In boardrooms across industries, digital strategies are being defined with urgency and ambition. Transformation programs are announced, "digital agendas" crafted, and steering committees launched. Yet, the results are sobering: most digital transformation programs fail. And even the ones labelled "successful" rarely deliver the value promised in the pre-study phase. Why? The answer is as simple as it is uncomfortable: digital has become the goal, not the means . Instead of enabling better, faster, smarter business, digitalisation often replicates what already exists, only now more complex, costly, and rigid. Manual processes are taken over as-is. Exceptions are copied. Legacy thinking is digitized. And the result is a digital replica of inefficiency, dressed in sleek dashboards. Let’s be clear: digital technology is not a strategy. It’s a tool. You only need one company strategy, coherent, cross-functional, and ambitious. Digital must be woven into that strate...
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