The Burgeoning Digital Transformation And The Challenges Involved

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• The Burgeoning Digital Transformation And The
  Challenges Involved
• The golden age of digital business is revolving
  around the physical-digital-physical loop. To be
  in the race of Digital Transformation, many
  companies misinterpret between "Doing digital"
  and "Being digital". Companies are investing much
  in this transformation and are enjoying the
  increased market share and a rise in customer
  engagement. For organisations, it's no more an
  option to embark on the journey to digital
  transformation but is a prime requirement.
• A survey by Riverbed Digital Performance 2018
  says
• "Out of 1000 business decision-makers, 98 agree
  that digital, including the delivery of digital
  services/apps, is critical for future business
  success 95 face challenges when it comes to
  achieving a more successful digital strategy."
• With Digital transformation shaping up the IT
  industry, achieving the set goals and providing a
  seamless customer experience is no more a pipe
  dream. But wait, let us first explain the term
  Digital Transformation.

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• A Harvard business review quotes Digital
  transformation as "Digital transformation is an
  ongoing process of changing the way you do
  business. It requires foundational investments in
  skills, projects, infrastructure, and often, in
  cleaning up IT systems. It requires mixing
  people, machines and business processes, with all
  of the messiness that entails."
• Many organisations have started this ambitious
  journey in order to reshape their existing market
  and open the doors to the treasure trove. Enov8
  brings down to you the key challenges faced by
  the organisations which need to be overcome in
  order to have a successful transition.

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• Culture Challenge
• There are very few people who are stimulated by
  organisational change. For most of them, change
  is overwhelming. With the expansion in the
  digital landscape, there is a significant change
  in the structural, behavioural and process
  requirements of an organisation.
• To embrace the change, companies should address
  the changes proactively, be it in terms of the
  new workflow, changes in job roles, test data
  management, and other responsibilities.

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• There may be employees who would be reluctant to
  welcome the changes, but organisations should
  confront these barriers. This process includes
  talking with the employees, informing them about
  the transition time, objectives and the
  commitment requirements.
• A skill gap analysis should also be conducted so
  that new recruitments can be made or training can
  be imparted to meet future goals.

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• Digital Strategy and Vision
• According to Jabil survey, 23 of manufacturers
  admit having a corporate-wide strategy for the
  digital transformation journey. To be in the race
  of digitalisation and under immense market
  pressure, the organisation focuses more on IT
  Environment Management Tools, performance
  benefits etc. Instead, they should focus more on
  the performance improvements and the internal
  alignment of the company's work structure.

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• They need to have a clear goal defined and a
  roadmap to reach that goal, otherwise, success is
  unlikely to happen. The company undergoing
  digital disruption knows well the core existing
  competencies and strengths. These strengths
  should be included in the new strategy, which
  will help them to capture progress towards the
  business vision.

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• The new IT infrastructure and lack of digital
  expertise
• Changes in the current technology stack are
  inevitable during the digital transformation. The
  traditional technology stack may become a barrier
  in delivering polylithic applications. The
  company planning for this new journey should be
  ready to accept the new methodologies,
  dependencies and technology stacks.

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• Along with this, upskill employees should also be
  brought on the board. To overcome this challenge,
  the organisation should adopt a bimodal IT
  approach. Confused with the term? Let us explain
  it to you.
• A Bimodal IT approach includes two modes, mode 1
  and mode 2. Mode 1 which encourages new
  technology and prepares an environment for the
  new process adoption and Mode 2, which continues
  to work on the existing practices. This approach
  maintains a balance and mitigates the chances of
  any risk during the transition.
• During this, the lack of tech expertise can not
  allow the organisation to succeed. Hence
  organisations should have a good combination of
  talent and technology to nail down the
  transformation efficiently.

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• Organisational Structure
• The existing organisational structure
  acknowledges only the departmental internal
  objectives, but the digital initiative involves
  changing of most of the components of the
  organisation. The current workflow, team
  visibility and the feedbacks need to be changed
  for enabling an efficient organisational
  structure.

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• The organisation needs to build a
  customer-focused company and should be flexible
  to include continuous improvements in the
  process. The digital landscape is continuously
  evolving, and it may happen that the workflows,
  technology stacks or the skill set may become
  outdated very quickly.
• Hence the organisation should create a structure
  that is efficient enough to respond to the rapid
  market changes, creating new KPIs and changing
  the new workflow whenever required. The
  organisational structure should be able to
  acknowledge the loopholes and strategically
  increase productivity.
• The digital transformation thus is not only
  digitising documents, but it involves myriads of
  challenges. Changing things on paper sounds
  easier than incorporating the changes into the IT
  test data management and the technology stacks.
• We hope this article helps the organizations to
  overcome the performance issue and develop
  digital capabilities to effectively participate
  in the digital transformation journey.

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