target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Oct 2022 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US49743222
The Future of Connectedness: Top 5 Connectivity Investments to Drive Enterprise Business Agility
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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines how enterprise connectivity challenges, business initiatives, investments, and priorities for connectedness are aligned to enterprise business agility goals. This Tech Buyer Presentation is part one of a series of four enterprise-focused presentations that analyzes data from IDC's 2022 Future of Connectedness Survey. The survey respondents were either the primary decision makers or part of a team within the enterprise that makes connectivity investment decisions. These top purchasing decisions become drivers of agility and fit within one of the four cornerstones of agility that the future enterprise can achieve as part of their larger transformation strategy.
Business agility is a core outcome that centers on building competitive advantage. While agility is not an endpoint (and never will be), it is an ongoing goal based on embracing ongoing innovation and adapting to change, driven by appropriate investment in technology, processes, and functions that help businesses gain competitive advantage. The expression "turning on a dime" is one that echoes what business agility brings to the table; that is, enterprises can take strategic action to ensure that they can rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes. It also encompasses the ability to make smart, data-driven decisions; be flexible to change; and address issues along the way to maintain that competitive edge.
IDC believes that business agility cannot be achieved without investment in a larger "connectedness" strategy that embraces the appropriate network and IT investments, which allow an organization to both function efficiently and adapt in real time. Addressing changing internal corporate and external customer demands cannot happen if organizations cannot connect systems, processes, and people with data from inside and outside the organization and share it appropriately to make the right decisions. As such, an infrastructure strategy that embraces next-generation connectivity along with the support of appropriate "legacy" systems will help enable the capabilities to ensure data moves where needed and allow employees to make the right decisions.