This document discusses the challenges of digital transformation and proposes solutions. It identifies four main challenges companies face: 1) identifying true business value, 2) prioritizing people and culture, 3) limitations of current software and platforms, and 4) using traditional implementation practices. The document argues that to succeed, companies must face these brutal facts head on and focus on clear business goals and values, prioritize people and culture over tools, use software as an enabler not a constraint, and embrace agile implementation practices. The overall message is that digital transformation requires discipline, focus on the future, and addressing key challenges around business value, culture, technology, and implementation approaches.

1. The Journey to achieve Digital Transformation
Denis Morais
President & CTO of SSI

2. Digital
Transformation
• Everyone is going through a Digital Transformation
• How successful are they?

3. • Caused by an incorrect or unclear strategy of “Digitizing what
we do today”
• Illusion of progress can be deadly
• Optimizing for a world which will no longer exist
• Requires discipline and focus
The Digital
Transformation
Illusion

4. Identifying True Business Value
People & Culture
Software & Platforms
Traditional Implementation Practices
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Our Challenges:
Brutal Facts we
cannot Ignore

5. 1. Technology is terraforming the landscape.
1. Completely new solutions not viable before
2. Revitalize old solutions that can work in today’s
environment.
• Crystal Ball to anticipate what clients need in the future.
• Status Quo is an enemy. Cost Cutting is not an End Game
• Do not be a Kodak
Challenge 1:
Identifying True
Business Value

6. • Culture is the hardest problems to overcome, and why
we tend to incorrectly ignore it.
• .People, Process and Tools
• Responsibility is the Leadership team and technology
implementation teams
Challenge 2:
Culture is Eating
our Strategy

7. • No single software or platform supports our holistic
digital needs. Impossible journey to find the coveted
Unicorn
• Most current software do not play nice with other
software systems
• Limited Shipbuilding specific tools
• How to handle legacy information?
Challenge 3:
Software is not
ready for Holistic
Digital Enterprise

8. • Shipbuilding is complex
• Software implementation is also complex, but completely different
• Different mindset is required
Shipbuilding Mindset - Waterfall Software Mindset - Agile
Are we ever going live? How are we going to be better
tomorrow?
Challenge 4:
Traditional
Implementation
Practices

9. • We need to face our known challenges head on
• Understanding the brutal facts sets us up for success
How do we succeed
with our Digital
Transformation?
Face the Brutal facts

10. • There are too many opportunities to do them all. We
need to focus on what your good at.
• Until you decide what is truly important, mostly the
unimportant gets done
• Define clear business goals with looking into the future
• Be ruthless and stay aligned with the goals which will
require not doing all great ideas now.
Solution 1:
Clear & Concise
Business Goals &
Values

11. • Effortless innovation: Having great people & culture will
trump any tool or process
• Culture starts at the top and needs to be communicated
via actions.
• Culture is not always transferable between organizations
• The most important thing to a company is the “right”
people
Solution 2:
Prioritize People
& Culture over
Process and Tools

12. • Enterprise software foundation needs to enable our
strategies not constrain them
• Enterprise architecture will be platform of platforms
• Relationships are what gives data life. Ex. Google Maps
• It is ok to leave legacy information As-Is.
Solution 3:
Software &
Platforms

13. • Be careful of Fake Agile
Agile Key Aspects:
1. Embrace Change
2. Planning is important but do not blindly follow it
3. Small iterations that contain business value
4. Build, analyze, learn, Repeat
5. Reduce Uncertainty with RAT (Riskiest Assumption Test)
Solution 4:
Agile
Implementation

14. • Amount of opportunity with today’s technology is enormous
• All companies are going through a Digital Transformation to leverage and
maximize their potential
• Need to be careful of the Digital Transformation Illusion
• Need to face the brutal facts to be successful.
1. Business Value
2. People & Culture
3. Software & Platforms
4. Implementations
Summary

15. Thank You

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