The Power Of Digital Transformation In A Data-Driven World

Organizations that view digital transformation as mainly a technology difference from traditional transformation through business process engineering will end up missing the power of digital transformation. How is digital transformation different from business process re-engineering? A digital transformation journey moves an organization from a process-defined world to a data-driven world. Let’s look at why this is powerful and how it changes the value an organization delivers to customers and end users.

Digital Collapses Processes

In our current world, businesses are set up along processes, and they try to develop world-class processes. Six Sigma and other tools are designed to refine and improve those processes to create efficiency, focus and improvement in quality. In contrast, digital transformation shrinks down processes that a business currently does or could do, automates work people were doing and turns the process into software. What’s left is data.

Read more at my Forbes blog