By: Jeetu Patel, SVP Platform & Chief Strategy Officer

As digital transformation sweeps across the enterprise world, businesses are reinventing their models and even their brands.

Such companies are learning how to capitalize on the massive opportunities that digital initiatives uncover. They are developing new ways to do business and drive deeper engagement with all stakeholders in the value chain: customers, partners, suppliers, and employees.

The

Disruption Era

What percent of Fortune 500 companies have gone off the list since 2000?

14% A)26% B)37% C)

52% D)None of the above E)

Research Contributor: Steve Denning

How has life expectancy of a company on the Fortune 500 list evolved over 50 years?

50 years vs. 25 years A)

75 years vs. 15 years B)60 years vs. 6 years C)

120 years vs. 40 years D)

None of the above E)

Research Contributor: Steve Denning

In 2015, General Electric generated

in software revenue.

BILLION

Source: Harvard Business Review, The Industries that are being Disrupted the Most by Digital, 2016

Digital disruption of industries in the next 12 months.

39%

43%

47%

50%

51%

52%

52%

53%

57%

57%

61%

64%

72%

The question is no longer if a company needs to transform to

But

Companies digitally transform by removing friction from digital disruption

and improving their core service.

Shipping DVDs Streaming Movies Creating Original Web Series

On the 5-year anniversary of Mark Andreesen’s “Software is eating the world” provocation, today virtually every company

is building digital experiences.

Traditional companies are moving to digital to keep pace with consumers’ base expectations.

apps apps apps

Every company is becoming a

company.

The Isolated Experience of the Physical World

In the physical world, we do not compare in-store experiences across industries.

But in the digital world, every digital experience is compared to one another, and they are all compared with the world’s best digital experiences.

Ease of Use

Design

Login

Checkout

Performance

Notifications

In order to build

that are constantly compared to world-class experiences, companies must try not to spread themselves too thin.

Focus on Your Core

Companies will focus on curating a frictionless experience for their users, and leave the essential, yet non-core, elements to specialists.

PaaS

IaaS

The Modern Development Stack

ContentFunctional PaaS

Communication Payments Email Identity

There’s an emerging class of best-of-breed platforms that power essential functionality in your apps, so you don’t have to.

Transform Your

Remove friction Focus on your core

Use specialists for non-core

Top 10 Lessons from Technology Leaders on Digital Transformation

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