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An executive’s guide to 
reimagining the enterprise 
in the digital age
2 
Table of contents 
Introduction page 3 
Fostering a culture of business innovation page 5 
Building a technology platform for the future page 11 
Developing your enterprise strategy page 16
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Introduction 
In today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world, enterprises are reimagining 
their products, services, and even entire business models. Businesses are 
exploring what’s possible in an all-digital environment where information 
and intelligent systems are available anytime, anywhere, on any device. 
What is behind this change? 
The mobile-first, cloud-first enterprise 
In many respects, change is being driven from the outside 
in. Today’s pervasive use of connected technology has 
changed customer expectations dramatically. Customers 
expect answers to their enquiries at any time, from 
anywhere. They expect to be able to view their information 
and manage their relationships with businesses in any 
number of ways and from mobile devices in particular. 
They expect personalized customer service, wanting to 
be known and understood whenever they engage with 
a business. This, in turn, is both forcing companies to 
provide the experiences that people expect and creating 
an opportunity to compete in new and different ways. 
It’s little surprise that enhancing the customer experience 
has emerged as a top priority for both business and IT 
executives in enterprises. As The Conference Board 
reports, 
“Engaged employees and satisfied 
customers dominate thinking of 
CEOs in 2014.”1 
The key to meeting—and exceeding—customers’ 
expectations in this highly competitive technological 
environment is digital transformation. Transforming to 
a digital business is now considered a requirement by 
virtually every enterprise. In fact, Gartner makes a direct 
connection between digital readiness and future potential 
business success in the digital age: 
“the CEO’s digital savvy is one of the best 
indicators of IT and business performance.”2 
The digital business is far more than a rethinking of 
individual business processes for digital efficiency. It is 
a ground-up reimagining of everything that defines a 
business, tapping into the possibilities represented by 
digital connections between the people, devices, and 
systems that make up our world. 
A natural outcome for companies that design customer-first 
products and processes and effectively transform into 
1 “CEO challenge 2014.” The Conference Board. January 9, 2014. 
2 Aron, Dave, and Graham P. Walker. Taming the digital dragon: the 2014 CIO agenda. Gartner, Inc. December 31, 2013.
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What’s on the mind of enterprise leaders in 2014? 
digital businesses is that they become more responsive. 
As the flow of information increases, companies can gain 
competitive advantages by shifting focus from efficiency 
to their ability to learn and respond rapidly to new 
information. IDC describes this as a shift from “make-sell” 
to “sense-and-respond”:2 essentially, tapping into the 
wealth of customer data in real time to drive business 
decisions and strategy. 
Data, or perhaps more accurately the connected 
systems that bring data together, are at the heart of it 
all: personalized customer experiences, empowered 
workforces, responsive service, and the overarching 
transition to the digital business. But with the trillions of 
digital connections now possible, where should a business 
start? The opportunity—and the challenge—can seem 
overwhelmingly complex, but it doesn’t need to be. This 
is not a futuristic, aspirational technology trend. It’s here 
today, in the devices, sensors, cloud infrastructure, and 
data and business intelligence tools that you already 
use. The key is to think about how one piece of data can 
provide value to your business, rather than about the 
massive amount of data being produced. It’s to take 
advantage of the systems you have in place already, 
building on your investments to easily create one truly 
flexible intelligent system. 
Microsoft delivers the most integrated approach, 
allowing enterprises to capitalize on these connections 
by gathering, storing, and processing data—from PCs, 
tablets, and mobile devices, to developer tools and back-end 
systems and services, to a diverse partner ecosystem. 
Read on to learn more about our vision for reimagining 
enterprises in this digital age. 
Delighting the modern, connected consumer 
For the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic games, NBC Sports published and 
streamed all 98 events to more than 100 million viewers. Recognizing 
that in today’s world, people want immediate access from virtually 
anywhere, they made digital “business as usual.” They supported 
streaming to practically any device, tapping into the power of the cloud 
to deliver more than 6,000 hours of high-definition live and on-demand 
streaming from five broadcasters across 22 countries on four continents. 
2 “Worldwide CIO agenda 2014 top 10 predictions.” IDC. Doc # 244647. December 2013.
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Fostering a culture of 
business innovation 
For leading companies, innovation is no longer a 
responsibility that lies only within research and development, 
but one that pervades the organization. In the digital age, 
technology has become the great equalizer—giving 
voice to customers, partners, and employees and 
enabling businesses to listen and become more responsive 
to needs and opportunities. No function is untouched— 
digitization means democratization of ideas, of insight, of 
innovation. Consider the opportunities that this new era is 
creating for four key functions in every business: 
ffMarketing 
ff Finance 
ffHuman resources 
ff Sales
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2015 
50.5% 
Investments 
in digital 
marketing 
2012 
26.5% 2x 
increase 
15% 
of Global 1000 organizations 
have customer engagement 
initiatives underway 
Uniting insights to drive customer satisfaction 
Marketers at Great Western Bank used data insights to get a 360-degree view of their customers. 
To gain insights into customer needs, Great Western Bank analyzed customers’ online behavior 
and compared that activity with the products those customers used. These analytics enabled 
Great Western Bank to determine their customers’ satisfaction level with products and assess 
additional products or features to further improve customer experience. As a result, the bank 
developed a reliable system for anticipating current customer needs and 
predicting the future behaviors of potential customers, while identifying 
which activities increased the bottom line. 
