1. Seek Management Support
Digital Transformation starts at the top. From the CEO down, the commitment to Digital Transformation must be complete, provocative, disruptive, ambitious, and often…uncomfortable.
2. Set Ambitious Goals
Set crystal-clear goals that aim to take you above and beyond your competition.
3. Allocate Funding
Digital Transformation is not going to be cheap, and things of value rarely are.
4. Pick the Low Hanging Fruit
Score some points early by knocking low-risk, high-reward projects out of the park.
5. Build a Launch Team
Building the right team is more than just adding new roles and responsibilities to your current team. Ensure that you put in place the right personnel to monitor progress on key targets, that priorities are being kept, and manage the day to day tasks in your digital transformation roadmap.
6. Introduce New Workflows
Promote new agile workflows, while being careful not to alienate the existing personnel who have grown the organization to what it is today.
7. Grow Your Culture
Culture is changing in today’s enterprise. Your personnel will need a digital mindset, the tools and setting to collaborate, and autonomy.
8. Momentum Picks Up
As your initial transformation activities take hold, momentum should be picking. New initiatives should be building on earlier successes.
9. Build Your Capabilities
Business capabilities are the sum of your people, processes, and technology. Invest in new systems, update processes, and train your people for the new digital world.
10. Adopt Agile
The one constant is change. Agile methodologies can help you navigate a new course, but adopting Agile itself is a huge change for many organizations.
