In times of significant disruption, organizations are faced with three choices: retrench within legacy solutions, pause and do nothing while waiting for more data or different circumstances, or press ahead, potentially even accelerating to realize the desired outcome. In such an environment, it is critical to ensure you’re delivering the greatest possible impact to the business.

We distilled conversations with CIOs, CTOs, and their technical staff into several frameworks to help devise the strategy that empowers the business and IT. We called one such framework “up or out.”