Digital Transformation is a broad subject and many business leaders are still trying to decide if they should enter this process or not. Here are three keys factors to answer this and avoid disruption.
2. 1. Digital Transformation needs to be on your agenda
2. It’s not about Technology
3. Key elements to implement digital transformation successfully
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3. Digital transformation is the integration of
digital technology into all areas of a business,
fundamentally changing how you operate and
deliver value to customers.
(Source: Mckinsey)
What is digital transformation?
6. Ø Low barriers to entry
Software FREE
Hardware FREE
Innovation FREE
Ø It is possible to reach more consumers, more efficiently – GLOBAL
Ø Pace of change - RAPID
Industry disruption is easier with new technology
8. • Humble beginnings as Argus Car rentals in Dublin
• By 1990’s small rental companies being squeezed
out by big players. No access to global
distribution systems - Amadeus
• In 1999 launched online car hire brokerage for independent companies.
• Success led to setting up of cartrawler in 2004 – the car hire booking engine.
• Sold in 2011.
Based in Dublin
• 2,000 online travel retailers
• 100 international Airlines
• 2,000 agents
• 50,000 locations worldwide
• 10.0m customers
• 2017 revenues - €202m
11. Common reactions from within the organisation
Didn’t we do this
last year?
Oh really?
I have no idea what
you are talking
about
Already at full
capacity
Isn’t that a
project for
millennials
I don’t care
about 2030!
12. “Disruption starts with unhappy
customers, not technology”
Source: Harvard Business Review June 2019
Thalen S Teixeria
Where to start a Digital Transformation journey?
15. Key elements to implement digital transformation
successfully
16.
17. How does a project get to be a year late?
One day at a time!
Frederick Brooks
Strong governance
18. • Need strong cross functional team
delivering the transformation projects
• They need different ways of working
Agile Ways of Working
Lean
Scrum
Sprint
19. Key elements to implement digital transformation
successfully
1. Driven by CEO
2. Clear vision
3. Strong Governance
4. Strong cross functional teams
5. Agile ways of working within transformation teams
20. Digital Transformation
ü Needs to be top of your agenda
ü Technology is enabler but changing the culture is often the biggest challenge
ü Start with your customers……opportunities
ü Have a clear roadmap with very specific goals at each stage
ü Must be driven by the CEO, implemented with teams with the technical and
process competencies.