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ing. William Koot

is a partner at KPMG Advisory, Digital Strategy Group.

Articles and contributions

Those who know their past, understand their future

October 2023 - The first computers made their appearance in the 1950s. Socially, this produced a mix of enthusiasm and fear. Enthusiasm about...

Business transformation in a digital world

November 2021 - For almost 60 years, Bovemij has been providing financial and other business services to mobility companies in the Netherlands with...

Harmonization and simplification as a condition for digitalization

November 2021 - “One Company” transformations are increasingly seen as a condition for digitalization. The harmonization and simplification of the operating model that...

Accelerating agile change as enabler for digital transformation

October 2019 - The banking industry is in full digital transformation with big change agendas on customer experience, regulatory & compliance and operational...

Is data the new oil for insurers like VIVAT?

December 2018 - It has often been stated: data is the new oil ([ECON17]). In one perspective, this may be true: the potential...

How to build a strategy in a Digital World

June 2018 - Digital technology is everywhere. Literally. As a consequence, companies need fully embrace the digital transformation. To succeed, it is no...

The CIO journey to agility

June 2018 - Organizations are faced with an increasingly digital and turbulent environment. Most organizations are not ready to react with the speed...

Agile transformation of the (IT) Operating Model

March 2018 - To keep up with an increasingly digital world, many traditional organizations are adopting agile principles throughout their organization. While a...

Smart manufacturing

June 2017 - Mainstream adoption of digital technologies has made the orchestration of large-scale ecosystems both feasible as well as necessary. Digital platforms...

Welcome to the After-IT World

December 2015 - In the main, we are not very good at imagining future scenarios, being restrained by our lack of imagination and...

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

April 2015 - Digital disruption is crashing like a tsunami over almost every organization, regardless of the corresponding industry segment or geographical location,...

Embracing the Digital Era

April 2015 - Many business sectors are being reshaped at an astounding pace, fuelled predominantly by new digital innovations. In times of radical...

“One IT” Follows “One Company” (Not the Other Way Around)

April 2014 - Many managers of organizations having several business units doubt whether having different systems and processes is advisable. Isn’t this an...

Why CIO’s should make themselves obsolete

October 2013 - The role and position of the CIO have been under debate ever since IT arose. The importance of IT, (big)...

Focus on pursuing the benefits

February 2013 - Measuring whether strategic objectives and desired benefits from transformation programs are being realized is important for organizations. By actively directing...