Digital Manifesto: Principles and Practices for Orchestrating an IT Value Chain

Business and IT executives are increasingly working side-by-side in an effort to strengthen their company's strategic advantages, capture new markets that are often digital, and realize value from disruptive technologies. Many professionals responsible for defining and executing IT strategy are being continuously pressured to digitize their company's business model and become more agile, innovative, and pro-active, yet they lack the knowledge and guidance to achieve results. This powerful guide from IT executive and digitalization consultant Francois Zielemans provides a set of principles and practices that will help executives connect business and IT teams by adopting a shared belief system and business model, converge or even fuse business and technology life cycles, and increase the agility and effectiveness of the entire digital value chain. Digital Manifesto provides a road map for turning potential value into realized value.

About the Author

Francois Zielemans has over 20 years of IT management and international consulting experience. He is currently an IT executive responsible for the solution engineering business unit of the Centric organization, a European IT provider that delivers infrastructure and software solutions for a variety of markets. While planning and executing digitalization and other projects, Mr. Zielemans applied the principles and practices covered in this book, thus reshaping and further refining them in the process. Prior to joining the Centric organization, Francois advised numerous large multi-national organizations on the digitalization of their business models, leading several organizational transformations in complex and dynamic environments. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science Degree in Business Administration. He is a prolific author and has a popular blog called The Digital Manifesto.