Introduction:

Introduction to six pillars model:

The Six Pillar Model is a tool which can be applied in different company analyses and current digital contexts to measure and analyze the level of digital transformation and guide the company on how to increase their adaptation capacity to a new digital era. It is an evolution of classical digital transformation focused on six key aspects of the company.

Value Proposition

Customer first

Customer Experience

Please make things easy

Operational Processes

Optimize... again and again

Business Models

Do new things, no the same ones

People, Culture and Talent

The only asset that truly matters

Emerging Technologies

Adapt what you need and do not forget data

The context of the corporations exposed to this analysis is:

  • Rapid digital disruption will displace 40% of incumbent companies across 12 industries in five years.
  • Since 2000, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist.
  • The lifetime expectancy of companies on the Fortune 500 list has fallen from 123 years in 1965 to 15 years in 2014.
  • The average age of a company on the S and P 500 was 60 years in 1960; it was 12 years in 2020.

The Advantages of the Six Pillar Model can be summarized as follows:

  • It provides an understandable model for senior and easy company levels.
  • It integrates diverse type of initiatives (short, medium and long term), business and tech alike.
  • It gives visibility to all initiatives since they can all can be mapped against each other in different quadrants.
  • It highlights overlaps and improves financial control.

It is all about a transformation process composed by three main events: Digitization, Digitalization and Digital Transformation. There are differences between them, each of the six pillars belongs, and matches better each of the mentioned transformation events.

1

Digitization

Is about disconnected technology

2

Digitalization

Is about doing the same with new technologies

3

Digital Transformation

Is about holistic change, opening new monetization and markets opportunities

Drag and drop the following elements from the list into the correct box. Each box corresponds to one of the six pillars and their description.

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