Marketing 
The influence of changing customer expectations is seen perhaps most 
significantly in the marketing organization. The brand-centric approach of 
yesterday is quickly being replaced by customer-driven everything, where 
customers are dictating the style, quantity, and mediums that marketers must 
use to reach them and win their business and loyalty. Marketers are searching for 
devices and services to transform their business into one that activates around 
the customer and empowers people to be responsive to customer needs. 
For the modern marketer, this means: 
ff Bringing the customer into focus. Connecting with customers on a 
personal level is critical to delivering the right marketing messages to 
audiences. By uniting customer information from multiple channels, today’s 
marketers can create a single view into each customer’s journey. Self-service 
tools and dashboards are helping them cost-effectively analyze individual behaviors and marketing insights in real 
time to discover what uniquely motivates customers. Predictive analytics and modeling services help anticipate 
customer needs and proactively respond to them. 
ff Creating amazing campaigns with real impact. To build a 
customer-responsive organization, marketing operations must 
work together effortlessly. Marketing teams need to be able to 
connect and collaborate from anywhere to increase marketing 
creativity and efficiency. A mobile-first, cloud-first environment is 
also helping marketers speed up campaign creation and quickly 
deliver advertising that resonates. 
ff Being in the moments that matter. In marketing today, reaching the customer with the right message at the right 
time is more important than ever. Every second counts. High-engagement advertising, coupled with robust targeting, 
is helping marketers today to reach their audiences at work, at home, on-the-go, and at play. Being in the moment 
means bringing advertising to life across platforms, devices, and applications. 
ff Innovating along the journey. To transform customers into loyal brand advocates, marketers need to deliver 
immersive, social experiences that make customer needs and interests the top priority. Marketers are using connected 
marketing solutions to tune marketing campaigns for maximum customer engagement. Customer relationship 
management tools are helping them deliver rich, social experiences. By connecting with customers across both 
physical and digital worlds, they are delivering experiences that are bigger, more immersive, and more rewarding.
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Finance 
The role of the CFO or finance leader is changing. Today’s finance executives are 
increasingly focused on how they can also be IT and operational leaders. Their goal? To 
capitalize on today’s technology tools to address business challenges and stay ahead of 
the competition. At Microsoft, we see our finance customers identifying four areas in which 
technology can help them reimagine finance operations: 
ff Converting data into visual insights in minutes. With familiar tools that can 
39% 
of IT organizations 
now report to 
the CFO 
pull together data from a range of sources and make short work of data analysis, finance teams are moving from 
“controllership” to “stewardship.” They are empowering their people with data visualization tools that they can access 
from anywhere and use collaboratively to drive corporate performance. They’re growing revenue with the ability to 
evaluate and respond to market opportunities in real time by mashing up internal data with external data. 
ff Assessing and controlling risk. The massive 
amounts of corporate and customer data 
available to finance executives delivers great 
opportunity if it can be collected and very 
securely accessed digitally from across the 
organization—something the cloud makes 
possible. A unified view into the business 
gives finance executives better visibility into 
organizational risks. Self-service tools that reach 
all employees can help further control risk by 
automating processes. 
1 in 5 
organizations 
ff Driving corporate strategy through greater business agility and efficiency. To compete, companies today need 
a technology platform that allows them to keep up with changing market conditions without the need for major 
capital expenditures every time a new initiative is started. A hybrid cloud solution can provide the flexible platform 
needed to boost corporate agility, while connected enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help finance manage 
complexity and streamline processes. 
ff Accelerating a culture of innovation and collaboration. In finance and across the company, results require 
collaboration. Finance leaders are adopting technologies that let their people cost-effectively connect and 
collaborate from anywhere—with the high security required in the world of finance. 
Drive corporate strategy with a connected workforce 
Manhattan Associates was looking to build a culture of innovation and collaboration. Enterprise 
social networking provided the means for people and regions to connect, foster diverse ideas, 
and build effective cross-functional relationships. As Dennis Story, Executive VP & CFO of 
Manhattan Associates (Atlanta, GA), put it, “it’s changing our culture and making it a whole lot 
easier to solve our clients’ complex problems. It has the 
greatest utility and usability of any application in our 
enterprise.” 
plan to use cloud 
for analytics and 
transactions in the 
next two years
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Human resources 
Technology alone won’t drive innovation. It’s the backbone to another critical 
ingredient: employee enablement. To stay agile and competitive in today’s fast-paced 
digital world, businesses need to breed innovative thinking and creativity into 
the culture of the business and make it part of every employee’s mandate. HR should 
be a key strategic partner in fostering that culture of innovation and be a leader in 
digital transformation. At Microsoft, we see three key opportunities for today’s HR 
organization: 
ff Driving business impact through real-time insights. HR can use both 
= Top HR priority: Fostering 
innovation in the workforce 
internal and external data to drive results. When HR leaders are able to get the 
right data at the right time, they can transform workforce data into actionable 
insights and improve results across the organization. By uniting internal and external data, they can get a unified view 
of the business and the industry at large and use that information to boost talent acquisition and retention. 
ff Engaging employees with a responsive culture. Today’s employees want to work from pretty much anywhere, 
anytime. HR organizations that take advantage of emerging mobile and social capabilities to meet their changing 
expectations can help the workforce feel connected. At the same time, they can improve HR’s own reach and make 
change management easier. 
ff Accelerating productivity through digital 
innovation. What does this look like? Providing 
familiar, consistent devices and services to 
employees to help them stay productive on the 
go. Delivering personalized information and 
training that puts the information employees 
need at their fingertips. And centralizing human 
capital management to make sure that you are 
getting the most from your workforce without 
wasted effort. 
