Successful management of the digital business transformation
I am the manager of the digital business transformation, in charge for its preparation and implementation. I am interested in the following:
- Will I be able to handle it using my skills and knowledge?
- Will my coworkers be able to offer suitable support?
- Which digital competencies should I develop in connection to that goal?
ROI of digital projects
I am in charge of investments and therefore I wish to make the right decisions for investments in digital initiatives/projects, but I am not sure about the following:
- Are we capable of calculating the ROI of digital projects?
- What kind of knowledge do we need to successfully execute digital projects and reach the desired ROI?
- Does our organizational culture support and accelerate the realization of digital projects or does it hinder them which makes the ROI take longer?
Implementing a successful digital project
We want to execute a successful digital project, so we want to know the following:
- What are the competencies of the members of the anticipated team for executing this project?
- How to develop the missing competencies of all project participants?
- Which additional digital competencies should such members posses or develop (what do the trends, benchmarks and good practices say about it)?
Searching for a strategic technology partner
We are aware that we need a strategic technology partner for a successful business transformation, but we do not know:
Selecting a third party digital solution provider
We want to select a third party digital solution provider to complete a common digital project. We wonder:
Digital leadership
We, as leaders, do not exactly know what to do to improve the digital focus of our organizational culture so we can involve our coworkers for the following reasons:
- We do not yet have a good understanding of business performance in the digital economy.
- We do not know which dimensions of the modern organizational culture should be systematically strengthened.
- We don’t have enough knowledge about the key characteristics of the modern organizational culture which we can use to help us.
The culture for a successful digital business transformation
We face a digital business transformation. We are worried whether we will be successful in doing this since we are noticing the following:
- We don’t have enough available resources to do this, so we must ration them.
- There are doubts that we will be able to successfully execute it which lessens the engagement of our employees.
- We will leave the initiative to do it to our IT department.
- We do not know whether our organizational digital culture is developed enough.
Modern strategic planning/strategic planning in the digital economy
We want to know what makes modern strategic plaining different and which new developments must we follow to successfully execute our strategy in the digital economy. This is why we want to know the following:
- What else we should include in our current procedures of strategic planning?
- Which digital competencies do we need to be able to include it?
- Which new elements of the modern digital culture must we develop to support the execution of the strategy?
The digital strength of our organization
We want to know if it can be measured, how well we are prepared to digital business operations and which level of business transformation have we achieved. We do not know the following:
- Is there a model of assessing digital maturity and competencies along with a professional test – assessment that we can rely on?
- Can we compare ourselves with others based on the acquired data and what is our position in relation to other organizations (what does the benchmark or comparative analysis in our industry state)?
- What should we do to systematically improve our business performance in the digital economy?
Attractiveness of the employer for digital talents
We know we should employ the best digital talents to ensure a successful future business performance and we should ask ourselves:
- Does our culture reflect the culture and values of the best potential employment candidates?
- Is our company digitally attractive to the best young talents?
- The development of which digital competencies should we provide for them?
Organizational culture on mergers and acquisitions
We have performed a merger or we acquired a digitally advanced organization and we have the following questions in connection with this:
- Which common areas should we work on in the future to best align our operations and values?
- How can we find the biggest differences in culture between the companies?
- How can we systematically asses the differences and similarities of our cultures to be able to plan suitable activities for developing a (new) common organizational culture?
A successful leader in the digital business environment
I am aware that leadership is a matter of the business context in which the leader operates. This is why I want to know how the roles and competencies of the leader change in the digital economy. I wonder:
- Which key competencies should a leader have to be able to facilitate successful digital business operations and organizational culture that supports it?
- Which digital competencies that are important for leaders am I strongly proficient in and which ones are lacking?
- How to systematically develop them, today and in the future?
