How do some companies become digital leaders? Bain benchmarked more than 250 companies in Europe and North America to find out how some move faster than others and manage to develop new capabilities.

Take the brief survey below to compare your IT organization to digital leaders:

1 Aligned business priorities

Place technology at the heart of business strategy and operations

Are our funding and governance systems effective in enabling rapid decisions and execution progress?

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Traditional annual budgeting, with limited ability to adjust along the way

2 Agile technology operating model

Embrace modern techniques to deliver speed, agility and innovation

Are our software delivery processes enabling us to deliver at digital speed, with weekly or monthly releases along with longer cycles?

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Waterfall-basedWaterfall models are sequential, progressing steadily through a series of long phases4 project model, with detailed scoping and long release cycles (6-12 months)

Do we have the right operating model to continuously enable effective innovation?

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Lack of focus or resources around innovation

3 Adaptable architecture

Leverage modern architecture design when building a new stack, modernizing or creating new applications

Can we integrate existing and new incoming data effectively to generate meaningful insights for digital engagements?

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Are our systems and data well integrated internally and with external third parties?

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Lack of seamless integration between applications and data

Is our infrastructure scalable and flexible to meet increasing digital demand in a cost-effective manner?

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Traditional model with IT-owned data centers, long lead time for provisioning and limited automation of development and test

Do we have appropriate capabilities (skills, process, tools) to protect our customer and data assets?

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Cybersecurity addressed only at infrastructure level

4 Affordable journey

Ensure that IT organizations can afford and achieve the projects

Have we allocated necessary and sufficient funding to running our business, modernizing IT, and building new digital capabilities?

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Running the business: 70%
Modernizing and new initiatives: 30%

Do we have a credible plan and focus to self-fund new digital capabilities and investments?

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  • Laggards
  • #Your organization
  • Leaders

1 Aligned business priorities

Place technology at the heart of business strategy and operations

Are our funding and governance systems effective in enabling rapid decisions and execution progress?

Traditional annual budgeting, with limited ability to adjust along the way

2 Agile technology operating model

Embrace modern techniques to deliver speed, agility and innovation

Are our software delivery processes enabling us to deliver at digital speed, with weekly or monthly releases along with longer cycles?

Waterfall-basedWaterfall models are sequential, progressing steadily through a series of long phases4 project model, with detailed scoping and long release cycles (6-12 months)

Do we have the right operating model to continuously enable effective innovation?

Lack of focus or resources around innovation

3 Adaptable architecture

Leverage modern architecture design when building a new stack, modernizing or creating new applications

Can we integrate existing and new incoming data effectively to generate meaningful insights for digital engagements?

Are our systems and data well integrated internally and with external third parties?

Lack of seamless integration between applications and data

Is our infrastructure scalable and flexible to meet increasing digital demand in a cost-effective manner?

Traditional model with IT-owned data centers, long lead time for provisioning and limited automation of development and test

Do we have appropriate capabilities (skills, process, tools) to protect our customer and data assets?

Cybersecurity addressed only at infrastructure level

4 Affordable journey

Ensure that IT organizations can afford and achieve the projects

Have we allocated necessary and sufficient funding to running our business, modernizing IT, and building new digital capabilities?

Running the business: 70%
Modernizing and new initiatives: 30%

Do we have a credible plan and focus to self-fund new digital capabilities and investments?

Thank you for completing our Digital IT Diagnostic.

To learn more about our benchmark findings, see the Bain Brief Rebooting IT: What separates digital leaders from the rest.

If you would like to discuss your diagnostic results or any other IT challenges with one of our experts, please contact us.