As I create these digests, I keep seeing business transformation basically being described as a move to the cloud and mobile. I like that this article from Gulf News Technology reminds us that moving to cloud is just replacing one technology with another. True business transformation has to include people and business process changes to reap the full benefits. A lightweight article but a good reminder:
Driving Business Transformation Through Cloud Services
Don Tennant at IT Business Edge discusses the need for reducing legacy investment and starting to spend money “stepping up” to modern technologies with João Baptista, president of Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe operations at CGI, Montreal, Canada.
Saving IT Budgets from the Legacy Quagmire
CGI’s research and whitepaper “Keeping Up versus Stepping Up” can be found here: Keeping Up versus Stepping Up
BuiltIn Austin offers ten bold predictions for what digital transformation will mean over the next five years.
Leading Digital Business Transformation in 2016
An article in this week’s Harvard Business Review about how to help people open up when talking to you really caught my eye. If part of your business transformation is to encourage honest, transparent communication, an important part of that is how to influence people to want to do that. Non-verbal cues can help the people you are talking with open up or shut down.
My offering this week addresses the tendency to jump in and just do it. While a lot of up-front planning may be counter-productive (no plan survives contact with reality), some up-front planning can save you a lot of grief. I address specifically Agile transformations, but the same mindset applies to any business transformation.