The New Book “Digital Maturity” Introduction Chapter 1 The Characteristics of Digital Organizations

Going digital is the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces; you have to put them all in the right places to discover the true meaning and unleash its full potential. 

The digital world is dynamic, interconnected, and interdependent, with the exponential growth of information and fierce competition. Organizations large or small are on the journey of digitalization, adapting to changes in faster speed and expand digital in every dimension of the business. Organizations today need to constantly improve the business and see change as an opportunity while keeping a holistic overview of the business is the core message. Otherwise, companies will begin a decline from its previous good performance.  But more specifically, what are the characteristics of digital organizations and can you make an objective self-assessment whether your organization is a digital master?


Holism: Going digital is the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces; you have to put them all in the right places to discover the true meaning and unleash its full potential. Digitalization is the state of dynamism, continuum, and interaction. To effectively respond to new digital dynamics, companies must begin thinking about ways to broaden their ecosystems and revenue streams while becoming more responsive and innovative. Digitalization is to optimize the whole, not the separate silos. At the age of digitalization, with the accelerating speed of changes, the holistic mind is needed to make a continuous improvement. The digital convergence of devices and services are creating new business models and revenue source as most companies across industries are being forced to become the information management business. It’s about building a people-centric business with a holistic strategy. The holistic management focuses on the long-term and transformative business practices, in pursuit of possibilities rather than impossibilities, to drive change and accelerating digital transformation.

Hyperconnectivity: The digital organization is a living thing, it cannot be taken apart. As you cannot understand a cell or a living thing if you isolate it from its context. You need to understand a cohesive whole. Therefore, it’s important for digital leaders and managers to learn how to leverage Systems Thinking to understand the systemic wholeness, to see the interconnectedness of the parts and the whole. Digital blurs the geographical, functional, organizational and industrial borders, traditional hierarchical lines will phase out and a collective of business partners will emerge working collaboratively to set digital strategy and achieve organizational goals collaboratively. When you respect the connecting nature of the digital business, leverage Systems Thinking, fine-tune organizational structures, connect wider dots, you are on the right way to run a high-performance digital organization.

Adaptability: In the ever-changing digital dynamic, either individually or collectively, adaptability is to be understood as the ability of systems or people adapts themselves smoothly and fast to changed circumstances. In the digital age, the knowledge cycle is significantly shortened, digital workforce today needs to have abilities to absorb new knowledge, gain true understanding and capture insight, as well as participate in co-creating new knowledge. Self-adaptation is a phenomenon strictly linked to see learning and knowledge increasing if shared and consumed. Consider the digital organization as the self-organized but interlaced and hyper-connected ecosystem, and humans are vehicles of natural and cultural solutions. Self-adaptation is faster if made with the full involvement of people in organizational flow with the consciousness to change. The living digital organizations can self-discover, self-adapt, self-organize and self-renew, to adapt to changes promptly and make the digital leap smoothly.

Digital makes a profound impact from the specific function to the business as a whole and the entire digital ecosystem. The new paradigm that is emerging is a digital organization that is more responsive, holistic, driven, intelligent, vibrant, innovative, ambidextrous, and above all thrive in the sea of changes. Going digital is more like a journey than a destination. Predicting and preparing the next level of digitalization is an iterative learning and doing continuum.

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