90% 
of CHROs feel there is 
need for HR to use data 
and analytics 
Aligning employees to succeed as one 
Toyota wanted to create a workplace of the future. By using 
technology to bring disparate silos of the company together 
as “One Toyota”—achieved by deploying cloud productivity 
software, upgraded PCs, and mobile devices—Toyota improved 
efficiency and productivity throughout the company. They 
created a single platform to provide employees with all the 
information they need to work in real time.
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Sales 
The way people buy has fundamentally changed. Today’s customers are 
better informed than ever. They are connected from everywhere and 
anywhere through their mobile devices—plugged into their social network 
and doing their own research. 
What does this mean for sales teams? Sales professionals need to adapt to 
this new world. They need to embrace mobile tools and social platforms while 
taking advantage of the wealth of customer and market data now available 
to enhance the customer selling experience. In particular, they need to invest 
time where it counts—with the customer. They must understand each 
customer’s unrecognized needs, not just sell stock “solutions.” 
Microsoft sees two priorities for sales teams today: 
ff Improving sales force effectiveness. Winning in sales today 
means maximizing responsiveness by reaching customers where, 
when, and how they want. To offer customers the most targeted 
experience and make every customer conversation more relevant, 
valuable, and productive, sales professionals need real-time 
access to customer insights. They also need to work like a network 
to stay as agile as possible. Industry-leading productivity tools 
that they can access from their smartphone or tablet can help 
them stay connected while making it easy to share best practices 
across their team. 
Customers are 70% 
through the buying process 
before they talk to sales people 
73% 
of sales people using social 
media to sell outperform 
those who don’t 
ff Making faster, smarter sales decisions. A unified view of actionable customer information can help sales 
professionals keep a pulse on customer account health and make the entire customer journey engaging, impactful, 
and seamless. It can help them focus on advancing the best leads while personalizing every customer interaction for 
smarter selling. The combination of better customer insights and access to the right people, information, and content 
empowers sales professionals to turn insight into closed deals and revenue. 
Building a one-stop shop for customer data 
Trek Bicycle knows that it can take years for a new sales rep to rebuild rapport with local bike 
shops. The company rolled out a new cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) 
solution combined with enterprise social networking to give their distributors, retailers, and 
sales reps a complete view into customer information and enable sellers 
to easily communicate and collaborate with colleagues. In their words, “All 
of a sudden, it was like, BOOM—all of this information is all in the open, 
transparent, things were getting done because everyone had a new kind 
of awareness.”
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Marketing 
Finance 
Human 
resources 
Sales 
A culture of business 
innovation requires a 
modern technology 
platform 
IT leadership 
From concept to 
business results... ...in <90 days 
Nedbank, a leading South 
African bank, shows what’s possible when a business is 
able to tap into a modern technology platform to deliver 
results quickly. Nedbank worked with Microsoft to revolutionize 
the customer experience. They launched an integrated channel sales strategy focused 
on client-centered banking, the pinnacle of which involved creating a video banking channel 
built on their existing communications and collaboration platform. Within two weeks, nearly 
40 percent of branch inquiries shifted from branch to video banking. With this new channel, 
Nedbank is providing customers with a more convenient, personal way to reach the bank, 
while delivering a consistent, seamless customer experience.
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Building a technology 
platform for the future 
The consistent theme that ties virtually every 
business function across the enterprise together 
is the significant role that technology plays as a 
competitive differentiator. No longer does a single 
IT solution represent a silver bullet. Selecting a 
specific technology for a specific purpose provides 
limited long-term advantage and may ultimately be 
a disadvantage if it doesn’t integrate well with future 
investments. Platform choice has become the 
true enabler of business agility and speed. 
It’s about taking a strategic approach to 
connecting enterprise technology and 
enabling the seamless flow of 
data around the business.
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Devices & 
mobility 
Transcend time, place, context, and device 
At Microsoft, we believe that the next wave in enterprise 
mobile will be about enabling a fluid, seamless mobile 
experience for users. “Going mobile” is no longer about 
carrying a single mobile 
device. It now means that 
any user can pick up any 
device in the context of 
what they are doing and 
have instant access to all 
of their “stuff”—settings, 
data, and applications 
that follow the user and 
flow seamlessly from 
device to device. 
Our aim is to help 
you transcend time, 
place, context, and 
device. For your people, this means empowering teams 
to be productive anytime, anywhere. Untethering 
your workforce can help you become more agile as an 
organization, enabling people to collaborate with each 
other from anywhere and at any time—without the need 
for or cost of travel—and speeding decision making. 
Smart, connected devices can provide real-time, anywhere 
access to business tools and information. Proactive, 
strategic enterprise solutions can also boost agility 
and protect valuable information. 
Forward thinking leaders are also employing mobile 
strategies to build new products and services, 
connect with customers in new ways, and respond 
faster to changing market conditions. Delighting 
customers with smart, contextual, helpful mobile 
experiences can help you engage customers 
and create loyal advocates. Whether through 
a compelling B2C mobile app, equipping a bank teller 
with a tablet that enables them to step out from behind 
the counter to be more engaged with the customer, or 
enabling a field seller to deliver exceptional real-time 
service when with a customer, mobile can help you deliver 
experiences that people want. 
