Delivering Digital Innovation: Building Business Capacity for Sustained Software Innovation

Now more than ever, business leaders recognize that delivering software innovation is a key requirement for remaining competitive and creating differentiation. Building customer value is tied to the ability to develop, deploy, and run high-quality applications with increasing frequency. Organizations must become software producers —not only software consumers —at increasing speed and scale.

As a result, many companies are redesigning the application development and delivery function as a strategic business capability. The software supply chain —starting with generating novel ideas, building an agile development process, and creatively sharing software via APIs, open source licensing models, or developer ecosystems —has become critical to supporting the most important business outcomes.