Kick Starting The Journey
Inertia, procrastination, red tape, politics and a lack of dedicated resources often cause organisations to delay their transformation often leading to one-foot out, one-foot-in. Time does not stop moving! Kickstarting the journey is not a train smash. Have a clear organisational vision, strategy and plan is required in order to align the transformation journey and the organisational purpose. An elephant is best eaten in bite-size-chunks they say. Carefully defining the building blocks and adopting a modularised approach often helps in making the journey less daunting. Test and learn approaches are increasingly being applied when building Use Cases. Organisations have to therefore define their Minimum Viable Propositions (MVPs) and commission pilots. Organisations can then incrementally invest on success. Trusting the process is often a key ingredient as organisations tend to cane/cut-off transformation projects too quickly if results are not achieved on time. In many instances, the time it takes to build and orchestrate Digital Platforms and Ecosystems is often understated leading to the frictional and agency costs. It is debatable as to which operating models organisations should adopt when kickstarting the transformation. There’s often directional consensus amongst the players on the ground that creating incubated, ring-fenced and dedicated focused resources often leads to more traction being gained subject of course to all the cultural and political filters and hurdles at play within the organisation. Agreeing milestones upfront is often encouraged in order to align stakeholders come decision-making time. Some research encourage putting in place some metrics measures of performance such as for example, the acquisition of the first customer through the Digital Platforms and Ecosystems. Measurement metrics can then be increased overtime as the transformation journey beds down and start gaining traction. Impact Orchestrator works with organisations to assist them in kick-starting and walking their journeys noting that there is no one-size-fits-all but rather acknowledging that each journey is different.