>75% 
of office workers say they work at 
least occasionally on weekends or 
outside of normal business hours 
>1 in 2 office workers 
say they are now expected 
to be available no matter 
what time it is
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Cloud productivity 
& enterprise social 
What if you were able to tap into the people, 
conversations, and knowledge you need—no matter 
where they reside—to make better decisions and move 
the business faster? What if you and every person in 
your company could work together like a network? 
Suddenly, you’re plugged in to everything that matters 
to your business. You’re social and collaborating in new 
ways, exchanging ideas with people across the globe. 
At Microsoft, our vision for cloud productivity and 
enterprise social is to connect individuals to a dynamic 
network of people and information, enabling seamless 
new ways to discover, share, and work together across 
the familiar applications they already use and love— 
with an enterprise-grade platform, so you don’t have to 
worry about compliance and security. With this kind of a 
modern workplace, you can be wherever your employees, 
customers, and partners are, so you can listen to and learn 
from their changing needs. When social technology is 
woven into your day-to-day tools and process, it can also 
help you adapt and make smarter decisions based on 
the needs of your customers, partners, and employees, 
helping you quickly adapt to change. It enables teams to 
self-organize, focus, and collaborate more efficiently—and 
smart decisions and better collaboration inevitably lead to 
business growth. 90% 
report measurable benefits 
from the use of social 
technologies 
You’re always listening to your employees, partners, and 
customers. You spot new opportunities and make change 
happen. You share documents and information in real time 
and make decisions faster than ever. When you’re working 
together as one connected network, you can grow your 
business. You understand your customers. You build better 
products. And you deliver the best experiences. 
Employees at 63% 
of companies can 
access enterprise social 
from a mobile device 
Work like a network
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data and analytics platform—one that grows with your 
needs and meets all the necessary security, privacy, and 
regulatory requirements of your industry. 
This kind of data platform can help your organization 
make smarter, faster, data-driven decisions. How? It can 
give your organization the tools to discover, explore, and 
combine any data, no matter the size, type, or location— 
inside the walls of your business, in public data sources, 
or on the web. It can give everyone in your organization 
the tools to easily visualize and analyze data to make 
better, more informed decisions faster, without 
extensive additional training. And it makes it easy 
to quickly share insights across the enterprise 
and use it to decide—in partnership with your 
colleagues—how to move forward based on 
your findings. 
Business 
insights 
In the emerging “data economy,” companies will compete 
on how they use data. We believe that any data has the 
capability to deliver significant business value—whether 
it’s big data or small, structured or unstructured, streaming 
or stored. 
At Microsoft, our vision for the data-driven enterprise 
is to empower everyone by delivering a complete data 
platform. With comprehensive, connected, and easy-to-use 
analytics tools, people in your business can make 
smart, insightful decisions more quickly. By 
giving people the power to share insights and 
discover them anywhere, your organization 
can be more responsive to market changes 
and customer needs and stay ahead of the 
competition. However, this can’t be done 
without a complete, flexible, enterprise-grade 
42% 
of businesses are 
developing new 
products and business 
models using big data 
23% 
are monetizing 
information directly 
Deliver greater business value
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The cloud can help you comprehensively address business 
needs, both for IT at the foundation and for your business 
functions. For IT, you gain cost advantages—you can 
shift capital expenses to operating expenses for budget 
predictability, free up capital for strategic investments, 
and align costs with when you start to realize benefits 
from your IT initiatives. You also gain instant scalability 
for a more responsive IT backbone to the business. Your 
developers can develop and test applications more 
quickly, as they won’t face delays to build a development 
environment. And greater efficiency overall means less 
burden on your IT staff. 
For business, the opportunities are nearly endless. 
You have the opportunity to reimagine the customer 
experience and deliver 
more personalized 
experiences and 
services. To open up 
new channels to reach 
new customers. To 
boost productivity with 
no limit on when and 
where your employees 
can access productivity 
tools, business data, 
and communications 
capabilities. To create 
or enter new markets 
Cloud 
platform 
by reimagining your existing products and services and 
coming up with digital alternatives. To get those products 
and services to market more quickly. And to rethink and 
redesign business processes for greater efficiency. 
>50% 
Microsoft provides a hybrid infrastructure that’s designed 
to reduce complexity while enabling you to move to the 
cloud at your own speed. You can build a software-defined 
foundation to help reduce complexity and cost by pooling 
resources for storage, networking, and compute. Unified 
and simplified management across your datacenter 
and the cloud will help you automate and secure your 
infrastructure. You can also extend to the cloud on demand 
to scale your infrastructure, while keeping costs low. 
of CIOs 
55% 
indicated they 
would source 
all their critical 
apps in the 
cloud by 2020 
Majority of CIOs expect 
of their company's business to be 
running over public cloud by 2020 
Get global-grade scalability
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Developing your 
enterprise strategy 
Today’s businesses don’t have the luxury of extended project timelines 
for technology initiatives. A successful enterprise strategy is one that 
permits rapid evaluation and implementation, without compromising 
on due diligence. You need to act fast—but with the technology 
landscape more complicated than ever, how? 
Optimal impact occurs at the intersection 
At Microsoft, our field sales and delivery teams provide advisory 
services by working with enterprise customers to find new and better 
of three core competencies 
ways to apply technology for business advantage. Our Microsoft 
Services Enterprise Strategy Program (ESP) team also engages with 
customers to help them realize the full potential of their investments 
in the Microsoft portfolio and to accelerate technology adoption and 
Business 
Technology 
usage. Through these engagements across many domains, industries, 
Making money and 
How technology works 
being successful, 
and enables the 
and geographies around the world, we’ve developed a multidiscipline 
doing things 
business process 
better and in 
and experience 
approach built on extensive knowledge and experience. Applying 
new ways 
Value 
this approach to your own business, you can accelerate business 
creation 
performance by identifying the most innovative and productive uses 
of technology. 
