What's your preferred strategy for ensuring business-technology alignment when assessing emerging technologies?

Innovation & Emerging Trends

Business first: define needs, then seek technological solutions68%

Technology first: identify promising technologies, then determine business use cases30%

Unsure2%

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Fractional CIO in Services (non-Government)7 months ago

Business first. If the technology doesn't solve a business problem, you really shouldn't waste time on it.

CEO in Services (non-Government)7 months ago

You always start with the problem you're trying to solve. Emerging technologies are tools - not strategy. You don’t let the tool dictate the blueprint; you choose the right tool to bring your business vision to life. Tech should serve the mission, not define it.

VP IMIT & CIO7 months ago

This is an interesting dichotomy...(the Egg) - You need to be aware of the capabilities (and limitations) of promising technologies to evaluate its potential application to existing business requirements and operations, not to mention gaps / opportunities; equally, (the Chicken) - You need to understand your business architecture, its strategy, and the opportunities to express or alter a competitive advantage (differentiator) to further explore and/or discover emerging technologies. Once you have an initial 'potential' match, one needs to 'take it to the next level' in a PoC or Pilot...then rinse and repeat.

Director of IT in Government7 months ago

I've seen too many times in many different organizations where the business get's sold on a technology and it becomes a solution looking for a problem and generally ends up being wasted and leaves a bad taste for what may have been a great technology.

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