target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Feb 2023 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US50243123
Enable More Rapid Digital Transformation by Addressing Technical Debt — Future Enterprise Planning Guide
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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to address technical debt (unfunded liabilities) and prevent it from becoming a barrier to meeting enterprise goals. The planning guide includes peer advice and clear steps for assessing the current situation as well as ways to communicate to business leaders both the value of addressing debt and the risks of waiting. CIOs will also gain a framework to identify and manage technical debt, remediate it, and prevent future debt.
The framework helps technology leaders facilitate the discussion about how IT constraints, liability, and funding affect enterprise priorities and capabilities. "It's crucial for the CIO to demonstrate to senior management how technical debt remediation is essential to achieving high-priority business goals," say Cora Carmody, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs. "Ignoring it limits organizational ability to compete and innovate as debt drags down digital transformation."
Technical debt threatens organizations' ability to maintain normal operations, to innovate, to scale, and to transform. Technical debt is not a one-time issue. Enterprises that address it and establish long-term debt management processes will gain speed and flexibility from improved capabilities.