Workshop 3: Digital Transformation in Practice:
                           BiSL Next and IT4B
          Amit Sarkar                                                          Walter Zondervan
    Dept of Computing, Ara                                                  The Competence Society,
    Institute of Canterbury,                                                    The Netherlands
          New Zealand

                                                      researched and adopted lifecycles of business
1    Scope                                            applications development and information/data
IT is a maelstrom of mixed methods, best              management.
practices and competences. Business meanwhile         BiSL next and IT4B are used to assist enterprises
is focused on the beneficial outcomes of              to assess their overall readiness for digitization
investment in many areas. The ubiquity of IT          (large or small scale) and document the overall
makes it clear to investors that more and more        program for improvement and what is needed for
business processes must be based on IT and            success.
therefore the buzzword ‘digitization’ is
commonly in use to describe any IT activity,          2    Topics of Interest
however trivial, that might impact business
                                                      Learn how to
success. The unpleasant reality (or realIT…) is
                                                          to translate your business strategy into a
that a coherent approach to Governance, Strategy
                                                             digital ambition
and therefore Improvement of business outcomes
                                                          to apply new technologies in a meaningful
using IT is in the hands of global IT
                                                             way into your enterprise
consultancies that promote specific best practices,
                                                          to assess organizational readiness for
or methods and IT installations. A good example
                                                             digital transformation
is the ‘Big Data’ phenomenon, a genuine issue
                                                          to bridge the gap between digital ambition
but one open to any snake oil.
                                                             and current organizational readiness
An independent approach to both business
                                                          to improve on the organizational
information digitization and organisational
                                                             competence for digital transformation
readiness was a gap in the market which has been
                                                          to create detailed skills requirements for
addressed by the Dutch government sponsored
                                                             customized training and rapid recruitment
Business information services library (BISL next,
                                                          to design an efficient and effective
the latest version) and its strategic development,
                                                             operating model for digital transformation
IT4B (IT for business).
These independent best practices adhere to the
proven Deming/Shewhart PDCA/PDSA cycle
and provide a consistent approach to Governance
specifically          and            organizational
change/improvement. The myriad IT best
practices that exist are not discarded or
reinvented; they are contextualized in the well-