There are plenty of articles and studies about how digital
disruption is affecting If you only look at Artificial Intelligence and Big
Data, the Singularity University recently concluded that Health Care, Banking
and Insurance are at the verge of a major shift. But then, one might argue
about what exactly is meant by digital disruption.
The report “Building your digital DNA, Digitaltransformation in progress” offers a great overview of the industries that will
be most impacted by digital transformation, and the timeframe with which they
will so:
You can argue about the exact position of the industries on
the chart – I for one would give healthcare and government a place more to the
upper left of the spectrum – but the importance of this graphic is the relative
positioning of the industries.
The report gives a great number of case studies of companies
adapting and preparing to this shift. But more importantly, through these case
studies the authors have been able to distill four ‘types’ of digital businesses:
Most companies will recognize themselves in the
‘centralized’ and ‘champions’ model,
though the fully prepared companies will behave like the ‘business as usual’ (BAU)
model, where “business is flexible and responsive to change at all levels” and
teams “form and disband dynamically according to business needs”.
There are very little certainties in these rapidly evolving
times, but certainty is that most (not all) businesses will need to get to this
BAU mode in order to survive.
