Implementing Digital Strategy: How To Ensure It Doesn’t Fail

[You]

Here are some tips to ensure effective implementation of digital strategy and avoid failure:

• Secure executive sponsorship and make leaders accountable for results.
• Ensure tight alignment between digital strategy and overall business strategy.
• Break strategy into achievable milestones and actionable tasks.
• Appoint digital strategy owners across departments and empower them.
• Allocate sufficient budget and resources to support implementation.
• Develop clear KPIs and metrics for tracking progress.
• Maintain flexibility to adapt strategy based on market changes and learnings.
• Provide frequent communications on digital strategy across the company.
• Closely monitor risks factors like budget overruns, technical debt, skill gaps.
• Foster a collaborative, agile culture versus rigid silos.
• Make changes progressively in small steps rather than big bang approach.
• Incentivize behaviors that reinforce strategy - innovation, testing, upskilling.
• Review strategy periodically to validate or adjust based on performance.

With strong leadership commitment, capable execution, disciplined tracking and flexibility, companies can transform digital strategy from ideas to impact.

 

[Golden9]

If everyone knows what to do and how, and the potential problems they will encounter, you've done half of the job and things can go smoothly. Most issues arise from avoidable mistakes.

 

[Bisolami]

This is why it is good to ask questions instead of you just doing the basic things that you know because it may not be the right things you are supposed to do but you do not know because you did not ask questions

If everyone knows what to do and how, and the potential problems they will encounter, you've done half of the job and things can go smoothly. Most issues arise from avoidable mistakes.

 

[eldavis]

Personally i think research should also be part of the the list. Having a good research on your target audience plays a very important role on how effective your strategy would and should be.