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Practical Digital Transformation

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Getting started

It's tough, right?

How do you start a programme of digital transformation?

I wrote this series of articles for New Digital Age magazine to help businesses plan their digital transformation projects from a blank sheet of paper.  

1 – Starting with a blank sheet of paper

This article lays out how to start your digital transformation project with a blank sheet of paper:

  • Start with a vision
  • Creating a vision statement
  • Creating a positioning statement
  • Determining your accountabilities  

Read the full article on New Digital Age here.

 

2 – How to prioritise your digital transformation projects

This article lays out how to prioritise your digital transformation projects, how to choose which projects to start with.

  • Finding the projects that exist
  • Adding to the list more that should exist
  • Creating prioritisation criteria
  • Your prioritisation checklist

Read the full article on New Digital Age here.

 

3 – How to structure your digital transformation delivery team

This article lays out how to structure your digital delivery team and the key roles needed.

  • Technology vision and strategy
  • Bi-Modal delivery
  • Creating prioritisation criteria
  • The specific team roles you need

Read the full article on New Digital Age here.

 

4 – How to cost digital transformation

This article lays out how to start to cost your digital transformation projects and plans.

  • How to calculate permanent staff costs
  • Agency and interim team considerations
  • Cost savings and leverage
  • Specifying how may projects

Read the full article on New Digital Age here.  

 

So I hope this helps, these articles were written from actual experience of leading digital transformation programmes and implementing the recommendations here. Let me know if I can help you.