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Reopening without a plan is risky…
George Moakly
July 13, 2020
Reopening without a plan is risky…
Are you risking the health of your staff? Are you missing opportunities to recoup revenue through digitally transformed services? Are you making investments that you’ll have to rip out and replace in a year or two?
For most companies, Digital Transformation was a grand plan that you were committed to implement … someday.
The ROI was clear; the pressing needs and opportunities without question, but there was always something else that bubbled to the top, needing to be addressed. And your Digital Transformation was postponed. Just one more year…
As we progress from ‘Flattening the Curve’ through ‘After the Apex’ (see my April 7th blog), companies and governments are working through plans to reopen businesses. But it’s clear that things have not returned to normal and won’t for quite some time. We still need to ensure we don’t overwhelm our healthcare infrastructure with a surge in infections.
Suddenly, the ‘pressing needs and opportunities’ became a matter of survival. Your grand, multi-year Digital Transformation plan has become a series of tactical moves to keep your business open while minimizing your employee’s exposure.
So, where does that leave you?
It’s not simply a matter of taking your Digital Transformation plan and implementing it, because THAT plan had a multiyear horizon with significant investments whose return might not be realized for a year or two.
Now, you need a new plan. One that reflects the upheaval in our lives. One that lays out a series of modest, incrementally beneficial steps that address your immediate needs with an eye towards both tomorrow and the future.
Before the pandemic, we would have recommended a Strategic Planning workshop, during which we’d work together to thoroughly review your business. We’d work with your stakeholders and leadership to understand your competitive positioning and potential competitive disruptions, create a set of aspirational, realizable Key Objectives, develop the Strategies to achieve those Key Objectives, and lay out a roadmap of Key Results to be regularly reviewed as indicators of progress, facilitating the agility you’d need to achieve your Key Objectives through the strategic window.
But what you need NOW is an abbreviated version of our Strategic Planning workshop, balancing a focus on immediate to near term actions with a high-level strategic outlook to ensure your investments won’t be dead ends that need to be ripped out and replaced.
Bottom lines?
There’s a lot of complexity, you don’t have a lot of time, and you’re probably dealing with business disruptions impacting your cash flow.
So, what you’ll need is a roadmap that lays out a series of small, incremental steps with real and quick financial benefits to not only help your business survive but thrive, with an eye towards the future.
We can help. We have the expertise and experience to help you craft and implement that roadmap.
Digital Transformation Call to Action
Digital Transformation is what we do.
We can help you keep your business running today and plan for the new normal.
#YourBusinessGoesOn
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