What Makes a Successful Digital Transformation Project?

Niall McKeown·30 November 2016·Delivery

...This is a digital transformation case study that uses a digital transformation framework to help in the diagnosis of a strategic issues.  Without addressing the critical issues within any situation, technology simply adds complexity and marketing fails due to lack of competitive advantage.  Successful digital transformation projects look to address the 'cultural hierarchy of needs' of the individual. Read More...

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Digital Transformation: A Necessity or an Expensive evil?

Ripu Daman Singh·24 November 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...A few years back, I was asked in a job interview to name an innovative company. I immediately responded: Nike.  My reason back then was that I had invested in the first ever Nike Fuelband, a fitness tracker that looked super chic on my wrist with its colored LED lights. Serena Williams was wearing it on the court. And so was LeBron. Read More...

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Digital Transformation: A marathon of Love and Devotion

Ripu Daman Singh·24 November 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Apparently Love died a few weeks ago on a Thursday evening right before the happy hour. A lot of my single and not-so-single friends suffered this blow when Tinder crashed on their iPhones while they were still scouting for their perfect soulmates. Read More...

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Why Culture change is essential for Digital Transformation

Sandeep Raut·21 November 2016·People & Change

...Gone are the days, when companies used to decide a strategy and then execute it for the next five years as planned. Today a company's life on Fortune 500 or S&P 500 is just 15 years.  Digital businesses like Uber and Airbnb did not exist before 2008 but now they are multi-billion dollar poster children for Digital Disruption. Read More...

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Digital Transformation Hub – Realizing the Shared Economy

David Sprott·16 November 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Last week I mentioned to one of my US based colleagues that I would be out of office for three days at the Irish National Digital Week (NDW16), taking the opportunity because the event was being held in Skibbereen, just a few kilometres down the road from my home office. He asked, "Surely an event of that type would be held in Dublin?"  And I replied, "Well there's a story here that needs to be told; one that will have profound implications for business in Ireland and probably internationally". Read More...

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Digital Transformation: Quo vadis, corporate innovation management? (Part 1/2)

Frank Mattes·10 November 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...True Digital Transformation, i.e. Digital Transformation for growth, provides not only a huge opportunity for *corporate innovation but also a large number of challenges. We are exploring how corporate innovation management should move ahead. This first part deals with new opportunities that corporate innovation management needs to seize. The next post will focus on new challenges and how corporate innovation management should engage in the transformation process. Read More...

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Digital Transformation: The growth catalyst

Frank Mattes·10 November 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...As you may have noticed here we have started a peer group process with leading firms from the Process Industries. These companies explore what comes after the obvious first steps in Digital Transformation which are frequently: Read More...

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Emerging themes: Digital Transformation in Process Industry’s Innovation, Marketing and Sales

Frank Mattes·10 November 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...As you probably have seen here, we are currently starting an in-depth Peer Group process on “Digital Transformation (DT) in the Process Industries – What does it really mean for Innovation, Marketing and Sales?”. Our focus industry sector is the Process Industry and we are reaching out to VPs from Innovation, Marketing and Sales from leading companies in there. Read More...

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Defining “Digital Transformation“ with actionability in mind

Frank Mattes·10 November 2016·Delivery

...As we have pointed out in one of our last posts, we have started a peer group process with Process Industries VPs from Innovation, Marketing and Sales: “Digital Transformation – What it really means at the VP level”. This is a topic of the moment. Firstly, major management consulting companies such as The Boston Consulting Group are moving their research focus from “Why Digital Transformation” to “Making it happen” (see e.g. HERE ). Read More...

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Legacy Modernization for Digital Transformation

David Sprott·7 November 2016·Delivery

...For years legacy modernization has been the Cinderella of IT. Everyone knows legacy systems are a massive drag on the business, but there has rarely been a compelling business case to justify the perceived cost and risk involved in modernization. But things are changing! Read More...

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The Why, What and How of Digital Transformation

Rob Llewellyn·26 October 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...No industry is immune to the transformational impact of digital technologies, but only people with sound strategies and a digital roadmap to harness the opportunities will be among tomorrow's leaders. Read More...

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Six Guiding Principles of Digital Business Transformation

Rob Llewellyn·25 October 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...We know from Stephen Covey that values govern people’s behaviour, but principles determine consequences.  In the way that Covey encouraged us to utilise key leadership principles, so THRIVE is intended to encourage leaders to draw from six digital business transformation principles to equip themselves for the digital economy challenge. Introducing… Read More...

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