The Hard Job of Driving Value from AI
Generative AI arrived quickly, with bold promises dominating headlines. But anyone who has lived through past technology shifts knows the real story: the hard job of driving value is not proving it can work – it is adopting it to transform how companies work. Just as with PCs, e-commerce, or mobile, impact will not be…
Building a Digital Business Platform with Microsoft Tech
Microsoft’s digital business platform vision integrates modular applications, flexible infrastructure, and AI technology. Key components include Dynamics 365 for composable architecture, Dataverse for unified data services, and Microsoft Fabric for analytics. Power Platform enables low-code development, supporting scalable and compliant solutions within a vendor-neutral ecosystem, including integration with SAP systems.
Digital Business Platform
Legacy architectures and technical debt slow digital transformation, increase costs, and hinder agility. A Digital Business Platform addresses these challenges by integrating composable business architectures, common data services, AI-driven analytics, and centralized DevOps. This platform-oriented approach accelerates innovation, simplifies IT management, and enables scalable, secure, and efficient digital operations for modern enterprises.
Six Concepts That Will Shape Your Digital Strategy
Digital transformation is not about technology – it’s about how the business creates and delivers value. These six essential concepts of the transformation framework – Vision, People, Models, Architecture, Data, and Execution – turn ambition into results and help leaders restart, refocus, or accelerate their digital strategy.
Transformation Strategy: An Execution Toolbox
Digital intensity and transformation management intensity influence revenue growth and profitability in different ways. This toolbox equips leaders to integrate superb transformational execution with their digital strategy, enabling them to achieve up to 26% greater profitability than their competitors.
Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI
Authored by experts at McKinsey, this guide is a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the transformative power of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
This is a belated review of a book very, very useful for enterprise intrapreneurs and start-up entrepreneurs. Business Model Generation provides a comprehensive and practical toolbox to design and evaluate business models: a reference framework (the widely adopted Business Model Canvas), a set of patterns (e.g., unbundling, long tail, multi-sided platforms), design technics (a lot…
Becoming Future Fit: Challenges and Opportunities for Consumer Product Companies
Faced with changing consumer preferences, accelerating technology change, and competition from nimble startups, today’s consumer products (CP) companies know they need to make major changes to their operations within the next half-decade to remain successful. But while many have started down the path of transformation, progress is uneven, with some companies stalled by a combination…
Why Investing in Technology Is No Longer a Choice
In a sharp infographic, based on a survey of 229 companies, a team of Bain & Company consultants make a convincing case of why investing in technology is no longer a choice. The numbers also reflect the challenge of, in their own words, “making the most out of [the] new models” as they found that…
Anatomy of a Digital Strategy
The strategy is the starting point of the digital transformation journey. Digital leaders have a sound strategy. Strategy is repeatedly cited in digital transformation papers, books, media coverage, and this blog. Strategy, strategy, and more strategy. So, how does a digital strategy look like? One important clarification before going further, this post is not a…
The New Elements of Digital Transformation
The team behind The Digital Advantage: How Digital Leaders Outperform their Peers in Every Industry and The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation reflected on their influential research after surveying 1300 executives in more than 750 global organization. Their earlier research on digital transformation identified two dimensions through which leading companies outperform their peers: digital capability…
Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt
In Fast Times, a team of McKinsey consultants share the recipe they apply to help their customers be first movers and win the digital race. “[Fast Times] is for senior executives who are frustrated by the slow pace and limited return on investment (ROI) of their digital transformations, and are unsure what’s holding them back”…
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Digital Transformation: A Framework 