siliconindia | | MARCH 20199Innovators believe that the role of the project manager will evolve to one that advocates for the technology, motivates teams to implement, supervises course corrections, and becomes an authority on disruptive technologiesgoing to succeed in the future. There-fore, the government and organiza-tions need to account for the new changes in technology.As organizations face increas-ingly complex challenges from such forces as innovation, disruption, and the demands of a global business en-vironment, the inextricable link be-tween strategy and implementation must be addressed. Organizations like these realize that disruptive tech-nologies can give them a competitive advantage by improving the customer experience, enhancing employee effi-ciency, and shortening project time-lines. They harness technology to change the way they operate, and the way they manage projects. Organizations that want to un-derstand and manage the impact of technologies, viz. Cloud Solutions, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Advanced Robotics, Voice-driven Software, can look to proven project management practices to sur-vive and thrive during these times of change. As they embrace project ex-cellence, they will experience greater success with their strategic initiatives and higher project rates. We see an average of 71 percent of the projects of innovators ­ organizations, as per our research that have a mature digi-tal transformation strategy, are risk tolerant, and have adopted and made disruptive technologies a priority to meet the original goals or business intent. Innovators can commit to excellence by following the below mentioned points.Using Disruptive Technologies to Their BenefitWe see that innovators are leveraging these technologies to their advantage to encourage greater efficiency and automation, increase productivity, promote the development of better products & services, automate mundane tasks, advance innovation, and drive better decision making.Embracing the Value Delivery Landscape As innovators look to compete in fu-ture ways of working, they are using the full spectrum of competencies that enable organizations to deliver their projects & programs or the val-ue delivery landscape.Elevating the Project ManagerInnovators believe that the role of the project manager will evolve to one that advocates for the technol-ogy, motivates teams to implement, supervises course corrections, and becomes an authority on disruptive technologies. In conclusion, while we realize that challenges lie ahead, we see a considerable reason for op-timism for the future of work and the role project management plays. Since all strategic change happens through projects and programs, proven project management practices remain crucial to an organization's success.
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