INDUSTRY WATCH
C
an you describe
recent technology
initiatives at Deloitte
and how they serve your
business needs?
The foundation principles of
enterprise architecture principles
ensure that there is strong alignment
between technology initiatives and
business outcomes at Deloitte. We
view technology initiatives through
three different lenses – long term
strategic initiatives, medium term
business focused initiatives and short
term optimisation initiatives.
Long term strategic initiatives are
platforms that have the potential
to disrupt and transform the
professional services industry. For
example, the advent of automation
as envisaged in the last few years has
the potential to substantially impact
the way we conduct and deliver our
services. Similarly, technologies such
as blockchain has the potential of
changing the way financial services
are rendered in the market place and
hence require due attention.
Medium term business focused
initiatives are platforms that require
re-architecting the current landscape
of applications, infrastructure and
services to deliver a business outcome.
These initiatives may be in the
shape of adding an application to
the technology stack, creating new
interfaces for integration between
current systems, re-architecting
business processes, enhancement of
current systems for additional features
and functionality or leveraging
technologies such as cloud to
restructure current capabilities.
Short term optimisation initiatives
are platforms that enable us to either
drive cost benefits or greater client
insight. These include a number of
services based initiatives such as
structuring our in-house capabilities vs
outsourcing opportunities for internal
technology services. This platform is
also used for digital initiatives that
enable us to extend our applications
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THE OVERARCHING
GOAL OF MINIMISING
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How has been Deloitte’s
journey in leveraging cloud
technologies?
Elastic growth is a reality of the new
world – in the ME region or anywhere
else. Economically this means that the
demand of a particular good or service
is directly affected by its price. Due to
the nature of demand in the region it
becomes critical for businesses to be
able to scale up as business volumes
rise and scale down operating costs as
demand diminishes. Cloud services offer
this capability to the business.
Leading CIOs are looking at cloud
adoption as a journey. They realise
that they cannot just re-purpose
their infrastructure and application
stack overnight to cloud and expect
to achieve operational efficiencies. It
is important to look at cloud beyond
the attributes of faster, better,
and cheaper, by collaborating with
business stakeholders to re-engineer
technology units into discrete and
manageable services.
Why are some organisations
unable to realise the broader
value of cloud?
Just like any transition, the move
towards cloud capabilities requires a
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