Nailing your mindset for digital transformation
This series opens with the argument that mindset matters just as much as technology itself when it comes to digital transformation, noting that while the pandemic pushed businesses to innovate faster, a risk-averse culture and excessive red tape remain significant barriers to embracing change. A central theme is the importance of employee buy-in, with the series urging leaders to involve staff at all levels — not just push change from the top — by communicating a clear roadmap, offering digital skills training, and building a corporate culture that treats innovation as a collective endeavour rather than the preserve of a select IT team.
Now that we find ourselves several months into the year, digital innovation projects that were touted for early 2021 should now be well and truly underway.
Corporate culture embodies of all the written and unwritten rules, values and attitudes that characterise an organisation. It offers an insight into how business decisions are reached, and how they will be implemented. By extension, then, internal culture is the also the foundation upon which all successful innovation must be built.
Businesses reeling from the effects of the pandemic feel like they have been given an ultimatum: transform or die. And while we have seen unfortunate consequences for the companies that were unable to adapt fast enough, it is important to remember that more often than not, digital innovation isn’t all or nothing.
