Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Take a Structural Approach for Digital Transformation Sep. 2017

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high-performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. At the heart of digital, it is people and how to build a customer-centric organization. But how to take a structural approach for digital transformation?

        Take a Structural Approach for Digital Transformation

  • Build a Comprehensive Digital Framework with Principles, Processes, and Practices to Accelerate Digital Transformation? Digitalization is not just about adopting the latest technologies or cool gadget only, it has to expand into every dimension of the organization with a structural approach. The digital framework provides guidelines, checklist, standard, processes, do & don't practices, as well as tools and building blocks to define or develop business competencies and manage a holistic digital transformation. The digital frameworks add value as they are implementations of the patterns to avoid having to reinvent the wheel, it helps the organization embed digital culture into the very fabric of the business, explore digital in a structural way and laser focus on the most important things to get business digital ready.

  • Three Aspects of Scale Digital: Organizations’ digitalization is surely a transformation journey, it has to permeate into business vision, strategy, culture, communication, and processes. etc. It represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem. During the journey, there are many accumulated steps from doing digital to going digital to being digital. Here are three aspects to scale digitization and make a leap of digital transformation.
  • Stretch Out to Reach the Stage of Digital Renaissance Organizations large or small are on the journey of digital transformation. Digital is not a single dimensional technology adoption, but a multi-dimensional business expansion and optimization. Transformation efforts need to be undertaken as the means of getting to a defined different capability to accomplish a set of defined business goals. Digital transformation represents a break with the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. To reach this stage of the digital renaissance,  organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension, strengthen organizational capacity and build business competency for driving the full-fledged digital transformation.   

  • Three Perspectives Why is Digital Transformation Worth its Weight: Digital means flow; digital organizations have to adapt to the continuous changes and business dynamic to get digital ready. However, for many organizations, digitalization is still the unsolved puzzle with some or many missing pieces. The organizational management short-sightedness and running the business in a transactional mode can only cause digital ineffectiveness for the long run. A digital transformation is an overarching approach that has to dig underneath of the surface of businesses and take a holistic approach to integrate both hard and soft business elements to improve the long-term organizational competency. Here are three perspectives why digital transformation worths its weight.

  • Accelerate Digital Transformation via both Hard and Soft Way? Organizations large or small are on their digital transformation journey, although there is no one size fits all solutions to ensure the change success, it is important to take a systematic approach, strike the right balance of “push” and “pull” from multiple directions, and accelerate digital transformation via both hard and soft way.

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