Digitalization Transformation Readiness Areas

Before you will start with digitalization transformation there is necessary to ensure proper readiness. Preparation is covering 7 different areas to ensure necessary inputs to start digital transformation. Specifically those areas are:

  • Company alignment – to achieve alignment of individual team members using supporting power map and setup individual communication approach
  • Business and culture change preparation – setup communication strategy based on identified target groups
  • Start small, think big – define phases and individual targets. Define “minimum viable product” for initial phase
  • Map technologies – identify available IT services usable for end to end digital processes
  • Identify team – define team with knowledge but also with leading capability and senior members who have team respect to achieve positive feeling of transformation
  • Get a feedback – evaluate communication results and adapt your individual targets
  • Scale and transform – focus on success of initial phase to be able to present the success but do not forget to proceed also with the following phases

Digitalization transformation risks

Digitalization transformation readiness is very often underestimated what cause big failures at the end. We recommend to evaluate all key risks which we see from our experience. Our list have 60+ predefined risks to mitigate.

  • Key users allocation – set allocation map and also ensure priority for key users with top management
  • Availability of end to end knowledge – proper investigation to identify people with process and system knowledge
  • Poor data quality – identify necessary data for digital processes and also check data quality, set cleaning principles
  • Potential performance issues – based on identified systems define how big risk is in performance area and setup the way of solution for identified potential performance issue
  • Not sufficiently mapped business needs
  • Legacy systems are not ready – identify systems during preparation, ensure specialists who are capable to adapt the systems and define necessary effort for change
  • other 77 risks

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