Sunday, July 12, 2020

The “Ad hoc” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2020

 The opposite of strategy = ad hoc, reactionary, unplanned. 

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.”


It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of ”Ad Hoc” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Traditional management is based on overly rigid business processes and organizational hierarchy which causes bureaucratic management redundancy and runs in the silo. Silos introduce lots of delays, ad hoc, waste, queues, and bottlenecks.

2 The smart process needs to have dynamic aspects to it. It is rigorous; it can handle ad-hoc and exceptional matters smoothly and it ‘knows’ enough to be able to handle failures effectively.

3 Ad hoc digitalization is doomed to fail, the journey of going digital will not be flat. It represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity.

4 The opposite of strategy = ad hoc, reactionary, unplanned. Each new project reinvents the wheel. Lessons are unlearned. Processes change on a whim: "let's shake things up."

5 Being Agile definitely isn't easy or ad-hoc. It requires focus, patience, and commitment across the organization.

6 By its very nature, business processes have a predictable outcome, so processes can easily be identified with goals. However, case management is more ad hoc and depends on the expertise of the user.

7 From an IT perspective, one potential win from a big-data analytics project is a reduction in the need to do ad-hoc analysis and special tools to deliver information. A more systematic investment in the analytics offsets larger costs for continual ad-hoc work (even if the costs are merely opportunity costs).

8 It's important to establish a cross-functional change team to involve the multifunctional change management, space and time are made to scope, plan, and execute, not through ad-hoc activities, but through a stepwise approach.


1 comments:

Good words, a lot of interesting things can be learned from this book. But each digital agency, in own way, develops a strategy for the customers, and that’s the whole point. Fresh decisions often give an excellent promotion result.

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