Global Technology Office
Our Global Technology Office (GTO) ensures that eWit keeps fingers on the pulse of our most important markets – and makes sure we're training and developing world-class technologists while creating technology communities.
Customers are demanding a more sophisticated understanding of their businesses, their architectures, and their technology strategies. They also expect eWit to have definite perspectives on the key technology developments that will impact their businesses, as well as a high level of competency in those technologies.
The GTO is eWit's answer to those requirements - a strong focal point for driving technology leadership across eWit and into the market. It guarantees that we have informed, in-context viewpoints on new and emerging technologies, the best means of dispersing that knowledge, and the breadth of skills to be able to convey it satisfactorily and efficiently to clients.
In short, the GTO is the “technology engine” that enables eWit to give better and better guidance to clients who increasingly realize that their software architectures have a significant bearing on their business choices. As such, the GTO is also a laboratory, training center, and arbitration center, with these goals:
- Create and share technology best practices across the company
- Champion technical career growth
- Create local communities of architects and technologists
- Drive centers of excellence (CoEs) in local geographies
- Review, oversee, and provide due diligence on projects' technology issues
- Identify and review emerging technologies
- Innovate with new service offerings
Each year, the GTO hosts our eWit Technology Summit. The idea is to raise the level of emphasis on technology across the company, to put the spotlight on the “hot” technologies that will make most quickly a difference for clients, and to set eWit's technology agenda for coming year.
Centers of Excellence
Managed by the Global Technology Office, the Centers of Excellence (CoEs) are small focused groups that demonstrate leadership and high-level capabilities in eight key technology areas. Each group combines world-class experts with asset bases of knowledge and reusable components in the service of our customers. Each fields a wide range that best serve its objectives.
The objectives of each CoE are to:
- Support consistent and successful delivery of projects in its technology
- Demonstrate the technology's value and eWit's leading capability in that technology
- Build organizational capabilities in the technology through mentoring, training, and direct project support
- Reduce development costs by harvesting, developing, and maintaining the knowledge assets
- Work closely with vendors to ensure eWit's market leadership
CoE activities
Each CoE comprises a set of technically aligned resources, working with vertical industry go-to-market groups and with horizontal technology specialists. Each is:
- Involved with the RFI/RFP process to support eWit's vertical-industry groups in a particular technology context (at times, more than one CoE may be involved)
- Responsible for providing expertise and guidance for cutting-edge projects that may involve offerings from vendors
- Promulgating technology standards
- Providing mentoring and technology leadership to vertical industry project teams
- Working with eWit's alliances organization to manage partnerships with top vendors relevant to their technology areas
- Creating communities of interest and a knowledge-management portal to share best practices.
The CoEs will have a presence in each of eWit's delivery center locations along with an onsite contact. Each CoE has a full-time offshore leader who champions learnings about and use of key technologies and who works with other eWit leaders to set goals and execute plans for the CoE.
Charting the activities of the CoEs against technology maturity and visibility, three distinct roles appear: an R&D phase, when technologies are just emerging and proofs of concepts are crucial; a first-stage CoE role, where it is crucial to test concepts and accumulate technical skills with training programs and the right partnerships; and a second-stage CoE, creating and leveraging assets to apply technologies to real solutions for customers. |
