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"Digital transformation initiatives don't need thousands of people. They need a small team with very little time and very little money." Ok, think this through.
by sgt101 8y ago
"Digital transformation initiatives don't need thousands of people. They need a small team with very little time and very little money." Ok, think this through.
Big businesses have money.
They can create small teams easily.
Creating a short term team with not much money is in the power of every company in the fortune 500, heck, it's in the power of the top 10,000 companies...
And yet we do not see these teams doing these transformations. Shure we see teams creating "friendly digital employee pals" and "Machine learning driven employee survey feedback tools" but what we do not see is small, underfunded teams rapidly changing the face of business.
Because... it's hard. In reality, although executives love the message "small team, no money, fast" the translation that they should be using is "a way of wasting a bit of money and time doing something that will definitely fail"
- ncheek 8y agoIn addition to it being hard to rapidly change the face of business, these teams can be doomed to failure by virtue of the restrictive environment that they exist in - for example having to work within the sprawling policies of the business. I had an opportunity to work in a small digital transformation project at one of these "big businesses". When they had me come in every day and do basically nothing for 2 weeks before they could check all the boxes to ship me an engineering computer, I got the first big glimpse of how big business bureaucracy can doom these sorts of lean teams to failure.