4 days agoBoost your digitalization: concluding thoughtsHaving worked on the digitalization topic for the last decade or more, with dozens of companies and in a variety of capacities, ranging from researcher to consultant, I keep being amazed at the multi-dimensional, highly interconnected nature of the challenge as well as the lack of understanding and the confusion…Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Nov 27Boost your digitalization: network effectsThere’s a beautiful saying in American English: build it and they will come. The idea is that simply building something and making it available will cause customers to beat a path to your door. To throw their money at you simply to get access to the amazing thing you created. …Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Nov 20Boost your digitalization: platformizeMany of the companies I work with aspire to build an ecosystem around their product portfolio. The idea of having others complement your offering and increasing its stickiness while taking a cut of the revenue generated by these complementors is, of course, incredibly appealing. As with most things in life…Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Nov 13Boost your digitalization: ecosystem dimensionWestern civilization is built on the notion of the sovereign individual: each person is unique with his or her rights, responsibilities, dreams and fears standing separate from others. Buddhist dogma takes the exact opposite perspective: the notion of self is an illusion and the goal of meditation and other religious…Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Nov 6Boost your digitalization: process orchestrationThere’s little doubt in anyone’s mind, I hope, that automation lies at the heart of all the progress in human well-being and economic development. It started with outsourcing physical labor to machines, initially through watermills and windmills and later through the use of internal combustion engines and electric motors. Later…Digitalization5 min readDigitalization5 min read
Oct 30Boost your digitalization: modularize processesAutomation is central for companies that are digitalizing, and new technologies, including natural language processing and image recognition as well as robotic process automation, allow us to automate processes that were impossible or prohibitively expensive to automate earlier. Although I’m a strong proponent of automating everything repetitive, there’s a “dirty…Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Oct 23Boost your digitalization: find the painsAs I walk around in numerous companies, one of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the number of people living out their lives in pretty poor jobs. …Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
Oct 16Boost your digitalization: automation dimensionAs humans, we tend to avoid situations where we experience pain or discomfort. Consequently, many organizations tend to decrease the frequency at which ‘hard’ things are done. …Digitalization5 min readDigitalization5 min read
Oct 9Boost your digitalization: artificial intelligenceEvery few weeks, it seems, we are treated to another major breakthrough innovation in artificial intelligence. …Digitalization5 min readDigitalization5 min read
Oct 2Never waste a good crisisDuring the last weeks, I have gotten quite a few indications that companies are preparing for worse economic times. …Digitalization4 min readDigitalization4 min read
