From Informed Decisions: Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig and Ronja Francoeur

From Informed Decisions: Conversations and Q&A
with Randall Craig and
Ronja Francoeur

Digital vs Transformation: A Leadership Discussion

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About this episode: 

Your industry has changed with aggressive new entrants, costs have shot up, and new tech (eg. AI) has opened fascinating new opportunities. Digital transformation to the rescue!

Yes, your organization may have outgrown its current tech stack. And vendors are knocking at the door with fascinating (and “transformative”) new solutions. But will the effects be “transformative”, and how is any of it aligned with your overall strategy?

This month, let’s talk about digital transformation:

• STRATEGIC digital transformation

• Digital transformation mistakes to avoid

• Change management best practices that work, and much more!

Part 1

Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

• 01:12 What are the foundational ideas we need to have to start this conversation on digital transformation?

• 8:34 The first ingredient for a digital transformation is strategy, so how can an organization (or organizational leader) know whether they have genuine strategy (as opposed to just “a plan”)?

• 12:10 Most digital transformation projects fail… why is that? What themes do you see? What knowledge gaps exist for so many digital transformation efforts to fail?

• 16:24 What are some best practices for implementing and executing new strategies for a team? It is easy to lose focus on changes and have momentum stall.

• 21:40 We don’t know what we don’t know, so how can we strategize effectively? How can we use AI in our digital transformation when we don’t know (and no one really knows) how to use AI?

• 25: 22 In our efforts to move as much as possible to digital (and AI), how can we avoid losing the baby with the bathwater ie. being strategic with our use of human-only abilities that digital and AI cannot substitute?

• 01:11 Planning vs Action i.e. speed of decision making: How important is a robust planning and research phase vs speed to implementation or speed to market?

• 07:02 Does “digital transformation” have to be all encompassing? Can’t modernization and digitization or automation be enough?

• 14:16 What if the first step in a digital transformation process?

• 18:42 Digital transformation: Investing in technology or investing in people?

• 20:34 Digital transformation when things are going well: Is “good enough” holding you back?

• 23: 44 Do you agree that AI/transformation is only as good at the input going in? So using team and consulting input can really add to result?

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Digital vs Transformation: 
A Leadership Discussion

About this episode: 

Your industry has changed with aggressive new entrants, costs have shot up, and new tech (eg. AI) has opened fascinating new opportunities. Digital transformation to the rescue!

Yes, your organization may have outgrown its current tech stack. And vendors are knocking at the door with fascinating (and “transformative”) new solutions. But will the effects be “transformative”, and how is any of it aligned with your overall strategy?

This month, let’s talk about digital transformation:

• STRATEGIC digital transformation

• Digital transformation mistakes to avoid

• Change management best practices that work, and much more!

Part 1

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

• 01:12 What are the foundational ideas we need to have to start this conversation on digital transformation?

8:34 The first ingredient for a digital transformation is strategy, so how can an organization (or organizational leader) know whether they have genuine strategy (as opposed to just “a plan”)?

• 12:10 Most digital transformation projects fail… why is that? What themes do you see? What knowledge gaps exist for so many digital transformation efforts to fail?

• 16:24 What are some best practices for implementing and executing new strategies for a team? It is easy to lose focus on changes and have momentum stall.

• 21:40 We don’t know what we don’t know, so how can we strategize effectively? How can we use AI in our digital transformation when we don’t know (and no one really knows) how to use AI?

• 25: 22 In our efforts to move as much as possible to digital (and AI), how can we avoid losing the baby with the bathwater ie. being strategic with our use of human-only abilities that digital and AI cannot substitute?

Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

01:11 Planning vs Action i.e. speed of decision making: How important is a robust planning and research phase vs speed to implementation or speed to market?

07:02 Does “digital transformation” have to be all encompassing? Can’t modernization and digitization or automation be enough?

14:16 What if the first step in a digital transformation process?

18:42 Digital transformation: Investing in technology or investing in people?

20:34 Digital transformation when things are going well: Is “good enough” holding you back?

23: 44 Do you agree that AI/transformation is only as good at the input going in? So using team and consulting input can really add to result?

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