Digitisation is impacting all industries and economies in fundamental ways. It’s forcing companies, institutions and governments to re-think business and operating models and re-evaluate where future competitive advantage will come from. The...
Digitisation is impacting all industries and economies in fundamental ways. It’s forcing companies, institutions and governments to re-think business and operating models and re-evaluate where future competitive advantage will come from. The convening of the Digital Summits at Cisco Live 2019 in Melbourne, was recognition that while these changes manifest differently in various industry sectors, the core technology enablers are common. Secure IT networks, IoT, mobility and cloud are examples of technologies that offer both opportunities and challenges for organisations. These challenges relate to business processes, leadership, people and strategy as well as the technology itself. The purpose of the Digital Summits was to identify how organisations across a range of sectors are dealing with digitisation in its various forms and, more importantly, to learn from each other. The education track of the Digital Summit was particularly rich given that universities, technical training colleges and schools have a role to play in all industries, as well as being early adopters of technology in their own right. To this end a thriving, innovative and digitised education sector is critical to the high performance and competitiveness of the wider economy. This report, jointly produced by KPMG and Cisco, synthesises the rich discussions in the education track of the Digital Summits. It also includes practical examples of how organisations are responding to the opportunities presented by digitisation. The report is record of the key themes and insights discussed at the Summit. It is also is intended to be a starting point for an ongoing collaboration and our hope is that it will be shared, debated and most importantly, disseminated widely.
Ruma Balasubramanian Chief Transformation Officer, Asia Pacific, Japan & China, Cisco Systems