Perhaps the biggest surprise of all about digital transformation isn’t that large scale change is hard. It’s safe to say that’s now well established and widely known. It’s how to do it repeatably and Sustainably that appears to be the key.
We’ve also learned along the way that digital change is often more about the people involved and affected by it than it is about the technology.
Yet we’ve witnessed a growing number of challenges with technological change as well, with the rule of thumb being the larger, older, and more distant the organization originally was from the technology industry, the more significant the technical challenges have been.
Digital Transformation in 2019:The Business Trends
- The CEO drives digital transformation.
- Increasing education, skill building, and culture change for DT.
- Better integration of digital initiatives.
- New regulation of digital markets becomes a headwind to be actively managed.
- Addressing missed leadership communications opportunities.
- Making digital transformation scale better yet be more sustainable.
Digital Transformation in 2019: The Tech Trends
- Better strategic organization and posture of enterprise data.
- Prioritizing and investing in reducing technical debt.
- Updating and refining cloud strategy.
- Delivering on digital customer experience faster and better.
- Systematic experimentation and adoption of disruptive emerging tech.
- More organizations bet on analytics to the highest degree.
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Source : Zdnet