Digital Transformation Series - 1

The Beginning

Hello ! I am finally bringing my experiences together on Digital Transformation for some of you just bored of the daily news and now ready for some collaboration in sharing experiences on this very happening needed topic. Its true that having gone through these years also led to my confidence and a bold move to become a serial entrepreneur and founder of two startups on Digital Transformation, first with The Digialps, and then Stralynn Consulting Services, Inc. I have met millions of people during the last three decades and seen the tsunami of technologies change the very way we operate but more so how we think, I intend to have my articles laid out with tactical experiences that may help you now or later, including if you are in a current CIO/ CDO / CIDO role or aspire to be in such roles. The image above is attributed to the tough peaks and valleys this topic may seem to carry, ranging from Fortune 500 MNCs to Private Equity backed portfolio companies. Question is how do you make it easier for the C-suite and their organizations ? Will address these type of questions as you keep reading my weekly series and add your own experiences to it.

Lets talk today about what makes Digital Transformation seem so complex. The beginnings are usually due to multiple factors - the blackbox nature of systems causes business function roles to usually consider it something that they do not have the background to understand or they just don't have the time to deal with it. IT functions are the right place to know systems. Looking at today's generation new startups and midsize companies this perception can be challenged quite a bit, and I will have more on that in future articles.

Clearly process complexity when supporting multiple functions is another area of complexity. There are manual handoffs and systems automated in the end to end process. If there is an organization change with roles redefined, there is again a discussion thats only after the fact on how it affects the process. Fortune 500 can have processes that can range even in 1000s, and many of them are so many level deep that unless a detailed multi-million dollar program is run to diagnose it, the knowledge these processes exist will never see daylight.

We have only covered two factors bringing in complexity to even think of starting digital transformations. Lets cover some more next week ! Until then let me hear your thoughts as you continue with a fantastic week ahead .. tbc