Perspectives On Asia's BT Journey

CIOs in Asia face an inconvenient truth: transform or be overwhelmed by the forces of change. These forces include the consumerization of IT, "everything-as-a-service," enterprise mobility, big data, and analytics. The sooner CIOs deal with these dynamics, the easier it will be for them to adapt to the new world of IT — a world that Forrester refers to as business technology (BT). BT builds on the basics of enterprise IT and helps CIOs become more effective business leaders who leverage pervasive technology use to bind technology to business strategy and drive business results. This report provides four process-oriented best practices and two observations on technology use from Forrester's CIO Summit APAC 2012 in Singapore to outline how CIOs in Asia Pacific are leveraging BT to shape their organizations' business vision.