A Serious Insights How To: Creating A Maturity Model Assessment For several years I worked with GlobalEnglish, a data-driven English learning company (now part of Learnship) that assessed people’s English competencies and offered learning experiences to shore up their deficiencies and take them to new levels of mastery. As an industry analyst, I have developed … [Read more...] about A Serious Insights How To: Creating A Maturity Model Assessment
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Digital Transformation Failures Part 2: Over-promising and Recognizing Limitations
Digital Transformation Failures Part 2: Over-promising and Recognizing Limitations The rapid pace of change. Velocity. Many use those terms to describe what everything about business feels like today. Despite the global pandemic slowing down parts of the economy, the transformation to digital seems all the more obvious and more critical. The time to wait is over, and now is … [Read more...] about Digital Transformation Failures Part 2: Over-promising and Recognizing Limitations
Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail
Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail I recently decided to retire the paper copies of the hundreds of pages I wrote for trade magazines and academic publications over the last few decades. As I read through these articles on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, AI, mobile computing and other topics, it became clear that any attempt to future proof anything will … [Read more...] about Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail
Digital Transformation Failures Part 1: Not Preparing Properly
Digital Transformation Failures Part 1 This multipart series will focus on all the ways digital transformation can fail. Sometimes advice that places a light on the road others have taken will keep you from repeating their mistakes. In Digital Transformation Failures Part 1, I look at the issues related to arriving at digital transformation unprepared. Not being … [Read more...] about Digital Transformation Failures Part 1: Not Preparing Properly
Reflections on Digital Transformation: 4 Critical To-Dos for Navigating Change
In the 1980s, IT departments, likely called Data Processing back then, pioneered digital transformation. Manual processes, such as tracking inventory and work orders on cards or keeping customer records, moved from physical paper in bins or drawers to a computer. The impetus was on storing data and calculation. Making innovative use of the data wasn’t a motivation yet. The … [Read more...] about Reflections on Digital Transformation: 4 Critical To-Dos for Navigating Change