Plan and Execute a Digital Transformation
Take a step closer to your end customers by creating a customer-centric digital strategy.
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Without an effective digital strategy:
- Digital investment will continue to be made without a clear direction, and will continue to under-deliver on expectations.
- The organization will continue to experience pain as a result of disruption and have difficulty competing with digitally-enabled competitors.
- Digital innovation will continue occurring in silos, resulting in time and budget spent on duplicating work already done.
With an effective digital strategy:
- The vision for what the organization is trying to accomplish with digital is clear, and is known by all relevant stakeholders in the organization.
- IT and the business work together to leverage leading-edge technology and business model innovation instead of being disrupted by them.
- Digital becomes a part of organizational culture and employees are primed to be innovative.
Module 1: Scope the Digital Transformation
The Purpose
Identify the need for and use of digital strategy and determine a realistic scope for the digital strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
The digital strategy project is planned and scoped around a subset of the five digital value pools.
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| 1.1 | Introduction to digital strategy. |
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| 1.2 | Establish motivation for digital. |
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| 1.3 | Discuss in-flight digital investments. |
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| 1.4 | Define the scope of digital. |
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| 1.5 | Identify stakeholders. |
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| 1.6 | Perform discovery interviews. |
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| 1.7 | Select two value pools to focus day 2, 3, and 4 activities. |
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Module 2: Design the Digital Future State Vision
The Purpose
Create guiding principles to help define future digital initiatives. Generate the target state with the help of strategic goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
Establish the basis for planning out the initiatives needed to achieve the target state from the current state.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Identify digital imperatives. |
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| 2.2 | Define key digital outcomes. |
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| 2.3 | Create a digital investment thesis. |
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| 2.4 | Define digital guiding principles. |
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Module 3: Define the Digital Roadmap
The Purpose
Understand the gap between the current and target state. Create transition options and assessment against qualitative and quantitative metrics to generate a list of initiatives the organization will pursue to reach the target state. Build a roadmap to plan out when each transition initiative will be implemented.
Key Benefits Achieved
Finalize the initiatives the organization will use to achieve the target digital state. Create a roadmap to plan out the timing of each initiative and generate an easy-to-present document for digital strategy approval.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify initiatives to achieve digital outcomes. |
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| 3.2 | Align in-flight initiatives to digital initiatives. |
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| 3.3 | Prioritize digital initiatives. |
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| 3.4 | Document architecturally significant requirements for high-priority initiatives. |
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Module 4: Sustain Digital Transformation
The Purpose
Plan your approach to socializing the digital strategy to help facilitate the cultural changes necessary for digital transformation.
Key Benefits Achieved
Plant the seed of digital and innovation to start making digital a part of the organization’s DNA.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Review and refine Digital Strategy-on-a-Page. |
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| 4.2 | Assess company culture. |
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| 4.3 | Define high-level cultural changes needed for successful transformation. |
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| 4.4 | Define the role of the digital transformation team. |
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| 4.5 | Establish digital transformation team membership and desired outcomes. |
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