Are your teams spinning their wheels or working together to deliver compelling digital experiences?
Creating compelling, meaningful experiences is hard. Sometimes it feels like IT and the line of business are working at cross-purposes or speaking different languages. IT wants to create a secure, scalable platform that they can rely on and run cost-effectively. The business is looking for tools they can use to quickly understand their audience and create compelling, consistent, content-rich experiences that they can control and modify themselves.
More often than not, there is a disconnect between IT and the business when it comes to deploying digital experiences, and that’s when you end up expending your energy rowing in circles and not making much forward progress. In a December 2018 Forrester Consulting study, they found that while 61 percent of IT professionals believe their firm has a considerably/completely integrated digital experience strategy, only 48 percent of business professionals feel the same way. The study, commissioned by HCL, also found that in many cases metrics for these groups are not aligned, which results in the mismatch of priorities and perceptions of success. This misalignment prevents companies from delivering world-class experiences.
Exceptional digital experience requires an integrated architecture of analytics, process, culture, technology, and content, as wellas an ecosystem that supports customers, employees, and partners. This does not mean that IT or the business should give up its autonomy; they must instead find opportunities to align their goals, systems, and responsibilities for better results.
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