
Accelerating Data-first Modernisation to Derive Value from Data
CIO Review APAC | Tuesday, September 12, 2023

To deliver the data-driven societal benefits and significant digital experiences citizens expect, the public sector should accelerate digital transformation and capabilities to control the gain of value using public data.
FREMONT, CA:The pandemic was a catalyst in making digital transformation not just a priority but an imperative for businesses. Yet, the private sector’s digital transformation has outpaced that of the public sector.
Most public service leaders worldwide agreed that technology architecture was becoming critical to overall organisational success, and many believed obsolete technology was holding them back. In addition to this, another major challenge is a lack of digital and technology skills.
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In both the public and private domains, inaction inhibits the ability to deliver outcomes for stakeholders and delayed digital modernisation of organisations results in missed opportunities. The future belongs to agile and resilient businesses, and those with future-ready digital foundations will outperform those who lack digital transformation expertise and rely on legacy technologies.
Accelerating Data-first Modernisation
Leading businesses fuel the age of insight that occurred a few years ago, focusing on deriving value from the massive data quantities created regularly. They empower this by securing the tools and skills to quickly extract value from data. Following their lead, the public sector should rapidly develop the ability to leverage growing volumes of data to add meaningful value.
Public sectors are commonly spread across silos and trapped in legacy systems, an issue many private-sector organisations also encounter. Governments should leverage data that is increasingly distributed without centralising all data. The modern edge-to-cloud platform enables any company to shift from simply capturing data and immediately extracting value for them to better serve citizens. The capability to extract value from data should lie with the data generators themselves.
The global public sector must treat data as a sovereign resource. Public sectors should master their own digital destinies to drive digital transformation for their constituents, ceding sovereignty and trust to private companies and undermining overall trust in state authorities.
While the public sector’s digital transformation issues are as well-recorded as nationally varied, there is a perplexity on how governments can generate powerful outcomes when properly connecting and leveraging data. Regardless of debates over pandemic policies, real-time data and insights enable citizens, health workers, and officials to plan for daily life and work. In some regions, the public sector digital transformation was fast due to demanding circumstances, and the socio-economic value of state-scale data gathering was profound.
Deriving value from data is essential to enabling governments to advance their policy goals, from enhancing healthcare and defence to improving education and safeguarding the environment. To deliver the data-driven societal advantages and rich digital experiences that individuals demand, the public sector must accelerate its pace and ability to control value creation using public data.
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