#ThinkLookActDigital

My name is Ravi Jay and I am passionate about Agile & Digital Transformation and Conversational AI. I drank my kool-aid during my days as the Chief Digital Officer for myMzone. That was hard. These days, I work with Executive Leaders on the digital imperative, agile transformation and culture change. “Digital. Simplified” is my view on emerging #Digital, #AgileTransformation trends along with Introverted Leadership. I listen to #ThinkLookActDigital on Twitter. My handle is @ravi_jay1.

Digital Transformation for my clients is about delivering a rich consumer experience through analytics and insight in a multi-channel world. It is about leveraging customer intimacy to open up avenues for business development and improving operational efficiency; thereby enabling you to give more value back to the customer.

So, what are the challenges?
1) Understanding what digital transformation means to an organisation.
2) Mapping out the skills and capabilities.
3) Technology delivering business and not business supported by technology.
Interestingly, technology is the least of the challenges.

Organisations will do well to evolve their digital strategy based on two pillars:
1) Choice – how to help each customer pick the right products from the wide range available
2) Simplicity – how to better make those products available to the consumer, and recommend relevant alternative products based on rich insight.

Transformation is a means to an end, it is mostly about understanding what the customer really wants. It is about maintaining a complete view on customer and looking at every available interaction through an analytics lens. Customer centric operations makes it easier to communicate directly with the customer through any available channel – emerging trends clearly indicate that #winning requires ecosystems built around customers.

The rules of consumer engagement are continually evolving, as technologies mature, devices become more connected, and consumers’ expectations change.

Gone are the days of one-way advertising. Retailers can now use multiple channels to engage and target huge numbers of customers at a time on a personal level, generating instant and contextual feedback that can provide the insight that facilitates rapid innovation and turn businesses into lean, learning-driven organisations.

Social media underpins a very important value – customer-centricity – and emerging trends clearly indicate that winning requires ecosystems built around customers.

After all, why set up shop on every high street, when it’s easier to have one in every pocket?

What are your thoughts?
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