How to Integrate Operations During a Digital Transformation
One of the primary reasons why so many organizations go through digital transformations is because they want to start to act like one company, they want to integrate and standardize operations but what exactly does that mean to become one company as part of your digital transformation?Â
Most of the clients that we work with throughout the world are mid to larger organizations that are growing through acquisition or they’re growing organically and over the years they’ve developed multiple operating models and multiple ways of operating as a business. In some cases they’ve acquired other businesses that have continued to operate independently or differently than the parent company or they end up with a bunch of different companies that all have different ways of operating.
Top 5 Digital Transformation Strategies During Economic Recession and Uncertainty
In times of economic turmoil or recession it’s more important than ever to have a solid recession-proof digital strategy. One of the things we often help our clients with is defining digital strategies. Digital strategies are very important regardless of when or where you might go through a digital transformation but in times of economic uncertainty and recession, whether you’re in economic uncertainty at the moment or whether you’re anticipating potential economic uncertainty, having a solid, right size digital strategy is more important than ever. So what we want to do today is talk about the various digital strategies that are most effective if you want to recession proof your business.
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