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
Deal with Pale, Stale, and Failing Pattern of Digital Transformation
Deal with the “Pale, Stale, and Failing” Patterns Properly and Lead Digital Transformation Smoothly Digital transformation isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business, but a quantum leap with radical change. The journey of going digital will not be flat. It represents a break from the past, with a high level of complexity and uncertainty. The path for digital transformation can be iterative, evolutionary, revolutionary, or disruptive. Ad hoc digital transformation is doomed to fail. How to deal with “pale, stale, and failing” patterns properly and lead digital transformation smoothly?
Three Effects Cloudy the Vision and Stifle the Speed of Digitalization Change is the new normal with increasing pace, digitalization is a radical change. The successful businesses are the ones that can manage change fluently and drive digitalization in a structural way. Now with the unprecedented business uncertainty, the volatile market situations, intense competitions, advanced technologies, and abundance of information, it is important to clarify the vision, anchor changes as new opportunities, avoid barriers and pitfalls on the way, and steer the business in the right direction. Here are three effects perhaps cloudy the vision and stifle the speed of digitalization.
Playing Innovation Oddball: Avoid Knowledge Traps Knowledge is the foundation of the imagination. We can use knowledge of the forces of physics to guide us in the exploration of the earth or space. Our imagination lets us dream of where we could go, knowledge helps us understand how and what forces we are dealing with in our journey. A great wealth of knowledge fuels imaginations. This, in turn, becomes things that can be useful. However, too much knowledge, especially if it’s outdated or too little knowledge will turn to be the trap of innovativeness.
Learning from Failures and Failure Forward No one likes failures, but often failure knocks our door before success. Failure in ancient Latin is "defectum," and defectum share the same root of the word "deficere" ("missing" in English) that comes from the ancient Greek αποτυχία means failure. εποτυχία means success. The meaning is understanding that the difference between failure and success is just in one letter... α and ε ... and just one letter can dramatically change the outcome. If failure is inevitable, either running an organization or undergoing a life journey, how do you fail fast and fail forward
Building a Dynamic Digital Organization by Overcoming the “Growth Pain” With “VUCA” digital new normal, a static organization is on its way out. Digital organizations today are dynamic, informative, nonlinear, adaptive, and innovative, etc. The Greiner curve models described that there are several crisis points on the growth cycle of the organization. When the wind of change blows, some build walls; some build windmills. The crisis point is when change becomes inevitable. Crises should not be avoided or feared but work hard to overcome. It’s part of “growth pain,” deal with it positively in order to build a dynamic digital organization and focus on continuous improvement.
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