digital transformation Archives - Innovate. Integrate. Transform. Run.

Technical Debt Management IS People Management
Technical Debt Management IS People Management

Technical Debt Management IS People Management

By Bill Wood|March 3rd, 2021|

Many organizations face a major hidden obstacle with technical debt: people management for those who have a vested interest in the complexity and customization. They have established their careers on building and feeding this technical debt. As a result, they perceive removing that technical debt as a direct threat to their job stability. The change resistance and people issues slow, or in some cases prevent, badly needed changes-- even before making the transition to Digital Business. [...]

The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts
The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts

The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts

By Bill Wood|September 9th, 2020|

On the journey to successful digital business transformation, we simplify technical complexity to reduce technical debt. That complexity creates a vicious cycle that needs to be addressed. If they do not address the need for simplifying and modernizing, many digital initiatives can falter, or even fail. Introducing customization, development, and complexity leads to the need for more customization, development, and complexity. In other words, you create a vicious cycle. As solutions or fixes ag [...]

How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation
How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation

How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation

By Bill Wood|August 11th, 2020|

Technical Debt's High Costs Only Accelerate with Time While finding opportunities in the high cost of technical debt may seem counterintuitive, it is not. By simplifying and modernizing, you free up delivery capacity, and capital, that is tied up in old software (vendor maintenance and support staff). Both the simplification and modernization that come with the technical debt reduction allow you to more quickly make changes (more capacity), while creating a virtuous cycle of improvement. Think [...]

The ERP III Borderless Enterprise Digital Business Model
The ERP III Borderless Enterprise Digital Business Model

The ERP III Borderless Enterprise Digital Business Model

By Bill Wood|July 27th, 2020|

On the Digital Business Transformation journey, our first step was identifying key reasons Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation. After that, we explored Defining Digital Business for understandable goals and insight. In this post, we introduce a modern Digital Business Model based on years of practical experience and peer-reviewed research. Our next posts discuss successful Digital Journey delivery and execution techniques. Research and Our Future Digital Business Transformation Mod [...]

Defining Digital Business
Defining Digital Business

Defining Digital Business

By Bill Wood|July 17th, 2020|

Another post in our series on Digital Business Transformation success. In our previous post on Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation, we discussed the major problem with Digital initiatives, a lack of clarity being one of the causes of their frequent failure. If Digital has no meaning, then it has no focus. Digital is now a marketing buzzword to rebrand all of IT or technology as innovative. The rebrand creates an underlying message that all of your competitors are doing it, [...]

Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation
Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation

Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation

By Bill Wood|July 13th, 2020|

This is the first part in a series on successful digital initiatives and transformation. A few practitioners from Accenture offered their insight in the Harvard Business Review on the "Two Big Reasons Digital Transformations Fail" (October 2019). Their survey results from 1,350 global businesses in seventeen countries and thirteen industries revealed poor returns from Digital Business initiatives. Two driving factors exist for digital initiative shortcomings: 1) Poor leadership alignme [...]