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Assess and Raise Your Digital Maturity

Prepare IT for digital transformation.

  • Organizations want to take stock of their digital maturity and compare it with that of their industry peers.
  • Organizations want to identify the reasons behind poor outcomes on recent digital initiatives.
  • Organizations want to identify initiatives to achieve their desired digital maturity.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

An organization’s digital maturity must be assessed across all key dimensions:

  • Strategy: Is the organization aligned around a vision?
  • Culture: Is the organization fostering the mindsets and behaviors critical to capturing digital opportunities?
  • Customer Journeys: Is the organization able to provide the desired customer experience over end-to-end journeys?
  • Capabilities: Does the organization have the systems, tools, digital skills, and technology to achieve its digital goals?

Impact and Result

Organizations that implement this project will draw benefits in four aspects:

  • A specific and agreed-upon measure of their digital maturity.
  • Comparison against other organizations within and outside of their industry.
  • Initiatives identified to move to the target state of digital maturity.
  • Awareness of their strengths and weaknesses.

Assess and Raise Your Digital Maturity Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should assess your organization’s digital maturity – a stepping stone toward digital transformation.


Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Stratascale

Guided Implementation

10/10

$29,139

20

Appreciated the clear explanation of the methodology, along with the recognition that a "one-size-fits-all" approach doesn't work for this assessme... Read More

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas

Guided Implementation

10/10

$2,355

2

Adib is great and knows his digital strategy stuff!

CRH: Americas Materials

Guided Implementation

9/10

$29,923

5

University of Ottawa

Guided Implementation

10/10

$100K

18

Central University of Technology

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Central University of Technology

Guided Implementation

10/10

$29,139

115

there was no worst experience. Receiving expert advise and guidance.

OGx Consulting

Guided Implementation

10/10

$127K

20

Westoba Credit Union Limited

Guided Implementation

9/10

$25,000

20

Lambton Kent District School Board

Guided Implementation

7/10

N/A

N/A


Workshop: Assess and Raise Your Digital Maturity

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Understand Organizational Imperatives

The Purpose

  • Understand the organizational pain points and desired outcomes.
  • Articulate the business objectives for the organization.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • An understanding of organizational pain points and desired outcomes
  • Business objectives that inform the prioritization of initiatives in the later stages of this project

Activities

Outputs

1.1

Identify and interview key stakeholders.

  • Stakeholders interview summaries

Module 2: Assess the Organization’s Digital Maturity

The Purpose

  • Assess the organization’s digital maturity across four dimensions: Strategy, Culture, Customer Journeys, and Capabilities.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • A thorough understanding of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses for digital transformation
  • Comparison against other organizations within and outside of the industry

Activities

Outputs

2.1

Review dimensions and factors in the Info-Tech’s Digital Maturity Model.

2.2

Assess the organization’s maturity level for each dimension and factor.

  • Summary and detailed view of the organization’s digital maturity

Module 3: Set Target State of Digital Maturity

The Purpose

  • Set the digital maturity target state across four dimensions.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Articulation of the digital principles to guide organizational behavior for digital transformation
  • An understanding of the organization’s desired digital maturity

Activities

Outputs

3.1

Articulate digital principles.

  • Set of digital principles with rationale and implications
3.2

Set the digital maturity target state.

  • View of the organization’s digital maturity target state

Module 4: Identify Initiatives and Create a Roadmap

The Purpose

  • Create a roadmap of initiatives for the organization.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Identification of initiatives and prioritization based on value and implementation effort
  • Creation of a roadmap across three waves of work

Activities

Outputs

4.1

Identify improvement opportunities.

  • List of improvement opportunities
4.2

Identify initiatives.

  • List of initiatives
4.3

Prioritize initiatives based on value and effort.

  • Prioritized list of initiatives
4.4

Create a roadmap.

  • A roadmap across three waves of work
4.5

Create an initiative-on-a-page for early initiatives on the roadmap.

  • Initiative-on-a-page for early initiatives on the roadmap
4.6

Create a digital strategy scorecard.

  • Digital strategy scorecard
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Guided Implementation 1: Assess your organization’s digital maturity
  • Call 1: Get the lay of the land with an introduction to the model.
  • Call 2: Walk through factors within the Strategy, Culture, and Organization dimensions.
  • Call 3: Walk through the Capabilities dimension.
  • Call 4: Identify the respondents and execute the online digital maturity assessment.
  • Call 5: Discuss the results of the digital maturity assessment.

Guided Implementation 2: Identify enabler initiatives to achieve target state digital maturity
  • Call 1: Discuss the target state for your organization’s digital maturity.
  • Call 2: Identify enabler initiatives to achieve the target state.
  • Call 3: Prioritize enabler initiatives on a roadmap.
  • Call 4: Create an initiative-on-a-page for early initiatives on the roadmap and a digital strategy scorecard.

Authors

Arif Mustafa

Vivek Mehta

Contributors

  • Asad Joheb, Senior Manager, Payments Strategy and Business Architecture, TD Bank
  • Gopi Bheemavarapu, IT Strategy Advisor, Occidental Petroleum Company
  • Raghuraj Pandya, Senior Investment Analyst, Mott MacDonald
  • Simon Lee, Engagement Manager, Digital Innovation, LCBO
  • Syed Hussain, Chief Information Officer, Oregon State Lottery
  • 6 anonymous contributors
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