The Monthly “100 Digital Pitfalls” Book Tuning: IT Management Pitfalls & Perils Mar. 2020

There are many signs about a dysfunctional IT system, you just need to have insightful eyes to identify them and the good practices to diagnose the root causes and fix them smoothly.

Digital makes a significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is a mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of the digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to make the digital paradigm shift effortlessly.

The purpose of “100 Digital Pitfalls: How to Overcome Pitfalls on the Path of Going Digital” is to throw some light on how to identify, understand, and overcome common pitfalls on the digital journey, dig underneath the surface, and take a holistic approach to integrate both hard and soft elements for improving the long-term organizational competency and reaching the high-level of business maturity. Slideshare Presentation

IT Management Pitfalls & Perils   

IT Management Perils and Pitfalls Information and technology nowadays are permeating every corner of the organization and recharging the digital business with the power to respond to changes quickly and innovate relentlessly. However, many IT organizations still get stuck in the old IT thinking box which cannot move fast enough in the digital era, becoming irrelevant due to outdated management disciplines, overly rigid processes, or enlarged skill gaps. There are many signs about a dysfunctional IT system, you just need to have insightful eyes to identify them and the good practices to diagnose the root causes and fix them smoothly.

Avoid Pitfalls to Run Digital IT The nimble digital technologies and abundance of information change how we think, live, and run always-on and always-connected digital businesses today. The world is becoming smaller every day and as a consequence, every successful business has to sooner or later step into the uncharted water and blurred business territories. It brings both significant opportunities and unprecedented risks, how to understand and overcome pitfalls on the way to running a high-performance digital IT organization?

Five Pitfalls to Fail IT Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation, but it is the path not being fully discovered and explored yet. Or put another way, as every organization is at the different stage of the business growth cycle, each of them has to match their own pace, fit their own circumstances, and develop their own set of next practices for accelerating digital transformation. There are many roadblocks and hidden barriers along the way. Old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the era of digitalization. Digital CIOs today need to have both business acumen and technological understanding to become the trustful business advisor and empathetic IT manager in order to lead effectively and digitize IT effortlessly.

Accelerating IT Digitalization by Avoiding these Pitfalls Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation, but it is the path not being fully discovered and explored yet. Or put another way, as every organization is at the different stage of the business growth cycle, each of them has to match their own pace, fit their own circumstances, and develop their own set of next practices for accelerating digital transformation. There are many roadblocks and hidden barriers along the way. Old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the era of digitalization. Digital CIOs today need to have both business acumen and technological understanding to become the trustful business advisor and empathetic IT manager in order to lead effectively and digitize IT effortlessly.

How to Avoid these “Mismanagement” Pitfalls The digital business dynamic is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, ambiguity, fierce competition, and continuous disruptions. Digital organizations keep evolving with the increasing speed of change, the exponential growth of information and the rapid integration of business across the globe. Traditional management approaches based on command and control style and overly rigid hierarchy have some critical defects for leading organizations up to the next level of business maturity. Practicing digital management is about taking a holistic view and applying an interdisciplinary management approach to planning and executing business strategy. How to avoid the following mismanagement pitfalls and make the digital paradigm shift smoothly?

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