Implementing Digital Transformation

Name: Implementing Digital Transformation
Author: Bill Luton

Implement your strategy for digital transformation.

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(gentle music) Let's go over actually implementing digital transformation at your company. In these lessons, we'll examine following metrics, fostering a supportive culture, and developing core competencies. Implementing digital transformation happens once you've fully planned and strategized and you're ready to deploy your new technology, leverage your new organizational skills and debut your new digitally-transformed organization. This part of the process comes after careful strategic planning and performing inventory. It also involves analysis of leadership and other skills your organization currently has and needs to add through training or hiring, and securing the appropriate technology to fuel your transformation. The most important thing you can do in this phase is to carefully implement your plan, so that things go the way you prepared for. This means frequently revisiting your strategic plan and its action items, comparing the planned results with the actual results and adjusting to get on track along the way. To do this, you implement the plan and follow good metrics. What does that mean for you as the leader? First, it means you are the one responsible for making sure the strategic plan you prepared is being implemented. The plan serves as your blueprint for transformation and it's based on the input and feedback you received from all the stakeholders in your organization. The plan is the glue that holds the team together because it's a contract you form with your team. It states what each person will do, what skills they will use or gain and how success will be measured. The plan itself needs good metrics, so you know how you'll measure success. When you craft a specific part of the plan, ask yourself two things. First, what will happen if this part of the plan isn't implemented? Second, what will happen if this part of the plan is implemented? Next, it's best to decide how you'll measure whether each part of the plan has been successfully implemented or not. This is where research comes into play. During the planning stage, if you find the right metrics to use to determine your level of success, you'll be ahead of the game during implementation. You can have weekly meetings where you compare your expected results to your actual ones and you'll be well informed about what might need to be adjusted or changed so that things go closer to the way you plan them, instead of slipping off the grid and drifting away from the plan. The bottom line is that the more disciplined you are about staying true to the plan and measuring results constantly, the more likely your digital transformation will be as successful as you plan for it to be.

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Course Description

Once you’ve implemented digital transformation into your business plan, you need to keep it. What does that mean? This involves keeping a lookout to make sure that your new strategy is actually succeeding, as well as whether your team is not only on board with the process, but that they also have the skills to maintain it. So how can you make sure that everything’s going according to plan, and that the transformation sticks?

In these lessons on Implementing Digital Transformation, you’ll learn to move into the implementation phase of a strategic plan designed to transition your organization from its current state to a digitally transformed state. You’ll be able to do this by measuring the right factors so you can make necessary adjustments, fostering and supporting a transformational and supportive culture to keep your team invested, and strengthening your team’s grasp on important core competencies that will take you well into the future.

What You'll Learn

Implement digital transformation by working your strategic plan
Analyze results by measuring the right factors and following good metrics
Recognize how to foster a transformational and supportive culture
Develop and deepen core competencies to fuel the future of your organization
Make necessary adjustments to keep your transformation on track and ensure it sticks

Key Takeaways

Implementing digital transformation means moving into the implementation phase of a strategic plan that transitions your organization from its current state to a digitally transformed state.
Sustaining a transformation requires monitoring whether the new strategy is actually succeeding and measuring the right factors so you can make necessary adjustments.
Keeping a team invested depends on fostering and supporting a transformational and supportive culture.
Strengthening your team's grasp on important core competencies helps carry the organization well into the future.
Success depends on ensuring your team is on board with the process and has the skills to maintain it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers how to move into the implementation phase of a strategic plan that transitions your organization to a digitally transformed state, including working your plan and following good metrics, analyzing results to make necessary adjustments, fostering a transformational and supportive culture, and developing and deepening core competencies.

Who is this course for?

It is for people who have already implemented digital transformation into their business plan and need to keep it by ensuring their new strategy succeeds and that their team is on board and has the skills to maintain it.

What skills will I gain?

You will learn to measure the right factors and make necessary adjustments, foster and support a transformational and supportive culture to keep your team invested, and strengthen your team's grasp on core competencies.

What lessons are included?

The lessons are Working the Plan and Following Good Metrics; Fostering a Transformative and Supportive Culture; Developing and Deepening Core Competencies; and Test Your Knowledge.