Your Complete Guide to Digital Transformation A Field Guide to Digital Transformation is the definitive book on digital transformation. Top-selling IT author Thomas Erl and long-time practitioner Roger Stoffers combine to provide comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand coverage of essential digital transformation concepts, practices, and technologies in the format of a plain-English tutorial written for any IT professionals, students, or decision-makers. With more than 160 diagrams, this guide provides a highly visual exploration of what digital transformation is, how it works, and the techniques and technologies required to successfully build modern-day digital transformation solutions. Learn from the experts and: Discover what digital transformation is, why it emerged and when to apply it Identify the significant business benefits that successful digital transformations can deliver and how to turn your organization into a “disruptive” force Prepare for and overcome the common challenges associated with digital transformation initiatives Understand the data-driven nature of digital transformation solutions and how they use and continually accumulate data intelligence Understand how digital transformation solutions can utilize AI technology for intelligent automated decision-making Gain insight into customer-centricity and how its practices are applied as part of digital transformations Explore key digital transformation automation technologies, such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain. and Cloud Computing Explore key digital transformation data science technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Big Data Analysis and Analytics The book concludes with a uniquely detailed and highly visual real-world business scenario that provides step-by-step insights into how a digital transformation solution works, how it utilizes data intelligence to improve customer relationship building, and how it collects new data intelligence in support of enhancing future business capabilities.

Disruption impacts every industry, and it is essential for an organization to meet or exceed stakeholder expectations. How an organization manages the ever-changing world of digital evolution in the present will ultimately shape and determine its future. With this field guide, you will learn how to integrate people, processes, and technology to create greater efficiencies and profit. More importantly, you'll realize that digital transformation is a dynamic, ongoing process that allows your organization to not just survive but thrive in the world of digital evolution. This field guide provides insight and guidance by: - Explaining how organizations can embrace digital disruption and redefine how they work and serve employees and customers - Streamlining an ongoing current digital transformation journey while being proactive and envisioning big-picture outcomes - Evaluating three components that are critical to an organization's future and understanding how to incorporate them into strategic and tactical plans - Reviewing lessons learned by global market leaders that have been able to pivot digitally to meet their customer's needs Therese Costich is president and managing partner of the Costich Group. She has spent more than 25 years in the digital transformation, lean six sigma, and continuous improvement world, working with employees from the C-suite to front-line associates, for several Fortune 500 companies.

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Now updated for the 2019 Wave 2 release.Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company, to user customizations and integration. Business Central used to be Dynamics NAV and before that Navision. NAV has always been a partner-driven application. Customers buy the software at a partner, and the partner helps with implementation. A great model that has worked for over a million users across the globe.Now Business Central is a cloud offering; there's no longer an installation. You no longer need an IT guy to install it and then a consultant to help you set it up. You can do that yourself. Most customers still chose to get the consultant help to make sure you're doing it right and to ensure a great start.This book is written to help customers who venture into Business Central, with or without external help. Written to help understand the system and ensure a great experience starting with Business Central. The book is not written to be read from cover to cover. Instead, it's meant to be a Field Guide. A companion book to help you through the implementation. And later, when you need information on a specific topic or if you need a bit of inspiration. The documentation from Microsoft is pretty good, and I'll provide links for deep dive and background information.Business Central covers a vast area of functionality, and the book includes the areas and issues I encounter in my daily work with Business Central customers. I'll add new chapters and details based on my experience and reader feedback.I'm using an English language layer on my Business Central throughout this book. If your Business Central is not in English, switch temporarily to English in My Settings to more comfortable being able to follow the instructions.If you cannot find the answer you need in the book, feel free to contact me. I'm always open to suggestions for the next topic.

Is digitalization a value-added approach? Global leaders believe so, and this book reveals how to digitally transform your business model and compete in today’s economy. It presents a roadmap consisting of five phases; Digital Reality, Digital Ambition, Digital Potential, Digital Fit, and Digital Implementation, each with step-by-step instructions as well as innovative activities and tools. This is a timely book offering professionals a concise, tried-and-trusted guide to the digital transformation of business models.

Every organization makes plans for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that’s not enough anymore for the twenty-first-century company. The race is now on for everyone to become a digital enterprise. For those individuals who have been charged with leading their company’s technology-driven change, the pressure is intense while the correct path forward unclear. Help has arrived! In Driving Digital, author Isaac Sacolick shares the lessons he’s learned over the years as he has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations and helped shape digital-business best practices. Readers no longer have to blindly trek through the mine field of their company’s digital transformation. In this thoroughly researched one-stop manual, learn how to: • Formulate a digital strategy • Transform business and IT practices • Align development and operations • Drive culture change • Bolster digital talent • Capture and track ROI • Develop innovative digital practices • Pilot emerging technologies • And more! Your company cannot avoid the digital disruption heading its way. The choice is yours: Will this mean the beginning of the end for your business, or will your digital practices be what catapults you into next-level success?

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2018 - Management Futures Category Building Digital Culture aims to answer a simple question: How can organizations succeed when the environment they operate in is changing so quickly? The last thing businesses need today is a digital strategy. Instead, their strategy needs to be fit for our fast-changing digital world, where businesses have more data than they know what to do with, a media landscape that's exploded in size and complexity, the risk of a new disruption around every corner, and only one certainty: that this change won't let up. Building Digital Culture doesn't address whether or not you should advertize on Facebook or invest in virtual reality. It doesn't seek to unearth a silver bullet to make digital investments a sure-thing. It steps back from the hype, and argues that whatever digital might mean for your business, if you don't create a digital culture you'll most likely fail, or at least fall short of what you want to achieve. Combining more than 30 years of experience at the forefront of marketing and digital developments, and based on more than 200 hours of research, candid interviews and contributions from brands including Twitter, Deloitte, HSBC and many more, Building Digital Culture will help you navigate from being a business that tolerates or acts digital, to one that truly is digital.

Cut through the hype and decide on a digital roadmap for your organization with this practical, step-by-step guide to delivering successful digital transformation.