PERSPECTIVE
Organizations need to build a modern, ever-ready infrastructure that is resilient, adaptive, and powered by AI support new technologies and drive innovation.
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May 6, 2025
In today's fast-paced business environment, infrastructure has become more than just a backend piece of technology; it's a key driver of strategic innovation, agility, and expansion. The integration of cutting-edge technologies such as hybrid multi-cloud architectures, AI, edge computing, and advanced networks has opened up new possibilities for companies to act on data swiftly and provide outstanding customer service. Yet, the speed of technological advancement can leave companies with disjointed systems, isolated teams, and operational challenges.
In this context, organizations are tasked with a complex mission: build a secure IT foundation that is resilient, adaptable and capable of adopting new technologies on an ongoing basis. The infrastructure should support current and future AI workloads and advances in artificial intelligence, high performance computing, networks and edge computing.
Organizations today are at a critical juncture, charged with reimagining their entire operating model to remain competitive and forward-thinking. This transformation hinges on the enhancement of the digital core, which stands as the bedrock for reinvention. Yet, the transition from a mere support system to a dynamic catalyst for business reinvention is a formidable challenge. Numerous long-standing obstacles must be addressed, such as:
Building a strong infrastructure foundation requires a structured approach to tackling deeply entrenched barriers like legacy technology, cost constraints, talent shortages and the complexity of hybrid multi-cloud environments. Without a clear plan, you risk piling on more technical debt and missing out on the full benefits of emerging technologies and innovation.
Question is: how can you build an adaptive, ever-ready infrastructure that accelerates innovation, enhances efficiency and ensures resilience? The answer lies in our structured modernization approach, designed to elevate your infrastructure from a cost center to an enabler of reinvention.
The Operationalize phase helps you enhance the infrastructure foundation by addressing governance gaps, controlling spending, upskilling teams, and integrating automation, resulting in a resilient multi-speed operating model for hybrid IT. Done right, it lays the resilient foundation for broader transformation initiatives for the Accelerate and Modernize phases.
In this phase, your infrastructure evolves into a force for speed, agility and efficiency. Your IT goals are in lock step with business needs and strategy, helping to optimize costs, improve agility and transparency, and enable data-driven decision making. This phase is the bridge to building advanced capabilities that will help in rapid modernization in the final phase.
The Modernize phase is where your infrastructure transforms from a support function to a strategic enabler of reinvention, capable of supporting rapid adoption of new technologies. It is key to unlocking the potential of your IT infrastructure to drive innovation and long-term value creation.
The path to contemporary infrastructure is a journey, not a race. Each stage of the Operationalize-Accelerate-Modernize framework is designed to deliver incremental value, ensuring organizations can adapt their strategies to meet both immediate and future needs. By adopting this time-tested methodology, organizations can elevate their infrastructure from a mere technical resource to a pivotal catalyst for growth, resilience, and enduring success.