Experience 
A structured approach to reimagining 
Researching, synthesizing, and 
creating unique and compelling 
your enterprise 
insights and user experiences 
that competitively 
differentiate 
ESP uses a rapid, iterative approach to helping businesses reimagine 
their enterprise through the intelligent use of technology to gain a 
business performance improvement. This approach helps spread risk across the lifecycle of a digital product or service— 
from conception to creation—to increase the likelihood of achieving breakthrough potential. This structured and practical 
five-step approach is focused on accelerating time to value and delivering outcome-based solutions. 
Based on the five-step approach used by the ESP team, the following list of suggested activities provides ideas on how 
your senior leadership team can reimagine your enterprise in the digital age. How you define value will be specific 
to your business, whether your goal is to grow revenue, streamline operations, optimize assets, enhance employee 
productivity, or accelerate time to value. With a repeatable structure, this process is designed to generate solutions based 
on outcomes—rapidly. And just as importantly, it can help you to integrate the four components of a modern technology 
platform: devices and mobility, cloud productivity and enterprise social, business insights, and cloud platform.
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1 Research 
The first step is about conducting qualitative and 
quantitative research and analysis—using techniques 
such as anonymous studies, heuristics, scenario planning, 
and environmental analysis. It’s about understanding and 
documenting what your organization has done so far 
and what ideas and processes it’s currently investing in. 
It’s important to consider every situation from all angles: 
who the people are, what they want to become, what 
stories they are telling today, and what they want to be 
saying in the future. 
„„ Engage employees, customers, and partners in multi-disciplinary 
research. 
„„ Evaluate what the competition is doing. 
„„ Analyze the marketplace. 
„„ Determine relevant trends. 
„„ Identify key pain points and value drivers. 
„„ Use relevant strategic models, where appropriate, to 
frame the context, potential tactics, and alternatives. 
2 Envision 
The second step is about envisioning the potential. 
„„ Generate ideas, by asking questions such as “what 
if…?”, “How could we…?”, and “Wouldn’t it be 
incredible if…?” 
„„ Apply scenario-planning techniques to help build the 
target state and identify events that are likely to have 
an impact on your organization and what you want to 
do. 
„„ Identify underlying assumptions to develop potential 
solutions to your business problems or unlock new 
business opportunities. 
„„ Determine priorities that align to each scenario 
and key performance indicators (KPIs) that your 
organization currently has in place and wants to 
improve or wants to implement. 
„„ Validate and compare your organization’s capabilities 
with industry-proven practices. Identify people, 
process, and technology capability improvements and 
anticipated business benefits. 
„„ Uncover new opportunities for immediate, near-term, 
or longer-term value creation. 
3 Design 
During the design step, the goal is to design the solution 
from business, technology, and experience perspectives 
in parallel. Designing from all three of these perspectives 
simultaneously can help you realize sustainable 
breakthroughs. 
„„ Formulate strategic direction by determining the 
right performance levers and key tactics. Set strategic 
vision and direction based on your business goals and 
success factors. 
„„ Develop the building blocks to get to the desired 
state—the key people, process, and technology 
capability changes that are required for the target 
vision. 
„„ Create a structured plan outlining the required 
activities to execute the strategy, including business-justified 
investments, key tactics required to 
implement the improvements, recommendations, and 
a roadmap. 
4 Prototype 
The fourth step is one of experimentation. The end goal 
is to deeply understand your organization’s current 
challenges and opportunities, the barriers to change 
within it, and how you can realize the current and future 
potential locked up in your business. 
„„ Rapidly prototype the technology-enabled solution. 
„„ Determine the commercial viability and business 
feasibility, while exploring the end-to-end experience. 
„„ Determine what works and what doesn’t work, prove 
the potential, demonstrate the vision, and begin to 
plan for change. 
5 Industrialize 
And finally, it is time to bring the solution to market— 
effectively and profitably. 
„„ Adopt and operationalize the strategy. 
„„ Monitor the strategy with KPIs, critical success factors 
(CSFs), and any other significant criteria. 
„„ Establish the right governance to manage and monitor 
performance, tracking, and value realization. 
„„ Provide the oversight to help drive effective change 
and organizational adoption and usage of the solution.
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Summary and additional resources 
Organizations that understand their customers’ real needs are in the best position to consistently deliver value. Customer 
knowledge is key to removing major service barriers and dramatically improving the experience for customers. With 
digital capabilities that let your employees orchestrate the resources of the organization, they will be able to scale 
customer engagements for even more impact. Furthermore, when you have the means to turn new insight into intention, 
you can significantly improve business performance. By centering your enterprise technology strategy on value, you can 
help ensure that you have an iterative and sustainable approach for consistent delivery and endurable success. 
Microsoft and our partners would be pleased to work with you in your digital transformation. Your Microsoft 
representative can help connect you with the right people and resources. 
Find fresh business 
perspectives 
Explore new ideas, join an event, and connect with 
other enterprise leaders at microsoft.com/enterprise. 
From blogs hosted by Microsoft leaders to areas 
designed for top roles and key industries, you’ll find a 
constant flow of perspectives that can help you shape 
the direction of your own company. 
