Turn and face the change

From fintech to healthcare and in smart cities and transport, digital transformation has become the watchword of modern enterprise and government IT. But which technologies truly help organisations devise transformative strategies to benefit from digital opportunities? Jason Walsh reports

Developing a digital transformation strategy is now considered not a ‘blue-sky’ project, but an immediate need. Facing pressure from competitors, including new digital-first entrants, many an apparently entrenched business is now resolving to look at exactly how it does business, and what systems it can deploy to smooth out and speed up this business.

But, behind the jargon — agile, DevOps, artificial intelligence, machine learning, even digital transformation itself — how are businesses ...