GET READY FOR THE DIGITAL ERA

Strategies and tools to help CEOs adapt their companies to the digital revolution and make them productive, efficient and agile.

By 2020, digital transformation will have pushed around 40% of today's companies out of the market in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, tourism, education, retail and finance ⁽¹⁾. To survive this scenario, companies must go digital so that they can evolve and thrive in the new economy.

Innovation accelerators such as cloud computing, 3D printing, the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence are increasingly in the spotlight as technologies capable of revolutionising society and the economy. The sectors that rely on data analysis and technology networks to exchange this data digitally are the first to show disruptive potential, including Media and Entertainment, Telecommunications, Financial Services and Retail.

^{(1): Global Center for Digital Business Transformation}

Digital transformation strategy

If your company wants to rise to the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the CEO must lead the digital transformation agenda. The Managing Director should prioritise changing the way the company engages with the market, adds value to its activities, how its employees work and how it deals with its suppliers and business partners.

The foundations of your digital transformation strategy should be:

1. Mapping all capabilities, resources and processes in order to define and execute a portfolio of rapid change initiatives that run in parallel and lead to their optimisation and acceleration.
2. Managing and controlling all company data, and being able to combine it and use it to your own advantage.
3. Continuing to find ways to simplify how you manage work.

How to become a truly digital company

Interview with Mark Schuuring - BCG

Discover how entire industries are being completely transformed by digitalisation, and why flexibility and data management matter so much in the new digital economy.