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STRATEGY, NOT TECHNOLOGY, DRIVES DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
from MIT Sloan Management Review
Becoming a Digitally Mature Enterprise
MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte’s1 2015 global study of digital business found that maturing digital businesses are focused on integrating digital technologies (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud), in the service of transforming how their businesses work. Less-mature digital businesses are focused on solving discrete business problems with individual digital technologies.
The ability to digitally reimagine the business is determined in large part by a clear digital strategy supported by leaders who foster a culture able to change and invent the new. While these insights are consistent with prior technology evolutions, what is unique to digital transformation is that risk taking is becoming a cultural norm as more digitally advanced companies seek new levels of competitive advantage.
The following are highlights of the findings:
1. Digital strategy drives digital maturity. Only 15% of respondents from companies at the early stages of what we call digital maturity (an organization where digital has transformed processes, talent engagement and business models) say that their organizations have a clear and coherent digital strategy. Among the digitally maturing, more than 80% do.
2. The power of a digital transformation strategy lies in its scope and objectives. Less digitally mature organizations tend to focus on individual technologies and have strategies that are decidedly operational in focus. Digital strategies in the most mature organizations are developed with an eye on transforming the business.
3. Maturing digital organizations build skills to realize the strategy. Digitally maturing organizations are four times more likely to provide employees with needed skills than are organizations at lower ends of the spectrum. Consistent with our overall findings, the ability to conceptualize how digital technologies can impact the business is a skill lacking in many companies at the early stages of digital maturity.