Explore IT trends and business perspectives at 
microsoft.com/enterprise. 
Work with a 
strategic technology partner 
Microsoft ESP excels at addressing complex business 
challenges through the application of Microsoft 
technologies. Drawing on unparalleled expertise with 
the Microsoft portfolio, ESP practitioners—often 
in partnership with Microsoft partners—can apply 
unique insight and experience to help customers 
improve business performance. They use a proven, 
multi-disciplinary approach for consistent delivery, 
focusing on accelerating business value and 
outcomes-based solutions while supporting successful 
technology-enabled business change. 
Learn more at microsoft.com/goesp 
or contact goesph@microsoft.com.
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An Executive's Guide to Reimagining the Enterprise in the Digital Age

  • 1. 1 An executive’s guide to reimagining the enterprise in the digital age
  • 2. 2 Table of contents Introduction page 3 Fostering a culture of business innovation page 5 Building a technology platform for the future page 11 Developing your enterprise strategy page 16
  • 3. 3 Introduction In today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world, enterprises are reimagining their products, services, and even entire business models. Businesses are exploring what’s possible in an all-digital environment where information and intelligent systems are available anytime, anywhere, on any device. What is behind this change? The mobile-first, cloud-first enterprise In many respects, change is being driven from the outside in. Today’s pervasive use of connected technology has changed customer expectations dramatically. Customers expect answers to their enquiries at any time, from anywhere. They expect to be able to view their information and manage their relationships with businesses in any number of ways and from mobile devices in particular. They expect personalized customer service, wanting to be known and understood whenever they engage with a business. This, in turn, is both forcing companies to provide the experiences that people expect and creating an opportunity to compete in new and different ways. It’s little surprise that enhancing the customer experience has emerged as a top priority for both business and IT executives in enterprises. As The Conference Board reports, “Engaged employees and satisfied customers dominate thinking of CEOs in 2014.”1 The key to meeting—and exceeding—customers’ expectations in this highly competitive technological environment is digital transformation. Transforming to a digital business is now considered a requirement by virtually every enterprise. In fact, Gartner makes a direct connection between digital readiness and future potential business success in the digital age: “the CEO’s digital savvy is one of the best indicators of IT and business performance.”2 The digital business is far more than a rethinking of individual business processes for digital efficiency. It is a ground-up reimagining of everything that defines a business, tapping into the possibilities represented by digital connections between the people, devices, and systems that make up our world. A natural outcome for companies that design customer-first products and processes and effectively transform into 1 “CEO challenge 2014.” The Conference Board. January 9, 2014. 2 Aron, Dave, and Graham P. Walker. Taming the digital dragon: the 2014 CIO agenda. Gartner, Inc. December 31, 2013.
  • 4. 4 What’s on the mind of enterprise leaders in 2014? digital businesses is that they become more responsive. As the flow of information increases, companies can gain competitive advantages by shifting focus from efficiency to their ability to learn and respond rapidly to new information. IDC describes this as a shift from “make-sell” to “sense-and-respond”:2 essentially, tapping into the wealth of customer data in real time to drive business decisions and strategy. Data, or perhaps more accurately the connected systems that bring data together, are at the heart of it all: personalized customer experiences, empowered workforces, responsive service, and the overarching transition to the digital business. But with the trillions of digital connections now possible, where should a business start? The opportunity—and the challenge—can seem overwhelmingly complex, but it doesn’t need to be. This is not a futuristic, aspirational technology trend. It’s here today, in the devices, sensors, cloud infrastructure, and data and business intelligence tools that you already use. The key is to think about how one piece of data can provide value to your business, rather than about the massive amount of data being produced. It’s to take advantage of the systems you have in place already, building on your investments to easily create one truly flexible intelligent system. Microsoft delivers the most integrated approach, allowing enterprises to capitalize on these connections by gathering, storing, and processing data—from PCs, tablets, and mobile devices, to developer tools and back-end systems and services, to a diverse partner ecosystem. Read on to learn more about our vision for reimagining enterprises in this digital age. Delighting the modern, connected consumer For the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic games, NBC Sports published and streamed all 98 events to more than 100 million viewers. Recognizing that in today’s world, people want immediate access from virtually anywhere, they made digital “business as usual.” They supported streaming to practically any device, tapping into the power of the cloud to deliver more than 6,000 hours of high-definition live and on-demand streaming from five broadcasters across 22 countries on four continents. 2 “Worldwide CIO agenda 2014 top 10 predictions.” IDC. Doc # 244647. December 2013.
