Monday, March 4, 2019

The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Going Digital in a Structural Way Mar. 2019

The digital era upon us is all about the increasing pace of changes, technology-driven disruptions, and "always-on" businesses. 

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. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital strategy; they are courageous to be in the vanguard of digital transformation with a quantum lead. Digital leaders must realize that you cannot wait until there is an immediate pressing task, continuous adaptability is necessary in an ever-changing world, in order to run a future-driven digital organization.

    

Going Digital in a Structural Way  

 Taking a Systematic Approach to Lead Change and Drive Digital Transformation With overwhelming growth of information and continuous disruptions, looking forward is not always so easy, often it’s cloudy. Driving progressive change is even more difficult. The most complex topic during transformation is how to deal with uncertainty especially when you change many things such as people, processes, culture, systems, and organization as the whole at the same time. It is a complicated moment for all people in the organization at all levels and at the same time. How to take a systematic approach to lead changes and drive digital transformation smoothly?
Driving Change with a Full Cycle of “Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Transforming”? The digital era upon us is all about the increasing pace of changes, technology-driven disruptions, and "always-on" businesses with blurred functional, business, or industry territories. Going digital is about breaking down silos, applying the holistic digital management discipline to enter the next business growth cycle and expand organizational horizons to reach a higher level of business maturity. Organizational change management is not just about a few spontaneous businesses initiatives for reacting to business dynamic. It needs to drive changes systematically with a full cycle of “forming, storming, norming, performing, and transforming.”

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?

Lift the business up to the Hyper-cycle of Digital Transformation Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice. "Change" can be a somewhat mechanical implementation of new or different ways of doing something while the digital transformation is more likely to be a sweeping approach to altering a system or parts of it. Running a digital business is complex because all things do interact, particularly in the case of nonlinear interactions and interdependent relationships. How to overcome barriers and lift the business up to the hyper-cycle of business transformation?

Going Digital by Taking the “CEADA” Scenario? The digital paradigm has many dimensions. Going digital is no brainer. However, it is the thorny journey with many curves, bumps, and pitfalls on the way. It represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem. During the journey from doing digital to going digital to being digital, there are many accumulated steps and it’s important to take a rational approach.

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