Technology and corporate leadership

A business, a company, an organization, are all groups of people working together for the same purpose. In general terms, these are groups that seek some kind of financial gain, although there are also groups of people who work without the intention of making a profit. Whatever the case may be, it is now clear that all of them need to use technology to achieve their objectives as a group, since the global environment is highly technological and only with business technology is it possible to keep up with the pace of world trade.

In addition to this, it is also clear that a key element of an organization is leadership. Without leadership, it is not possible for everyone to keep the same pace and for interactions between participants to be fluid and occur at the right time. The leader is the one who sets the values to be worked on and seeks to maintain high spirits and motivation so that the stumbling blocks and challenges are overcome to achieve the objectives.

Now, given the conditions of the contemporary world, we are not only talking about leading and technology as two separate organizational aspects, but we are also trying to think about how to lead a business technologically. That is to say, to review whether the technological elements are not something isolated, but are part of the fundamental scheme of the business and its strategies to face difficult situations and maintain a high level of motivation.

There are some keys that can be taken into account to determine whether or not there is good technological leadership. For example, expert Mark P. McDonald states that “growth is technology’s Job 1 in the digital economy and business that lead with technology are not afraid to use it”. If a company uses its IT assets only as a secondary support, it is not having technology leadership within it.

As a result, a company that leads with technology Uses Technology to create and expand strategic options rather than seeing IT as a way to enable options previously chosen. When you look at technology after the strategy is set you fall into a trap that destroys competitive advantage. As one leader put it. “Every company works from a similar set of rules, but competitiveness comes from the underlying technologies and the differences it creates.” Those differences surface when technology creates differences that matter. (blogs.gartner.com).

Business Process Management and leadership with technology

Business Process Management is a method of corporate leadership and at the same time is the name given to a software that seeks to have that kind of leadership. What this solution does is precisely to stand before and not after establishing the corporate strategy, to determine, through the use of a process modeling, what is the best way to structure the organization so that it has a sustained growth.

In other words, it is a solution that becomes a true leader within a technological system. Thus, this software is aligned with the quality to see “technology as a business consideration rather than sloughing it off to a functional group known as IT. If business involvement is primarily in funding and approving IT projects, then you are not leading the business with tech, you are enabling it with IT” (blogs.gartner.com).

What this software specifically seeks to do is to automate the company’s processes, which means making them faster and at the same time more reliable. This automation also introduces the entire business strategy into the digital world, which creates more efficient communication channels with customers, employees, partners, managers, etc. This new rhythm, based on the speed of technology, is in itself a way of leading with technology, since it is a change that transforms the entire business from its foundations.

Technology is, therefore, a new way of thinking and planning businesses, and basically consists of a faster connection with other businesses and other corporate leaders:

Have low walls within their organization and between their organization, customers, providers, suppliers etc. Businesses that lead with technology recognize that no firm can afford to own every element of a solution – it is just too expensive, too bureaucratic, and too unwieldly. So, they foster low walls that allow resources to flow to the challenge or opportunity regardless of their source. The alternative is to partition the problem and hope it all comes together in the end. An approach that rarely works. (blogs.gartner.com)

Dexon Software is a company that seeks to be an ally of its customers so that their organizations can achieve true leadership with technology. Our Dexon BPM solution seeks this interconnection and speed, while putting technology at the core of the business. For this, with our process modeler we help to rethink the structure of the business and understand how to cultivate specific values so that the entire team is aligned with this. Then, automation makes the walls between departments more flexible and communication with customers more streamlined. 

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