| |January 201819CIOReviewo compete and thrive in the face of market chal-lenges, organizations need to embrace Digi-tal Reinvention. Over the past two decades, businesses have worked through a digital Maturation. As digital technologies emerged, companies progressively digitized processes and functions as they tran-sitioned from analog to digital.Digital Reinvention goes much further. Combining multiple tech-nologies, including cloud, cogni-tive, mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Reinvention rethinks customer and partner re-lationships from a need-, use- or aspiration-first perspective.Enterprise visionaries and leaders of the industries have a tendency to achieve their objectives better than their peers by doing things differ-ently. They breathe the opportunity and grab it to implement as a result of which they are usually the path-finders for new markets; and they accelerate away from competition by creating efficiencies.Cloud provides an ultra-flexible way to run services and try out new things without jumping through the usual hoops of IT provisioning.CIOs need to carefully plan, evaluate their cloud JourneyHow can your organization define its successful path to the cloud? Here are some considerations that need to be taken into account, when investigat-ing before moving to the cloud.Identification of Business Specific Objectives to achieveToday's Cloud computing has be-come over hyped, with many market-ing campaigns, due to which, most CIOs want to ride the big wave. It is very important to know your strategy and business objectives to achieve. CXO INSIGHTSTPLAN AND EVALUATE YOUR CLOUD JOURNEY CAREFULLY! By Rajeev Pradhan, Vice President - Information Technology, Arshiya LimitedArshiya is an integrated supply chain and logistics infrastructure solutions provider. Rajeev Pradhan
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