Using Online Community for Digital Transformation
Driving successful change in a large organization has always been one of the most difficult activities in business. But for those who are principally tasked with carrying their organizations forward into the digital future, they are currently facing perhaps the single most challenging large-scale enterprise activity of our time. One has only to look at […]
The Building Blocks of Digital Transformation: Community, Tech, Business Models, and a Change Platform
I’ve been making the argument lately that the single largest obstacle in successful digital transformation is change itself. Surprisingly, the arrival of new technology is generally not the large hurdle to becoming more digital in a meaningful way, though it certainly represents a large and growing learning curve. Yet learning the new technology is manageable […]
More Evidence Online Community is Central to the Future of Work
Within the last month, two new industry reports have been released that shed important new light on how we’re going to be organizing and operating our organizations in the coming years. Many of you know my point of view in this regard: Social technology has at this point largely transformed the consumer world, yet the […]
The Hardest Lesson of Digital Transformation: Designing for Loss of Control
It goes hand in hand with another key principle that sets digital strategy well apart from many other traditional ways of achieving organizational objectives. One of the counterintuitive lessons of digital and social business is that the network itself can and should do the majority of the work, if you’ll only build a little social […]
How Should Organizations Actually Go About Digital Transformation?
This is now the question that is top of mind in a large number of enterprises today, as speeding up adaptation to rapidly evolving digital markets is now not just a requirement to grow today, but increasingly to survive. This is not incautious language and I’ve been pointing to the relatively urgent data for several […]
How IT and the Role of the CIO is Changing in the Era of Networked Organizations
As I examined the case examples below, and talked with many top CIOs about how they were operating their departments over the last several years, it’s clear that the contemporary IT organization — at least ones that are successfully leading their organizations into the future — are now wielding a new kind of power. I […]
What Are the Required Skills for Today’s Digital Workforce?
As I spend a great deal of time every year looking at the latest technological advances for the enterprise, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years that’s long been true but is clearly markedly accelerating. That trend is that technology has officially pulled well ahead of the workplace skills of even the most proactive manager […]
Let The Network Do The Work
One of the most striking things I seen when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based models, is that we keep trying to employ the new tools and ideas in the same old ways. Certainly, it’s quite hard to unlearn the old methods, so deeply instilled are they […]
Going Beyond ‘Bolt-On’ Digital Transformation
Much has been made recently of the imperative to fully transition our businesses into the modern digital world. It now hardly needs to be said at this point. There is even some encouraging news for traditional enterprises: The latest data from Forrester shows that companies are indeed at long last making digital transformation a top […]
Shifting the Meaning of Hierarchy to Community
Over the last year or so, a fascinating bow wave of interest has been converging on a growing cadre of companies who appear to be doing something quite novel and seemingly new. Specifically, these organizations have apparently thrown off many of the traditional structures and processes of corporate management. Interestingly, all of these organizations are […]
