1. All Change: Delivering Digital Transformation
AMA London Network meeting, 26 February 2015
Carolyn Royston
@caro_ft
2. • Independent consultant for Cultural sector - focus on digital
strategy and transformation
• Former Head of Digital, Imperial War Museums
o Responsible for all public facing digital media including
online, in-gallery digital experiences, social media
• Project Director, National Museums Online Learning Project,
V&A, a partnership of 9 national museums
• Mentor for #CultureHiveDMA
About Me
3. How are the demands of digital making us change how
our organisations need to function?
How to kick start a digital transformation process and
introduce different mindsets around new ways of
working and collaborating?
What I’m going to talk about today
4. • Digital transformation refers to the changes and challenges
associated with digital technology, across all aspects of
business.
• Digital transformation requires strong leadership to drive
change.
• But also requires a vision for what parts of the business you
want to transform.
• the way you understand and serve your customers
• the way your staff work and collaborate
• the way operational processes are delivered across the
organisation
What do we mean by digital transformation?
5. Key drivers:
• Digital disruption – digital permeates every area of activity
• Increasingly connected customers
• Audience demand and expectations
• External financial pressures requiring more efficient delivery of
services
Why is it important now?
7. A shift is occurring…
Digital as add
on
Maturing
presence
across many
channels
Digital core to
organisation’s
activities
Digital is part
of everyone’s
job
9. Digital
Programme
(strategy)
Website &
collections
Content
authorship &
production
Social Media
CRM,
Analytics &
Insight
Digital
gallery
experiences
Education,
Academic
Research &
Publication
eCommerce
Developmen
t and
fundraising
Leadership,
Governance
& Advocacy
Digital Skills
development
& new ways
of working
Technology
Complex
interconnected
Digital
Programme
• Audiences and customers
• Technology
• eCommerce
• Organisational change
10. A complex landscape
Digital
across all
activity
Complex
stakeholder
management
Specialist
skills and
new
processes
Many
channels of
delivery
A BIG
challenge!
11. Leadership not
providing clear
vision for digital
Working in silos
Not customer
focussed
Priorities unclear,
too many
competing
projects
Merging roles and
responsibilities
New roles
emerging
Outdated
processes
Need to up skill
staff
Increased digital
delivery vs
reduced
resources/budgets
Organisational challenges
19. Digital skills development
• Brainstorm ways to spread digital capability.
• This could include:
• on-the-job training
• new training developed by HR and training
department
• more informal opportunities like Computer
Club
• Use the wide expertise of your organisation, not
What you can do
23. • Brainstorm a project idea
with colleagues
• Prototype the ideas in small,
low risks ways
• Paper prototype
• Use free digital tools
• Recognise different skills
in the group
• Test out on audiences, learn
from success and failures
What you can do
24. • Both museums exploring how digital can solve some
organisational challenges
• Modifying business processes
• Changing the way they work
• Impact across whole organisation
• Requires shift in mindset
Why transformational?
25. • How can digital solutions help to solve your organisational
challenges?
• What processes and techniques do you need to apply to ensure
project delivery in a lean and agile way?
• How do you involve your stakeholders in the digital
transformation process and facilitate new ways of working?
• What is your role or your team’s role in facilitating and
supporting this process?
• How can you build the digital confidence of your staff?
Some takeaway questions…
focus on how best to incorporate digital within an organisation and best practice for successful organisational culture change throughout digital implementation
Senior management team have made a Connected digital a strategic priority. Worked with them to unpack what that really means for the organisation. What do they need to do to become a connected digital museum? What are the priorities? How are they going to get there? By answering those questions, able to create a vision that can be communicated to the rest of the museum. \
Their vision is to create an overarching digital strategy that will enable them to manage digital services across the organisation in a more holistic and integrated way. By having a clear strategic vision and collective way forward for digital, it enables their staff to prioritise projects and see how they fit into wider organisational aims, utilise their resources and time more effectively, plan and budget more accurately and have clearer criteria for success that can be measured against specific organisational objectives.
Introduce new processes and ways of working.
Agile project management is just one example.
Encourages a more user-focussed approach
Iterative working, smaller incremental change
Agree more meaningful measurements of success that can inform future development/direction of travel.
Encourages collaboration and team-working as well as use of collaboration tools.
Build a community of practice where digital project management skills can be nurtured.
Use agile user stories to help prioritise activity
Use collaborative tools
Build a community of practice where digital project management skills can be nurtured.