This session will share IDC’s thought leadership on how successful organizations are investing and transforming themselves to realize digital at scale and the areas and activities that the CDOs ought to be thinking about, providing leadership on, and guiding their organizations through this transformation journey.

Digital transformation represents the single largest business shift since the industrial revolution. IDC forecasts $6.6 trillion of direct DX investment in related hardware, software, and services through 2022. Out of these investments, CEOs expect to see over $18 trillion of economic value-add from digitally enabled products, services, and operating capabilities. Key among the digital technology investments are cloud, big data and analytics, cognitive computing/artificial intelligence, and IoT. In addition to these technologies, successful transformation will engage people, process, data, and governance for sustaining digital.