When businesses spend their days hoping nothing too terrible will happen, and when they loose their will to excel and compete and delight, then they're the walking dead.
Speed is a competitive requirement.
Nobody's going to ask you if you "want a seat at the table' - you'll either have proved you're capable and be engaged in the discussion already, or you'll be reassigned to the infrastructure maintenance team.
...Businesses without aggressive technology capabilities won't be able to compete in the current decade. No matter how slick their marketing or how big their market share or how high their CEO's profiles, those IT-stunted companies will be pulverized this year by a lethal combination of faster/smarter/better competitors and disengaged customers.
Does your company move as fast as its customers and prospects? And if not, how can you expect to compete? ... Speed of operations, speed of design, speed of execution, and speed to customer value are among their top priorities...
Harness the power of analytics to understand what's coming, instead of merely parsing what has happened.