Monitoring Progress

Any change initiative within an organisation needs to have clear objectives and your progress in implementing your plans towards them should be continually reviewed. In digital transformation, as you progress along your Roadmap you should be assessing the extent to which your progress is meeting the expectations that you have. There are three elements that …

Managing Implementation

Successful implementation of digital transformation is difficult. Research indicates that 70 % of implementations fail and this series of courses is intended to improve your probability of success. A good starting point in the approach that you take to implementation of the Roadmap that you have developed is recognition that success is hard work and …

The Importance of Integration

The range of technology options that are available for digital transformation today is huge, and it is growing daily. These options can be hosted by the IT department, the department that is using them or remotely in the cloud. They can gather information from a wide range of sources and objects and they can provide …

An Agile Approach

There are two approaches which can be taken to the management of the transformation project once the milestones have been determined. The first is to create a detailed plan for the whole project, that has all of the tasks that are required for all of the milestones determined at the start of the project. This …

Roadmap Framework

The Roadmap provides a schedule of the activities that will achieve the digital transformation objectives. The first stage in its creation is the identification of milestones that indicate the completion of the main stages that the project will involve. For example, the completion of the modifications in the Mold Shop may be a milestone in …

Roadmap Elements

The Roadmap describes the project that will be undertaken to enable the organisation to achieve the objectives of the digital transformation. A Vision for the transformation was created before the work on the Roadmap commenced and a process for this is described in another lesson. The Vision should provide clear objectives that the Roadmap team …

The Design Process

The design process that you adopt for your Roadmap will be specific to your own organisation. It should be coordinated by a member of the senior management team who will be responsible for ensuring that the support and resources for implementing the Roadmap will be forthcoming. It should involve everyone who will have responsibility for …

Introduction – The Roadmap Inputs

The creation of your Digital Transformation Roadmap comes at the end of a careful process of consultation, data gathering, analysis and reflection. You have consulted with all relevant stakeholders, including customers and suppliers and people throughout your organisation. You have gathered data and analysed it to more objectively determine the purpose of your transformation efforts. …

Conclusion

Digital transformation is not just about information technology – it requires change throughout the organisation and this change will only be successful if it is effectively led. In this lesson you have considered how this should be done. First we considered the nature of the changes being made in organisations, by looking at the changes …

Leading Business Transformation

We have seen that digital transformation requires radical change in most organisations. This change has significant impact on employees and requires careful management and leadership. Most managers have not led this type of change before and their skills, while they may have good leadership skills, may or may not be appropriate for this new environment. …