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Did you know that up to 70% of digital transformation projects fail?

It’s true. 

Want to be a part of the 30% that succeed? 

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The Practical Toolkit

When you invest heavily in a lofty project like digital transformation, you expect to see success. 

Yet, the majority of digital transformation projects fail.

“60-70% of all digital transformation projects have failed over the last 10 years,” observes our CEO, David Antoline.

The reality he’s uncovered is that digital transformation projects don’t fail due to technology choice. 

They fail because organizations select and implement these new tools before preparing an adequate data foundation and understanding their business reality.

The platform-first fallacy

The platform-first approach to transformation is rooted in the urgency surrounding modernization and AI readiness. 

Under pressure to keep up with their more agile competitors, organizations select tools that promise enhancement — from cloud computing platforms to AI development platforms to business applications — without evaluating their data foundation first.

Additionally, organizations often assume that overhauling their entire tech ecosystem in one go is the fastest way to move forward and gain a competitive advantage.

By taking this extensive, platform-first approach, organizations with compromised foundations only discover their data issues after multi-year implementation projects have started. 

The discovery forces them to pause to get their data in order or abandon the project entirely, sometimes months or years in.

The three pillars of strategic digital transformation

Drawing from his decades of experience helping companies modernize their tech ecosystems, David shares that organizations must break with the “platform-first” mindset to succeed. 

He’s learned that successful transformation endeavors rest on three key pillars.

• Pillar 1: Fix Your Data Foundation

• Pillar 2: Amplify Your Edge

• Pillar 3: Sprint to Value

Want to learn more about David’s three-pillar philosophy? Check out our recent playbook.

Industry Radar

• How can your organization grow in turbulent times? Transformation is key, and it requires getting your whole team on board. (McKinsey Quarterly)

• With AI and ML demand surging, you can’t afford to mess up cloud adoption. (IT Pro)

• Only 12% of organizations report their data is of sufficient quality and accessibility for AI. A new study from Precisely and Drexel University reveals the sobering reality of AI readiness. (Precisely)

• Strategy drives digital maturity - only 15% of companies at early stages of digital maturity say they have a clear and coherent digital strategy, while more than 80% of digitally mature organizations do.(MIT Sloan Management Review)

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Creating a solid data foundation is a key component of David’s three-pillar philosophy. Want to learn more about how to get everything in order? Check out our detailed, step-by-step guide.