IT managers are critical enablers of business success and innovation.
Agility, collaboration, and adoption are well-known characteristics of successful innovators. Unless the foundations are solid and you live up to your goals, these are just hollow principles.
Digital infrastructure is a critical component in this regard, but it is frequently overlooked. As a result, unexpected disappointments with key stakeholders occur; the innovation process slows or even becomes a bottleneck.
Obviously, development speed is important in many sectors. Speed gives you an advantage over your competition. In a lot of cases, innovation is all about bringing the right products and services to the market faster than the competition. But there’s much more to it than just how quickly you can develop new products and services. It’s also about the speed and ease of communication with your partners, to facilitate and support fast development. Your communication must be fast, open, and reliable.
Digital collaboration
The second characteristic of innovation is that it’s based on collaboration. Innovation is about working together, and these days that means digital collaboration, using multiple applications and technologies. I strongly believe that more than ever, innovation stems from people who are relying on remote collaboration. That means it’s vital that everything fits together seamlessly and integrates without having to implement workarounds.
Open technology makes it easy to collaborate, use, and test applications and technologies. It is also essential to collect, store, exchange, and analyze data. Modern innovation is the result of partnerships, using toolsets from a wide variety of suppliers, different types of cloud technology, etc. But what are technologies and innovations worth if they aren’t underpinned by a high-performance network? Just imagine we didn’t have such a network. How would we have gotten through the coronavirus crisis?
Always available
The third key element for innovation is adoption. You’ll agree with me when I say an innovation is only successful if it’s adopted by your customers, partners, or employees. Adoption comes with ease of use and availability. Let’s face it, we don’t accept interruptions or incidents when using technology anymore. We want technology to work all the time and at high speed. Unresponsive applications are relics from the past.
A high-speed secured network with symmetrical bandwidth that’s open to all technologies and applications from all vendors is where innovation really starts. This enables you to successfully develop your applications and grow your business. Just look at how startups gain momentum these days, purely based on APIs and the cloud. Their approach depends entirely on the availability, scalability, and security of a high-speed network. And that’s exactly what fiber has in store. Without such a network, innovation is impossible.
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