Formula 4.0 for Digital Transformation

Venkatesh Upadrista is currently leading digital transformation for several clients across UK and Ireland, Benelux and France regions for a large IT Services company. He has been recognized as an exceptional digital talent leader by UK Tech Nation and is recipient of several national and international awards. He is a board advisor to digital start-ups and provides his guidance on technology trends to develop competitive products and service offerings. Mr. Upadrista is a thought leader in the digital transformation space. In his career of more than two decades experience, he got an opportunity to consult several Fortune 500 companies on large scale enterprise level digital transformations. Mr. Upadrista has also provided his guidance to several enterprises in areas of Cloud Transformation, IoT & Blockchain implementation, Project to Product Transformation, and Agile-DevOps set-up, and he used these varied experiences in crafting this book. Mr. Upadrista began compiling technical encyclopedias as a high school student. He took the vast collection of experimental facts from various sources and the research that he had been accumulating since several years and began to deploy them throughout his professional experience. He is an advisor to a number of digital initiatives in UK and has been a partner to CIOs of several large organizations to help them define ways to improve their business using technology. His experience moves across technology and sales leadership. He has worked in a blended mixture of the onsite/offshore model, and through his experience, he has helped many customers move their strategies to gain several qualitative and quantitative benefits.

Foreword by Erik Verrijssen. Foreword by Simon Hollins. Foreword by Satyanarayana Murthy. Foreword by Raahil Burhaani. Foreword by Julia Sattel. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Section I INTRODUCTION TO FORMULA 4.0. 1 A Generic Industry Perspective on Digital Transformation. 2 Business-Driven Digital Transformation Framework: Formula 4.0. Section II IDENTIFYING BUSINESS PROCESSES FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION USING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN THINKING. 3 Business Strategy for Digital Transformation. 4 Business Transformation Model and Intelligent Business Transformation Model. Section III FOUNDATION PLATFORM. 5 Creating a Foundation Platform with Digital Triplets (Atomic Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, and Application Programming Interface). 6 Cloud Infrastructure. 7 SAP Cloud Migration. 8 Application Programming Interface (API). Section IV PEOPLE, PROCESSES, AND TOOLS. 9 Product Organization. 10 Human Resource Management. 11 Importance of DevSecOps in a Product-Based Organization. Section V DATA ANALYTICS, AUTOMATION, IT-OT INTEGRATION, AND ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE. 12 Big Data and Analytics. 13 Automation with RPA and AI-ML. 14 IT-OT Integration. 15 Enterprise Governance. Section VI BRINGING THE PIECES TOGETHER. 16 The Formula 4.0 Methodology: Bringing All Capabilities Together for Digital Transformation. Index.