Future of Digital Innovation
Deliver innovative services
and experiences at scale
IDC’s Future of Digital Innovation research practice helps organizations build and execute the planning, sourcing, development, and distribution strategies necessary to become high-performance software producers. Operating as “digital innovation factories,” enterprises will embed software in their products and services to create greater value for their customers and better compete in their own industries.
Inside the Future of Digital Innovation
The foundational elements of the Future of Digital Innovation framework comprise:
Plan
Software development must be tightly integrated with – and driven by – the organization’s business plans, which, in turn, need to address resources, sourcing, architecture and deployment options, distribution, licensing and pricing, governance and compliance.
Source
Organizations will shorten development time and create greater scalability by seeking out and using externally sourced code or preassembled components.
Develop
Organizations will use agile methods and more automated, high-speed deployment options as they move to hyperspeed cycles of deployment to production. Applications will be developed in more modular architectures — in the form of microservices.
Distribute
Enterprises will scale distribution of their digital innovations through direct delivery of services and experiences of their own offerings and indirect delivery into others' digital supply chains via open API-based third-party developer ecosystems.
2021 Digital Innovation Awards Videos
Innovating in a Digital-First World
Meredith Whalen – Chief Research Officer, IDC
Digital Innovation Lessons Learned from Award Winners
Nancy Gohring – Research Director, Future of Digital Innovation, IDC
The Bridge to Collaboration
Dan Jeavons – Vice President, Computational Science and Digital Innovation, Shell
Erol Ozguner – CIO, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Meyrick Vaz – Vice President, Strategic Market Partnerships, UnitedHealthcare
Mickey North Rizza – Program Vice President, Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce, IDC
Using a Platform to Create an Improved Customer Experience
Sara Govindarajan – Vice President of Technology, Mattel, Inc.
Toine Cleophas – Research Manager, Damen
Al Gillen – Group Vide President, Software Development and Open Source, IDC
Building a Connected Experience with Digital Innovation
Nancy Gohring – Research Director, Future of Digital Innovation, IDC
Franz Hochstrasser – CEO and Co-Founder, Raise Green
Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Riley – Detachment 24, 19th Air Force, Air Education and Training Command
Fireside Chat with Jotun – Rethinking the Definition of a Product
Stein Kjolberg – Global Category Director, Hull Performance, Jotun A/S
Juliana Beauvais – Research Manager, Enterprise Applications, IDC
Digital Innovation as a Predictor of the Future
Nancy Gohring – Research Director, Future of Digital Innovation, IDC