Digital Strategy
Alignment
Digital Transformation goes way beyond just technology. Digital Transformation is all about leveraging technology to achieve business goals and to generate superior value by transforming the business operating model (i.e., business processes, organization, governance, tools and, ecosystems).
Either, the goal is to diversify the business, to optimize customer experience or to maximize the operating margin, the Alignment component allows to identify or confirm the business imperatives and vision that will dictate the ad-hoc milestones and path to a successful Digital Transformation.
Blueprinting
An effective Digital Transformation requires an Architecture Design where the corporate strategy, the business processes, the information and, the multiple technology layers converge into Digital Business Transformation Blueprints.
By Blueprintring the Digital Business Transformation, companies get a clear picture of how the business processes, the organization, and the technology will leverage the business’ strategic imperatives; as well as, how new and legacy technologies will co-exist and interact to produce the expected business outcomes.
Capabilities
By identifying current and future Business and IT Capabilities, their maturity levels and, by defining action plans (list of initiatives) to take them to the expected end state, companies can respond to two fundamental questions:
- How does the Digital Operating Model should look like in order to effectively Organize and Execute the tasks, processes and goals of the Digital Business Transformation?
- What kind of Ecosystem is required to effectively deliver all the resulting services in the Digitally Transformed Business?
Valuation & Prioritization
After having identified all necessary initiatives to develop the new capabilities, it is imperative to assess their Cost-Benefit ratio individually, as well as their interdependencies. This exercise will lead to defining the sequence in which each and every initiative in the Digital Business Transformation program should be executed.
- The outcome of these activities provides the input to the financial and resource planning proceses that feed the benefit realization plan.
- Valuation measures the Cost-Benefit ratio from a quantitative perspective and, documents all qualitative impact of each and every initiative within the Digital Business Transformation program. It also validates the value levers each initiative activates.
- Priorization defines the Digital Business Transformation Roadmap, based on criteria that privilege the fastest –and largest- realization of the benefits identified.
