Digitization requires a solid cross functional strategy and vision that are backed up by business cases. After the direction is formed it is much easier to start creating roadmap, build up cross functional governance, build up competences. Implementation should happen in a rapid prototyping way in order to show quickly successes and failures. Digitization Changes Processes. One should focus on the process improvements and not on the technical implementation and tools There are often various obstacles to move forward with digitization. Sometimes this is due to the lack of knowledge on digitization possibilities and lack of understanding new concepts like customer experience, sales analytic, knowledge and product management. Gapgemini and MIT research shows that companies with clear vision and functioning digital governance are over 20% more profitable than their counterparts in the industry. http://www.capgemini-consulting.com/digital-transformation New Capabilities are needed in both marketing and sales 50-70% of the buying decision is made before the sales representative makes contact. (Forrester). New capabilities like IT oriented marketing, customer experience, analytic, social selling are needed in organisations. B2B buyers complain that only 29% of sales reps are well prepared to engaged with them. (IDC) Combining personalization, marketing automation and different channels like online and print will bring the best benefit in marketing.By combining various marketing activities and channels will create omnichannel experience and at the same time renew internal processes. Sales representatvies using social selling have a 3.6x greater change to meet a decision maker. (Sales Benchmark Index)