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Transformation is hard. If you have the wrong culture, the wrong mindset, it is almost impossible. Cultural alignment is a huge enabler of change — when done well, it greases the skids; when poorly executed, it can stop transformation dead in its track…
Digital transformation will demand changes to your strategy, technology, processes, and organizational structure — and culture is the glue that brings it all together. Without addressing the human element, your digital transformation will either strugg…
Successful digital transformations are underpinned by a strong digital culture, which is a huge enabler of change. But, for most organisations, cultural change is still the largest barrier faced for successful transformation and the most difficult to o…
Transformative digital investments tend to play out over the long term and have broad implications for business processes across the entire value chain. This is where more accurate ROI calculations become critical, as: Your organization’s digital inves…
Top Technologies By Maturity While the scope of business strategy is increasingly defined by technology, not all technologies are equally important. To help digital leaders think about where to place their future technology bets, we published “Th…
To compete in the age of the customer, your firm must become a digital business. As a Digital Business leader, it’s your job to shape how. You must enhance your digital customer experience while also driving agility and efficiency through digital opera…
Digitize Your Business Strategy Before It’s Too Late In 2018, every CEO wants to have a “digital strategy” – which means at least we’ve made some progress over the past five years! To solve what they perceive to be the immediate challenge, CEOs a…
You need a CRM vision to gather momentum around such a large – and potentially strategic initiative. The first CRM vendor that gave us the tools to do so was Oracle with their CX vision. Oracle’s point of view was that CRM enabled companies to support…
Discussions about the promise of 5G networks are getting more excited. 5G is set to open new doors for enterprises to deploy IoT-enabled use cases that require high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and differentiated service characteristics. Even so, 5G i…
Last year we published “The Right Way To Establish A Digital Platform Business” to examine how GE’s former CEO, Jeff Immelt, established GE Digital under the leadership of Bill Ruh. GE Digital and its Predix platform were supposed to …
Who should lead your firm’s digital transformation? CEO? CIO? CMO? Firms turn to a variety of executives to lead their digital charge, but form follows function, and functional leaders often default to a functional (read, siloed or dare I say, m…
Amazon recently launched a new and unique type of store, after beta testing it for the better part of a year. The store, dubbed Amazon Go, promises consumers no checkout lines: Everything you grab from the shelves is tracked and charged to your Amazon …