Charles Araujo

Founder

Charles Araujo is a technology analyst and internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and Leadership in the Digital Era who advises technology companies and enterprise leaders on how to navigate the transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era. Having spent over thirty years in the technology industry, he has been researching Digital Transformation long before it became the uber-buzzword of today, and is now focused on helping Digital Era Leaders prepare themselves and their organizations as the macro trends of the primacy of the customer and the primacy of the algorithm collide, ushering us into what he calls The New Human Age.

Former Principal Analyst with Intellyx, founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation, author of three books, and most recently the co-founder (with his wife) of The MAPS Institute, he is a sought-after keynote speaker and has been quoted or published in CIO, Time, InformationWeek, CIO Insight, NetworkWorld, Computerworld, USA Today, and Forbes.

Charlie has published the following articles on our site:

Three Digital Transformation Truths and One Great Myth

Three Digital Transformation Truths and One Great Myth

It’s conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the road covering a bunch of ... Read More
The Problem Lurking Inside of Your Hybrid IT Strategy

The Problem Lurking Inside of Your Hybrid IT Strategy

It is tempting to dismiss something that you see as trendy. While it implies progressiveness and forward-thinking and imparts a ... Read More
Silos are Dead! Long Live the Silos!

Silos are Dead! Long Live the Silos!

Nothing unites any group of people like a common enemy. And since the move toward digital transformation began — and ... Read More
How a Metadata-Driven Architecture Creates Organizational Agility

How a Metadata-Driven Architecture Creates Organizational Agility

There is an application gold rush taking place within enterprise organizations. Business leaders in every industry recognize that automation is ... Read More
Transformation Practice: The Key to Making Change a Core Competency

Transformation Practice: The Key to Making Change a Core Competency

There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital transformation. First, as we’ve written about extensively at Intellyx, ... Read More
The (Not So) Surprising Secret to Finding Shared Services Success

The (Not So) Surprising Secret to Finding Shared Services Success

In an age of digital disruption, enterprise organizations are in a race to find the operational efficiencies that will enable ... Read More
Turning Organizational Complexity into a Competitive Advantage

Turning Organizational Complexity into a Competitive Advantage

It is a time of disruption. New organizations using new technologies are arising daily to threaten long-standing industries. But old ... Read More
The Digital Experience Platform and Its Role in Digital Transformation

The Digital Experience Platform and Its Role in Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has reached the tipping point. Everyone now understands that they must transform. But amid all the fervor and ... Read More
Reimagining the Data Pipeline Paradigm as a Continuous Data Insights Platform

Reimagining the Data Pipeline Paradigm as a Continuous Data Insights Platform

Since the dawn of the modern computer, data has been a core architectural component. Every system needed an interface to ... Read More