10 Things That Digital Business Leaders Do
What Digital Leaders Do: Learning Curve
They help their organizations become “data literate” at all levels—no matter what the individual roles are—so that analytics drives business decisions.
What Digital Leaders Do: Uncanny Impression
Through analytics, they use social media to assess the opinions, behaviors and preferences of a target market with a previously unobtainable level of accuracy.
What Digital Leaders Do: All In
They embrace Everything as a Service (Eaas) to minimize costs and maximize flexibility.
What Digital Leaders Do: Rapid Response
They deploy “extreme coding” or “agile development”—shorter development cycles to add checkpoints in which new user and customer requirements can be added—to more quickly respond to demands.
What Digital Leaders Do: Shortened Shelf Life
They refresh business apps every month, and replace them every year. Otherwise, they know they’ll fall behind their competition.
What Digital Leaders Do: Measuring Stick
They define any and all critical metrics that will track the inputs and outputs of each business process, to effectively evaluate success.
What Digital Leaders Do: Calendar Item
Through enhanced analysis and predictive monitoring, they cut cycle times of all business processes in half every 12 to 18 months.
What Digital Leaders Do: Safety in Numbers
They combine the cloud, quantification and outcomes-based strategies to make their business crowdsourceable.
What Digital Leaders Do: Winning Proposition, Part I
They gamify internal collaborative platforms to encourage employees to increase their participation in business.
What Digital Leaders Do: Winning Proposition, Part II
They gamify consumer-facing blogs, social media and the company Website to increase value-adding customer interactions.
