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– The introduction of digital technologies is one of the tasks of digitalization. The global challenge is digital transformation, with a redefinition of processes, goals, models and strategies.

– Digital transformation is only a tool. More important is the overall quality of management, team. You cannot focus only on numbers.

You need highly qualified employees. Additionally, this means that policy management and aggressive management will no longer be applicable. Such employees are highly mobile, with mismanagement you will have to constantly recruit new personnel, teach them, and then lose them, and so on.

– In the Gartner diagram, many digital technologies are near the peak of high expectations. Disappointment will follow, and only after we learn how to use all these tools will there be value.

– There are no employees on the market with full set of necessary competencies. Team members are likely to have one or two strong competencies to use.

– Basic digital literacy increases the likelihood of digital transformation succeeding.

When implementing digital projects, a large number of users are affected, and the level of their basic IT training can vary. The accumulated statistics showed that «tightening» of basic PC skills significantly increases the probability of successful implementation of digital solutions in general.

– Basic for all competences are the ability to solve poorly structured problems, system and critical thinking, digital skills.

– The introduction of technologies and transformation can be carried out independently: allocate resources and people, work according to a matrix.

Your chances of success are 20 to 30%, at least 10% of your employees will be gone, you will have to bear a huge cost and the implementation period will be 2.5—3 years.

I recommend finding a company that specializes in digital transformation and will communicate with people while remaining independent of domestic policy. It will digitize the project, prepare proposals for optimization and necessary changes in culture, processes, necessary training programs for employees and will implement everything gradually. Then you won’t have to get rid of the time team on this project.

– To understand whether you need digitalization and digital transformation, ask yourself a few questions:

– how competitive is your industry?

– is it possible to replace your product or service with a digital one?

– do you have market preferences that are not available to other members?

– what is the threshold of entry?

Answers to them will already give an idea of how far you need to move forward. Additionally, the main criterion – it is necessary to deal with digitization if your revenue depends on a few key customers.