Target operating model (TOM) is a blueprint of a firm’s business vision that aligns operating capacities and strategic objectives and provides an overview of the core business capabilities, internal factors, and external drivers, strategic and operational levers, organizational and functional structure, technology, and information resources of a company.

In today’s digital and cognitive world, it has become a strategic imperative to redefine what’s next and then realize the target state with a sound target operating model. Advancements in technology and sourcing is transforming entire ecosystem encompassing Data Centers. Infrastructure , Applications, and Services (DIAS). The infograph is an attempt to summarize Transforming DIAS in a nutshell

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