  • 5. 5 Fostering a culture of business innovation For leading companies, innovation is no longer a responsibility that lies only within research and development, but one that pervades the organization. In the digital age, technology has become the great equalizer—giving voice to customers, partners, and employees and enabling businesses to listen and become more responsive to needs and opportunities. No function is untouched— digitization means democratization of ideas, of insight, of innovation. Consider the opportunities that this new era is creating for four key functions in every business: ffMarketing ff Finance ffHuman resources ff Sales
  • 6. 6 2015 50.5% Investments in digital marketing 2012 26.5% 2x increase 15% of Global 1000 organizations have customer engagement initiatives underway Uniting insights to drive customer satisfaction Marketers at Great Western Bank used data insights to get a 360-degree view of their customers. To gain insights into customer needs, Great Western Bank analyzed customers’ online behavior and compared that activity with the products those customers used. These analytics enabled Great Western Bank to determine their customers’ satisfaction level with products and assess additional products or features to further improve customer experience. As a result, the bank developed a reliable system for anticipating current customer needs and predicting the future behaviors of potential customers, while identifying which activities increased the bottom line. Marketing The influence of changing customer expectations is seen perhaps most significantly in the marketing organization. The brand-centric approach of yesterday is quickly being replaced by customer-driven everything, where customers are dictating the style, quantity, and mediums that marketers must use to reach them and win their business and loyalty. Marketers are searching for devices and services to transform their business into one that activates around the customer and empowers people to be responsive to customer needs. For the modern marketer, this means: ff Bringing the customer into focus. Connecting with customers on a personal level is critical to delivering the right marketing messages to audiences. By uniting customer information from multiple channels, today’s marketers can create a single view into each customer’s journey. Self-service tools and dashboards are helping them cost-effectively analyze individual behaviors and marketing insights in real time to discover what uniquely motivates customers. Predictive analytics and modeling services help anticipate customer needs and proactively respond to them. ff Creating amazing campaigns with real impact. To build a customer-responsive organization, marketing operations must work together effortlessly. Marketing teams need to be able to connect and collaborate from anywhere to increase marketing creativity and efficiency. A mobile-first, cloud-first environment is also helping marketers speed up campaign creation and quickly deliver advertising that resonates. ff Being in the moments that matter. In marketing today, reaching the customer with the right message at the right time is more important than ever. Every second counts. High-engagement advertising, coupled with robust targeting, is helping marketers today to reach their audiences at work, at home, on-the-go, and at play. Being in the moment means bringing advertising to life across platforms, devices, and applications. ff Innovating along the journey. To transform customers into loyal brand advocates, marketers need to deliver immersive, social experiences that make customer needs and interests the top priority. Marketers are using connected marketing solutions to tune marketing campaigns for maximum customer engagement. Customer relationship management tools are helping them deliver rich, social experiences. By connecting with customers across both physical and digital worlds, they are delivering experiences that are bigger, more immersive, and more rewarding.
  • 7. 7 Finance The role of the CFO or finance leader is changing. Today’s finance executives are increasingly focused on how they can also be IT and operational leaders. Their goal? To capitalize on today’s technology tools to address business challenges and stay ahead of the competition. At Microsoft, we see our finance customers identifying four areas in which technology can help them reimagine finance operations: ff Converting data into visual insights in minutes. With familiar tools that can 39% of IT organizations now report to the CFO pull together data from a range of sources and make short work of data analysis, finance teams are moving from “controllership” to “stewardship.” They are empowering their people with data visualization tools that they can access from anywhere and use collaboratively to drive corporate performance. They’re growing revenue with the ability to evaluate and respond to market opportunities in real time by mashing up internal data with external data. ff Assessing and controlling risk. The massive amounts of corporate and customer data available to finance executives delivers great opportunity if it can be collected and very securely accessed digitally from across the organization—something the cloud makes possible. A unified view into the business gives finance executives better visibility into organizational risks. Self-service tools that reach all employees can help further control risk by automating processes. 1 in 5 organizations ff Driving corporate strategy through greater business agility and efficiency. To compete, companies today need a technology platform that allows them to keep up with changing market conditions without the need for major capital expenditures every time a new initiative is started. A hybrid cloud solution can provide the flexible platform needed to boost corporate agility, while connected enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help finance manage complexity and streamline processes. ff Accelerating a culture of innovation and collaboration. In finance and across the company, results require collaboration. Finance leaders are adopting technologies that let their people cost-effectively connect and collaborate from anywhere—with the high security required in the world of finance. Drive corporate strategy with a connected workforce Manhattan Associates was looking to build a culture of innovation and collaboration. Enterprise social networking provided the means for people and regions to connect, foster diverse ideas, and build effective cross-functional relationships. As Dennis Story, Executive VP & CFO of Manhattan Associates (Atlanta, GA), put it, “it’s changing our culture and making it a whole lot easier to solve our clients’ complex problems. It has the greatest utility and usability of any application in our enterprise.” plan to use cloud for analytics and transactions in the next two years
  • 8. 8 Human resources Technology alone won’t drive innovation. It’s the backbone to another critical ingredient: employee enablement. To stay agile and competitive in today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses need to breed innovative thinking and creativity into the culture of the business and make it part of every employee’s mandate. HR should be a key strategic partner in fostering that culture of innovation and be a leader in digital transformation. At Microsoft, we see three key opportunities for today’s HR organization: ff Driving business impact through real-time insights. HR can use both = Top HR priority: Fostering innovation in the workforce internal and external data to drive results. When HR leaders are able to get the right data at the right time, they can transform workforce data into actionable insights and improve results across the organization. By uniting internal and external data, they can get a unified view of the business and the industry at large and use that information to boost talent acquisition and retention. ff Engaging employees with a responsive culture. Today’s employees want to work from pretty much anywhere, anytime. HR organizations that take advantage of emerging mobile and social capabilities to meet their changing expectations can help the workforce feel connected. At the same time, they can improve HR’s own reach and make change management easier. ff Accelerating productivity through digital innovation. What does this look like? Providing familiar, consistent devices and services to employees to help them stay productive on the go. Delivering personalized information and training that puts the information employees need at their fingertips. And centralizing human capital management to make sure that you are getting the most from your workforce without wasted effort. 90% of CHROs feel there is need for HR to use data and analytics Aligning employees to succeed as one Toyota wanted to create a workplace of the future. By using technology to bring disparate silos of the company together as “One Toyota”—achieved by deploying cloud productivity software, upgraded PCs, and mobile devices—Toyota improved efficiency and productivity throughout the company. They created a single platform to provide employees with all the information they need to work in real time.
