Are you an executive management team looking for some way to measure your improvement as a Digital Business? Or are you a Manager of IT or HR, looking for something to align your assets better?
The digital transformation roadmap will walk you through which digital capabilities need improving and how to get there. It is a simple, elegant way to align your employees, IT, and business strategies as well as to measure how well your business is delivering.
Here are four strategies CIOs could incorporate to improve their digital transformation roadmap:
1. Implement IT infrastructure to support hybrid environments.
Adapting the IT and security infrastructure for the long haul will be essential as hybrid work prevails, so some quick fixes may have to be undone as part of the transition.
This will provide better reliability and security and virtually eliminate the need for a fixed physical office location, allowing engineers, technicians, and specialists to work from anywhere.
2. Update business continuity plans and disaster recovery plans
Now that we have lived through the pandemic, it is almost comical to look back on what our business continuity plan for 2019 looked like. If we had caught fire at work, we would have been forced to work from home. The standard operating procedure should take into account what might go wrong in that environment.
To mitigate the risk of a widespread business interruption, you may want to have your employees with business-critical functions use different endpoints (which means subsidizing the cost).
3. Keep innovation and operations in balance
Getting the entire team involved in the development, testing, and validation of new products will help innovation and development teams be more agile. In this way, their priorities are met from the start, and no resources or time are wasted. Performance testing, regression testing, and security scans must be integrated throughout, in real-time, to make development cycles shorter and more efficient.
The closer IT and business operations are integrated, the easier it is to balance innovation and operations with a minimum impact on either, even when resources or talent are limited.
4. Become more people-centric and empathetic
When looking at your digital transformation roadmap, most businesses tend to focus on operations and systems and negate the role that people and their employees have in facilitating the success of their total transformation. The focus on infrastructure often obscures the fact that people are also involved in this process. It is just as important to help people adapt to and accept a new system as it is to introduce the system itself. Oftentimes, IT professionals fail to consider helping people on their way, but this should change, especially in a remote environment where people may already feel disconnected.
Digital transformation has more to do with the groundwork of creating a foundation for success and change to happen than the new technology and infrastructure that’s going to get you there. A ripe foundation is the breeding ground of transformation. As you move along your digital transformation roadmap and navigate the changes and adoption you have to incur, have peace of mind that progress is not linear and you can only progress as far as you’re willing to upskill the current people around you. Invest in your people and be open to change.
As you navigate your company’s digital transformation roadmap efforts, these lessons should help you make decisions about the company’s future direction.
- Lesson 1: Learn from your competitors and be your own customer.
- Lesson 2: When determining your digital strategy, you should take into account how well you’re doing digitally and which areas need improvement.
- Lesson 3: Don’t worry about achieving perfection in every area. This takes too much time and energy and can even become counterproductive. Rather, focus on the areas that will have the most impact and neglect areas that you feel don’t need as much work.
- Lesson 4: Invest in developing AI-driven processes.
Here are some do’s and don’ts when it comes to adapting to these new changes.
Wondering what your digital transformation roadmap and the journey should look like? And, who will lead you on this journey? DigiRev works with organisations to help them find the best in-demand technological skills and experience to upscale their digital transformation efforts.
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