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Technology is now a driving force at the core of modern organizations. As emerging technologies expand exponentially, the need for technical capabilities requires a seismic shift that takes technology ownership from IT and puts it into the hands of the organization. Use this research to guide the ownership of curated technologies to leaders across your organization and expand your capacity for innovation, growth, and collaboration.

Emerging technologies have fundamentally transformed how organizations operate, making technology essential not just for IT, but for every function of the modern organization. CIOs and IT leaders must shift from gatekeepers of technology to enablers of a business-led approach, embracing a distributed ownership model that brings shadow IT into the light and enables risk-appropriate adoption of technology by leaders across departments.

1. Understand the internal appetite before you place an order.

Assuming individual leaders or your entire organization are ready to adopt an embedded technology model is the surest way to fail before ²â´Ç³Ü’v±ð begun. Embedding technology ownership across your organization requires widespread support and ongoing buy-in from leaders. Assess everyone’s readiness for a new way of operating and leverage these findings to guide your approach.

2. 91ÖÆƬ³§ trust with your organizational leaders.

As ownership of select technologies is distributed to organizational leaders, the relationships that IT builds with these leaders become as important as technical knowledge. Leaders who suddenly own technologies without a complete understanding of internal limits or a clear line of communication with IT are less likely to successfully embrace ownership.

3. Align your initiatives with the needs of your customers.

There are infinite ways to begin embedding technology in your organization, making it difficult to prioritize where to start. Leverage your reference architecture to understand when and where customers obtain the greatest value from your organization and use this to find the most impactful opportunities to embed technology.

Use our comprehensive blueprint to design and build an embedded IT operating model for your organization.

Our research can guide the creation of a modern IT operating model suited to the needs of your organization and the demands of your customers or constituents. Remove the barriers that have historically siloed technology from the organization and distribute ownership using this in-depth blueprint with a robust set of tools and templates to:

• Assess the readiness of your organization to become more technology enabled with an Exponential IT Operating Model.
• Align your approach to how customers or constituents receive value from your organization.
• Identify opportunities to realistically embed and empower enterprise leaders to own IT capabilities.
• Communicate your plan clearly to enterprise executives to gain buy-in.