- Companies around the world are facing numerous economic
and technical realities.
Traditional industries are under attack, competition
is becoming more dynamic, customer preferences
and expectations are forever shifting and the technology
landscape is becoming more central to everything
a business does and how it does it.
Honing in specifically on the technology landscape,
it's not uncommon to find boards, C suites, and leadership
teams wrangling with concepts like robotic process
automation, machine learning, blockchain, deep learning,
and a raft of other technical tools struggling
to determine the roles they may play across
every single aspect of a business.
It's also not uncommon for these same C suites to be
making huge declarative moonshot statements
about how the use of these technologies is going to save
the business millions, even billions so that they may
survive in a competitive new world.
And that's the environment in which you are tasked to lead.
My name's Ian Barkin, I co-founded one of the world's
leading digital transformation consulting firms
and I spend a (mumbles) of my time helping large
enterprises navigate the landscape, weed out the hype
from the enterprise grade, and put together actionable
plans to make real digital transformation happen.
This course has been designed for the leaders of enterprises
and the teams that support them.
It's born from necessity, there's too much noise out there.
Expectations are being set incorrectly and managing
the digital enterprise requires a set of skills that are
not easy to come by through traditional means.
In this course, I'll do three things.
First, we'll discuss the business landscape and key concepts
of digital operations.
Second, we'll discuss some of the tools, templates,
and best practices that will help you prepare your
business for the digital ops trend.
And finally we'll cover a list of lessons learned
and cautionary tales in the hopes that your journey
will be a smooth one.
Now here's my promise to you, you're busy and you don't
have time for long-winded courses, you want short,
sharp, concept sprints, ways to get to up to speed quickly
and ways to share ideas with those who report to you
and those with whom you work, so let's get going.