Friday, April 19, 2019

The Monthly Digital Insight: The Art and Science of Digital Framework Apr. 2019

The business framework provides guidelines, checklists, standards, processes, "do & don't" as well as tools and building blocks to define and develop business artifacts.

The digital frameworks add value as they are implementations of the patterns to avoid having to reinvent the wheel, it helps the organization embed a digital culture into the very fabric of the business, explore digital in a structural way and laser focus on the most important things to get business digital ready.



The Art and Science of Digital Framework


The Art and Science of Enterprise Framework The business framework provides guidelines, checklists, standards, processes, "do & don't" as well as tools and building blocks to define and develop business artifacts. An enterprise framework containing fully developed methodologies ensures that the framework, when used by multiple persons on the same or different teams, produces a set of object instances that are reliable, repeatable, and fully distinguishable.

Going Digital in a Structural Way The digital shift means change. It represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem. Digital Transformation can give businesses the ability to apply real-time insights across the organization in ways never possible before. The broader you can oversee and the deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and the pinnacle of digital transformation. Digital organizations and systems have the characteristics of hyperconnectivity, nonlinearity, adaptability, unrepeatability, and unpredictability. How to gain a comprehensive understanding of digital forces, develop digital management frameworks, or deduct digital formulas to enable systematic macro change, and go digital in a structural way?

Five Elements (AISDE) in Digital Problem-Solving Framework Running a business is fundamentally an iterative problem-solving continuum. Due to fast-paced change, the exponential growth of information and continuous digital disruptions, the problems facing business also turn to be over-complex and difficult to solve. You need to have deep insight, take a holistic approach to complex problem-solving and build a comprehensive framework for both defining the right problems and solving them effectively. Otherwise, the temporary fix will cause you to reconsider the problem statement soon after. Here, we introduce a comprehensive digital problem-solving framework with "AISDE" components.

How to Develop a Comprehensive Innovation Framework Innovation is not serendipity. Working in an innovation garden not only takes passion but also needs the process and hard work. A systematic innovation approach is to depict innovation as a system, rather than a traditional process. Innovation performance depends on the alignment of its various components (people, process, resources, actions, controls, measurement, etc.). Though there's no single structure that will work in every organization, the comprehensive innovation framework with all important enterprise components is the great tool to intensify innovation with focus and manage innovation in a structural way.

Leveraging the Management Framework to Run High-Performance IT With overwhelming growth of information, dynamic business environment, and fierce competitions, IT becomes the decisive success factor for the business’s long-term perspective. Information Technology is also a huge and expensive investment in most organizations. IT Engineering practices and management disciplines require systematic thinking, structural approaches, and problem-solving capabilities. The leader of IT needs to focus with his/her peers by putting together a solid IT Management Framework that matches the needs of the business, have a high-professional management team, and let his/her team execute for running high-performance IT organization, and running IT as the business.

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