CIO Straight Talk - Issue 7 - 4

Editor-in-Chief Paul Hemp
Managing Editor Neha Anand
Contributing Editor Stephanie Overby

Something Old,
Something New

Associate Editor Venumadhav Pandit
Copy Editor Lucy McCauley
Art Director Natasha Mehra
Project Management Shamsul Zuberi, Samuel Choppara
Creative Support Harish Kumar Chandani
Digital and Social Megha Dhawan
Distribution and Leverage Venumadhav Pandit
Editorial Advisory Board Anant Gupta, Matt Preschern,
Jaco van Eeden, Apurva Chamaria
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Acknowledgements
Viswanathan Chandrasekharan, Debraj Saha, Nishant Sinha,
Kottul Rajesh Kumar, Hitesh Parekh, Hiranya Bhardwaj,
Saurabh Singhal, Aditya Tulsian, Regina O Keeffe, Namit
Agrawal, Ravi Singh, Kaivalya Kashyap, Saurabh Singhal,
Paresh Vankar, Shimona Chadha, Ravi Kathuria, Atul Kurlekar,
Sundararaman N

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"Digital" may seem like the Next Big Thing. But the
concept of digital (an adjective that has been pressed into
service as the shorthand name for digital transformation
of the enterprise) has been around for years. A popular
business book in 2000 was How Digital Is Your Business?
- this, back in the days of Who Moved My Cheese?
What's new is the way companies are beginning to carry
out the idea of "going digital." After more than a decade
of plug-in solutions and tactical moves prompted by new
technology rather than business needs, businesses are
realizing that digitalization requires a holistic approach.
In the lead article of this issue's special section, Michael
Nilles, winner of the 2015 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership
Award, describes how Swiss elevator company Schindler
wove together numerous digital initiatives to create
tremendous value for the company and its customers. We
hope that this and other articles in the section - including
one by HCL's own Manoj Kumbhat - offer insights that
you can apply in your business.
Such peer-to-peer sharing of professional insights is
the raison d'etre of a new Straight Talk forum for senior
executives responsible for digital transformation in their
organizations. The Digital Straight Talk community will
live on the new Straight Talk online portal,
-- www.straighttalkonline.com -- along with the CIO
and CTO Straight Talk communities, which are migrating
there after several years on LinkedIn. We encourage you
to check out all three groups at www.straighttalkonline.
com/community. (To ensure that conversations in these
groups are at the highest level, membership is limited to
CIOs, CTOs, and other CxOs and Director-plus executives.)
Finally, in response to input from readers, the CIO
Straight Talk logo has been given a new and more
contemporary look. One thing that won't change is what
the logo stands for - the candid exchange of insights
among senior technology leaders, whether in the
magazine, online, at events, or in one of the vibrant
Straight Talk communities.

Paul Hemp
Editor-in-Chief
CIO Straight Talk
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