A friend’s blog post complained that to terminate his account of a national service provider, he had to physically go to the main state branch. The cumbersome process he experienced was a waste of time.
It was surprising that this organisation had invested hundreds of millions in their ERP system, yet they can’t get this correct. Obviously, there wasn’t anything transformational about this company.
How come?
The sad truth is that many organisations think that putting up a new e-commerce site or new accounting system is going to make wonders and transform their organisation – the money will roll in, the cost will go down and world peace will eventually be realised.
The brutal truth
The failure of IT projects is that it is treated as merely an IT project. This thinking has failed to meet its core promise to transform and better our lives.
In our Digital Transformation assessment, the parameters are customer experience, leadership, ops/ processes, data, training and technology. It is worth noting that 70% of the assessment centres around human behaviour rather than technology.
Implementing a Digital Transformation project (as if it’s an IT project), is like placing a square peg into a round hole. IT project implementation has nothing to do with organisational transformation. Here are some of the gaps:-
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It uses too much technical jargon which no one really understands except for the geeks (no offence to the nerds);
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Training the users is done at the end when everyone has forgotten what the project is about, and to be honest, no one really pays attention to the training or read the manuals;
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Does not consider end-user analytics or links it to customer experience, so most IT projects are “Syok sendiri” projects and have no relevancy to the customer that keeps the organisation afloat.
So how?
The industry has evolved but surprisingly it is not the norm here. We are still implementing projects like it is the beginning of the MSC.
The new method is people-centric.
Stay tuned for our next blog on one of the Top 100 cooperatives in Malaysia that have successfully utilised this method to transform and adapt during the pandemic.
Source: Did The Billions In IT Investments Transform Our Organisations?
