Building a digital strategy is only half the battle: create a systematic roadmap of technology initiatives to execute the strategy and drive digital transformation.
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Creating an effective digital strategy is the first step – translating it into action is the next. However, many organizations lack a systematic process for doing so, which results in:
A digital strategy that sits on the shelf and is never put into practice.
A digital strategy that goes over time or budget.
A digital strategy that fails to take stock of application investments and ecosystems, and duplicates efforts with what’s occurring elsewhere in the business.
Having a systematic approach for digital strategy execution has many benefits:
It ensures that the digital strategy is used, not read.
It allows organizations to link their digital strategy to new and developing application capabilities, such as artificial intelligence.
It uses an application roadmap approach to drive business transformation via specific enterprise applications, such as CRM and marketing automation.
Module 1: Validate the Digital Strategy
The Purpose
Review and validate the formal enterprise digital strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
Confirmation of the goals, objectives, and direction of the organization’s digital strategy.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Review the initial digital strategy.
1.2
Determine gaps.
1.3
Refine digital strategy scope and vision.
1.4
Finalize digital strategy and validate with stakeholders.
Validated digital strategy
Module 2: Parse Critical Technology Drivers
The Purpose
Enumerate relevant technology drivers from the digital strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
List of technology drivers to pursue based on goals articulated in the digital strategy.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Identify affected process domains.
Affected process domains (based on APQC)
2.2
Brainstorm impacts of digital strategy on technology enablement.
2.3
Distill critical technology drivers.
Critical technology drivers for the digital strategy
2.4
Identify KPIs for each driver.
Module 3: Map Drivers to Enabling Applications
The Purpose
Relate your digital strategy drivers to specific, actionable application areas.
Key Benefits Achieved
Understand the interplay between the digital strategy and impacted application domains.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Build and review current application inventory for digital.
Current-state application inventory
3.2
Execute fit-gap analysis between drivers and current state inventory.
Fit-gap analysis
3.3
Pair technology drivers to specific enabling application categories.
Module 4: Understand Applications
The Purpose
Understand how different applications support the digital strategy.
Understand the art of the possible.
Key Benefits Achieved
Knowledge of how applications are evolving from a features and capabilities perspective, and how this pertains to digital strategy enablement.
Create a concrete, actionable roadmap of application and technology initiatives to move the digital strategy forward.
Key Benefits Achieved
Clear, concise articulation of application roadmap for supporting digital that can be communicated to the business.
Activities:
Outputs:
5.1
Build list of enabling projects and applications.
5.2
Create prioritization criteria.
5.3
Build the digital strategy application roadmap.
Application roadmap for the digital strategy
5.4
Socialize the roadmap.
5.5
Delineate responsibility for roadmap execution.
RACI chart for digital strategy roadmap execution
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