First 100 Days of Digital Transformation

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During digital transformation in an organization, the first 100 days of digital transformation are critical for setting the pace, attitude, and success with which your employees will adopt the new digital initiatives. You have to learn fast, immerse yourself in the business and go out to speak to your customers, suppliers, and partners.

You may be familiar with the concept of the first 100 days are critical for the success of an individual or any initiative and if you are starting digital transformation in your organization. A challenge where you need to tune your plan to meet the new realities driven by the growing digital component of your organization.

When I did a search on what must be done during the first 100 days and I am sure you are already aware of senior leaders in every discipline, a lot is written about “the first 100 days” of their tenure or of a project.

Start the first 100 days before your first day…

What I have found, Forrester interviewed more than 40 senior digital business leaders to find out. You can have a report from Forrester Digital Transformation: Your First 100 Days

  1. Start With Buy-In And Commitment From C-Level Leaders
  2. Identify Pathfinder Projects To Build Momentum With Small Wins
  3. Communicate Early And Often With Everyone — Not Just Digital Leaders
  4. Shift Your Firm’s Relationship With Digital
  5. Hire People Who Can Help You Embed Agility Into Your Organization
  6. Challenge The Status Quo To Drive Collaboration With Technology Teams

IDC also has published The First 100 Days of an IT Digital Transformation Project. In the first 100 days, almost all of the CIO’s activities revolve around the integration discipline. IDC provides CIOs a 100-day framework for an enterprise digital transformation plan. Findings of this study include:

  • Preparation:
    • Assess readiness.
    • Create a sense of urgency.
    • Engage an executive council team.
    • Create a strategic vision for DX.
    • Develop strategic initiatives.
    • Design organization.
  • Implementation:
    • Communicate broadly.
    • Remove barriers.
    • Create short-term wins and celebrate.
    • Institutionalize L3D in culture.

I believe the key action item is to clarify and strengthen your mandate, understand what is expected from digital transformation and how you will measure, for example, with regard to new business capabilities, cost targets, automation levels, and projects to fix. You may need to go back and listen to session no 52 – How you will know digital transformation is achieved

Now if I re-link to the IDC & Forrester’s first 100 days for digital transformation. After going through both the documents, I can co-relate to our earlier session. How do you start a digital transformation?

You’ll Learn:

Digital Transformation: Your First 100 Days

  1. Why a 100-day plan?  
  2. Areas to consider for the digital transformation plan
  3. Summary from the Forrester & IDC documents on digital transformation.

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