Monday, July 20, 2020

The Monthly “100 Digital Pitfalls” Book Tuning: Organizational Stall and Stagnation July 2020

Change is inevitable with the faster pace, organizations today simply cannot standstill. 

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




Organizational Stall and Stagnation


Three Root Causes of Stalled Change or Digitalization Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. It is important to understand that digitalization is multifaceted. It is not a single-dimensional technology adoption, but a multi-dimensional business expansion and optimization. When digitalization seems to get stalled and culture is stale, business management must ask the big "WHY" question and dig into the root cause. Because the organization’s ability to change and adaptability directly impact the organization’s long-term competency and business maturity.

Why Does Innovation & Digitalization Stall Change is inevitable with the faster pace, organizations today simply cannot standstill. Digitalization represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with the people at the center of its focus. Digitalization is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces, hard forces, and soft forces from multiple directions. However, sometimes the managers feel that digitalization gets stalled, goes nowhere, what’re the root causes? And how to rejuvenate the business culture, catalyze changes and accelerate digital transformation?

Five Pillars of Digital Stagnation Either for individuals or businesses today, change is inevitable, some of us get it quicker than others. But too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, disruption, or crisis. The digital transformation is all about the rapid changes with blurred functional, business or industry territories and expanded organizational horizons. Forward-looking organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension for driving the full-fledged digital transformation. However, many companies get lost or get stuck on a digital journey. What’re the root causes and pitfalls on the way? Here are five pillars of digital stagnation.

Is your Organization in the Progress, Plateau, or Stagnation of Digital Transformation?
 Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology both horizontally and vertically. However, businesses evolve changes at a different speed because they are at a different stage of the business life cycle, as well as they are at a different level of business maturity. Hence, in order to lead change effectively, business leaders should do the check-up continuously: Is your organization in the progress, plateau or stagnation of digital transformation? And how to create momentum and lead change more effortlessly?

Overcome Barriers to Break Through the IT Digitalization Plateau Information is pervasive, permeating everywhere in contemporary businesses, the emerging digital technologies make continuous digital disruptions, and the speed of change is increasing significantly nowadays. However, many organizations still get stuck in the old IT thinking which cannot move fast enough in the digital era. There are still many roadblocks and hidden barriers along the way of digitalization, how to overcome them, and breakthrough the IT digitalization plateau?

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