retail and many others have been violently dis-rupted by `born -in the cloud' enterprises like Uber, Oyo, and Flipkart. These technologies also called- Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud and IoT -are in-creasingly becoming the basic survival kit for both incumbent as well as entrenched players in today's digital economy. In a recent survey, it was found that 97 percent of the CIO's have a digital transformation plan aligned with business strategy to be executed in next 2-3 years. That's good news for all the CIOs, because business is aligned to the need of these technology lead evolution and, consequent means pre-mandated business buy in. In fact, many progressive organiza-tions today have a CXO, not CIO, driving the digital SUCCESS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DEPENDS ON YOUR PREPAREDNESS FOR IT RESILIENCE PLAN
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