Most Important Digital Transformation Deliverables and Tools
When planning for a digital transformation often times we’re focused on what the overall digital strategy is, what the plan is, how we’re going to execute and how we’re going to resource it. One thing we often don’t think about is what are those key deliverables, the key artifacts, the key outputs and the tools we need to manage the implementation and track the success of the implementation? What we want to do today is talk about the 10 most important deliverables and artifacts that are critical both as outputs and inputs into the digital transformation.
Digitization vs Digitalization vs Digital Transformation [Three Stages of IT Systems Strategy]
There are three primary types of digital initiatives that you should be thinking about as you embark on any sort of transformation involving technology and that’s what i want to talk about in this article.
How Do Organizations Get On Board with Digital Transformation? [Employee Buy-In and Alignment]
Getting internal buy-in is one of the most important success factors for a digital transformation but one of the common questions we get from clients is how do we get internal buy-in into our digital transformation? That’s exactly what I want to talk about here today.
Most Common Digital Transformation and ERP Implementation Myths and Mistakes
When working with digital transformation project teams throughout the world, we hear some pretty crazy things. What are some of those crazy things that we hear every day from project teams? When we work with clients, we hear a lot of interesting opinions and biases about how Digital Transformations should look but there’s a handful […]
The First (and Most Important) Step to Digital Transformation Success
When people think about digital transformation success versus failure, they often think about things like project management and governance and making sure we address change management, make sure we get our processes right, make sure we have our requirements well defined, a lot of things like that that are very important to digital transformation success.
The problem is, is that there’s an underlying reason why so many projects fail and most projects fail in the very early weeks and months of a transformation. It’s the very first step that you should be taking in a digital transformation initiative but most project teams overlook this first step
What Is Digital Transformation vs. Business Transformation?
Digital Transformation and Business Transformation are two of the hottest buzzwords in the industry today but how exactly are these two terms different and how does it apply to you? That’s what I want to talk about in this article today.
Top ERP Software Terms and Definitions You Need To Know
As part of helping our clients with digital transformations, oftentimes we’re helping them with ERP software implementations. Over the years, I’ve learned that there’s a lot of different terms, buzzwords and definitions that are really important to understand in order to be successful. So today we want to talk about 10 key terms and definitions that are really important for you to understand when embarking on an Erp software implementation or if you’re just trying to learn more about ERP software in general.Â
How to Measure Software Implementation Go-Live Readiness
When organizations embark on their digital transformations, they inevitably come up on a window or that period within an implementation where they have to start thinking about go-live. Oftentimes, organizations will conduct a go/no-go assessment, a kind of a yellow/red/green sort of assessment of where things are and where they think the status and the risks are. That’s typically a very qualitative exercise, it’s usually based on gut feel, there’s not a lot of measures or metrics behind that but what organizations should be doing instead, is looking at tangible measures that quantify how ready the organization is.
Why Do SAP S/4HANA Implementations Fail? What Are the Root Causes of SAP Failure?
One of the most commonly implemented ERP systems in the market and amongst our client base here at Third Stage is SAP S/4HANA, in fact as SAP sunsets their legacy customers off of ECC and migrates more and more of them to S/4HANA, we’re finding that more and more organizations throughout the world are implementing S/4HANA.
Top 5 Change Management Strategies Most Digital Transformation Teams Overlook
When deploying a change management strategy for digital transformation, most organizations overlook the most important change strategies that are most likely to make a project successful
What is a Chief Information Officer? What Is the Role of a CIO?
The key stakeholder and the key position within most businesses that we most commonly work with is the CIO or the Chief Information Officer. Oftentimes, the CIO role might be called the Vice President of IT, it might be called the Director of IT or an IT Manager but in general the CIO is that top dog or that leading management role within the IT function. The CIO role is something that’s in high demand nowadays with the emergence of new technologies and data and business intelligence and artificial intelligence and all this different technology that’s emerging and really helping change the way organizations run.
Why Do Digital Transformations and ERP Implementations Cost Too Much Time and Money?
It’s no secret that a majority of digital transformations fail to deliver on time, on budget and deliver the business value that’s expected. A bigger reason for this is because organizations have largely misaligned expectations on what it takes to be successful but why is this? How do we get implementation expectations so wrong? That’s […]