Your digital transformation needs a map of the terrain. We’ve built one for you.

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HPE uses a customer-proven model for DX that captures and corrals complexity so you can conquer it.

By Craig Partridge, Worldwide Senior Director for HPE Pointnext Services’ Digital Advisory & Transformation Practice

The underlying goal of digital transformation is generally straightforward enough: Create business value. But companies come at it from different angles and with different immediate aims. And some might be transformational, some better described as based in optimization, and often there is a mix of both. They might be looking for cost savings, or to improve agility or efficiency, or to drive new revenue. Complexity creeps in with the multiplicity of contexts and approaches and the far-reaching impacts of DX on the business model.

For HPE, the edge-to-cloud company, an accurate and consistent model of DX in all its aspects and ramifications is clearly crucial for helping our customers achieve that overarching goal of generating value. So we built one. And even though we’ve been helping businesses to advance their digital agendas for a long time, our quest for a general model still proves to be a revelation. I share some of the key insights from that quest in this CIO.com article: Revelations on the road to modelling DX agendas.

Here are a few examples:

• Three things are essential for DX success: Intelligence, trust and the ability to evolve the business model. The ability to turn data into intelligence is, of course, a core capability. But the ability to earn trust in your stewardship of that data – from customers or citizens who engage with you, as well as from external authorities – is important, too. You’ll also need the ability to change how you design operations and create new value propositions – see my CIO.com article Evolve Your Operating Model: It Will Drive Everything.
• The closer to the edge you get with technology, the more use-case-driven the conversation becomes. Cloud projects at the core are often replicable and easily scalable. But much of the action today is in edge computing, where customer wants and needs come into play, value propositions vary hugely between companies and between industries, and differentiation is king.
• A conceptual model for DX can help you visualize and communicate your goals. It gives you a consistent framework for describing, testing and evaluating your digital transformation initiatives.

I delve into each of these insights, and others, in detail in the CIO.com article. I hope you’ll give it a quick read, and if you’d like more information on how to engage with an HPE Digital Next Advisor, contact digitaladvisor@hpe.com.

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Craig Partridge is the Worldwide Senior Director for HPE Pointnext Services’ Digital Advisory & Transformation practice. The practice focuses on helping customers explore the opportunities presented by the digital era, providing them with a strategic framework through which the value of new digital initiatives can be realized. It helps customers link IT and the business desire to use technology as a strategic asset to achieve new levels of productivity, and shows organizations how technology acquisitions can play a major role in helping to reshape and redefine the underlying value proposition of their business model.

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