In these challenges times, digital transformation is no longer an option – it’s a top priority. Whether you’ve been taking it slow, lagging behind, or trying to catch up or keep up, here are four guidelines to facilitate effective and efficient digital upgrades:
- Understand that digital transformation isn’t synonymous with innovation. Instead, it’s about achieving better business outcomes. By first identifying your business goals, you are better positioned to select the technology solutions that will help you meet them.
- Enlist the enthusiasts! There will always be some resistance to change, however positive it may be. One way to help overcome this is to engage thought leaders who are enthusiastic about the digital transformation and can help staff envision how it will help achieve desired goals and outcomes, as well as improve their work lives.
- Start your transformation with a keystone change. It will be easier for people to buy-in to digital transformation when they see a success it enables.
- Understand that technology is a means to end and not the end itself. The goal of your digital transformation should be a full-scale reinvention that changes how you create, deliver, and achieve value and results.
