Friday, October 27, 2017

The Monthly Insight of How to Reach High Level of Digital Maturity Oct. 2017

The journey of improving business maturity is more evolutionary than revolutionary. 

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. At the high maturity level, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension for driving the full-fledged digital transformation.

          How to Reach the High Level of “Digital Maturity”

  • Building Digital Competency to Improve Business Maturity? Organizational maturity is assessed based on the overall business effectiveness, efficiency, operational excellence. agility, innovation, intelligence, resilience, and people-centricity. Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation which represents the next stage of business maturity and will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its digital ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. But more specifically, what are further aspects in building digital competency and logical steps for improving business maturity


  • Three Digital Effects to Catalyze Business Maturity? Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interact with its ecosystem, with the customer at the center of its focus. Digital becomes the very fabric of the modern business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking digital organizations today. So how can businesses amplify positive digital effects and grow into the high-performing Digital Master?
  • Five Aspects of Digital Maturity Organizations are transforming from doing digital to being digital. There are systemic consequences and impacts of thinking and actions in terms of digital interconnections and interdependency. At the higher maturity level, companies need to embed digital into the very fabric of the business, explore digital in a structural way. It is critical to build a comprehensive transformation roadmap and do the routine checkup in the journey of digital transformation to ensure they are moving in the right direction with steadfast speed.

  • Five Stages from “Doing Digital” to “Being Digital”: Organizational digitalization is not just about using the latest technology gadgets or applying the fancy tools. At the high maturity level, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension for driving the full-fledged digital transformation. There are a couple of evolutional ecosystems stages businesses have to experience in order to ride above the learning curve and move up the business maturity from “Doing Digital,” to “Being Digital.”

  • Three Aspects to Measure Organizational Maturity? Organizations today are over-complex and hyper-competitive, management continues to keep the business running, but the lack of insight on how well their organization is doing for the long term. Is it functioning well or dysfunctional? Which management metrics shall you apply to measure organizational overall health and maturity? Who and what tools are being applied to measure if an organization is healthy or sick? Proactive or reactive? Intelligent or dumb? Customer-centric or operational driven?  

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