Is Your Company Ready for Digital Transformation? A Short Checklist

Every item below to which you cannot answer "yes" points to an area where your transformation needs to start or accelerate.

• We have defined what digital transformation means for our company in terms of measurable business objectives, and top management has taken ownership of these objectives.
• Our sales, procurement, production, finance, and human resources processes run on a single system and a single data model.
• The same information (customer, product, order) is entered only once, in a single place.
• Our managers can see the current state of the business from real-time dashboards without waiting for a report.
• Our employees can securely access the system from outside the office, from mobile devices.
• Our customers, dealers, and suppliers can carry out their own transactions through self-service portals.
• Our system is web-based and runs in the cloud; the burden of hardware, backups, and updates is not on us.
• Our system can be adapted to our industry and our company; we do not have to buy new software for new needs.
• Artificial intelligence and analytics are used as part of our daily work screens, not as separate tools.
• We regularly measure, question, and improve our processes.