The 4 Tiers of Digital Transformation by @profmohans via @HBR

Companies often assume that if they embrace digital technology in any way, they’re digitally transforming their business. As a result, they often make only ad hoc changes and investments in the digital arena, with ineffectual results. 

I really enjoyed these tiers which helped to compartmentalize it into workable chunks of work or areas to focus on.

Lack of digital standards making data management increasingly complicated by Bob Violino via @infomgmt

With no international alignment on how to regulate the digital environment, organizations are managing an increasingly complicated set of conflicting rules in key markets.

This is definitely going to get worse as I spent much of my working life creating standard data models and mapping data from systems to the data model. Not always easy to achieve data available and easy to understand.

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The 5 key elements for successful digital transformation by Alex Shegda via @infomgmt

Companies are tempted to view transformation as a predominately organizational journey, but they need to think much more holistically in order to achieve success.

Some really good points that should be incorporated into any plans and internal documents around digital transformation.