  • 9. 9 Sales The way people buy has fundamentally changed. Today’s customers are better informed than ever. They are connected from everywhere and anywhere through their mobile devices—plugged into their social network and doing their own research. What does this mean for sales teams? Sales professionals need to adapt to this new world. They need to embrace mobile tools and social platforms while taking advantage of the wealth of customer and market data now available to enhance the customer selling experience. In particular, they need to invest time where it counts—with the customer. They must understand each customer’s unrecognized needs, not just sell stock “solutions.” Microsoft sees two priorities for sales teams today: ff Improving sales force effectiveness. Winning in sales today means maximizing responsiveness by reaching customers where, when, and how they want. To offer customers the most targeted experience and make every customer conversation more relevant, valuable, and productive, sales professionals need real-time access to customer insights. They also need to work like a network to stay as agile as possible. Industry-leading productivity tools that they can access from their smartphone or tablet can help them stay connected while making it easy to share best practices across their team. Customers are 70% through the buying process before they talk to sales people 73% of sales people using social media to sell outperform those who don’t ff Making faster, smarter sales decisions. A unified view of actionable customer information can help sales professionals keep a pulse on customer account health and make the entire customer journey engaging, impactful, and seamless. It can help them focus on advancing the best leads while personalizing every customer interaction for smarter selling. The combination of better customer insights and access to the right people, information, and content empowers sales professionals to turn insight into closed deals and revenue. Building a one-stop shop for customer data Trek Bicycle knows that it can take years for a new sales rep to rebuild rapport with local bike shops. The company rolled out a new cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution combined with enterprise social networking to give their distributors, retailers, and sales reps a complete view into customer information and enable sellers to easily communicate and collaborate with colleagues. In their words, “All of a sudden, it was like, BOOM—all of this information is all in the open, transparent, things were getting done because everyone had a new kind of awareness.”
  • 10. 10 Marketing Finance Human resources Sales A culture of business innovation requires a modern technology platform IT leadership From concept to business results... ...in <90 days Nedbank, a leading South African bank, shows what’s possible when a business is able to tap into a modern technology platform to deliver results quickly. Nedbank worked with Microsoft to revolutionize the customer experience. They launched an integrated channel sales strategy focused on client-centered banking, the pinnacle of which involved creating a video banking channel built on their existing communications and collaboration platform. Within two weeks, nearly 40 percent of branch inquiries shifted from branch to video banking. With this new channel, Nedbank is providing customers with a more convenient, personal way to reach the bank, while delivering a consistent, seamless customer experience.
  • 11. 11 Building a technology platform for the future The consistent theme that ties virtually every business function across the enterprise together is the significant role that technology plays as a competitive differentiator. No longer does a single IT solution represent a silver bullet. Selecting a specific technology for a specific purpose provides limited long-term advantage and may ultimately be a disadvantage if it doesn’t integrate well with future investments. Platform choice has become the true enabler of business agility and speed. It’s about taking a strategic approach to connecting enterprise technology and enabling the seamless flow of data around the business.
  • 12. 12 Devices & mobility Transcend time, place, context, and device At Microsoft, we believe that the next wave in enterprise mobile will be about enabling a fluid, seamless mobile experience for users. “Going mobile” is no longer about carrying a single mobile device. It now means that any user can pick up any device in the context of what they are doing and have instant access to all of their “stuff”—settings, data, and applications that follow the user and flow seamlessly from device to device. Our aim is to help you transcend time, place, context, and device. For your people, this means empowering teams to be productive anytime, anywhere. Untethering your workforce can help you become more agile as an organization, enabling people to collaborate with each other from anywhere and at any time—without the need for or cost of travel—and speeding decision making. Smart, connected devices can provide real-time, anywhere access to business tools and information. Proactive, strategic enterprise solutions can also boost agility and protect valuable information. Forward thinking leaders are also employing mobile strategies to build new products and services, connect with customers in new ways, and respond faster to changing market conditions. Delighting customers with smart, contextual, helpful mobile experiences can help you engage customers and create loyal advocates. Whether through a compelling B2C mobile app, equipping a bank teller with a tablet that enables them to step out from behind the counter to be more engaged with the customer, or enabling a field seller to deliver exceptional real-time service when with a customer, mobile can help you deliver experiences that people want. >75% of office workers say they work at least occasionally on weekends or outside of normal business hours >1 in 2 office workers say they are now expected to be available no matter what time it is
  • 13. 13 Cloud productivity & enterprise social What if you were able to tap into the people, conversations, and knowledge you need—no matter where they reside—to make better decisions and move the business faster? What if you and every person in your company could work together like a network? Suddenly, you’re plugged in to everything that matters to your business. You’re social and collaborating in new ways, exchanging ideas with people across the globe. At Microsoft, our vision for cloud productivity and enterprise social is to connect individuals to a dynamic network of people and information, enabling seamless new ways to discover, share, and work together across the familiar applications they already use and love— with an enterprise-grade platform, so you don’t have to worry about compliance and security. With this kind of a modern workplace, you can be wherever your employees, customers, and partners are, so you can listen to and learn from their changing needs. When social technology is woven into your day-to-day tools and process, it can also help you adapt and make smarter decisions based on the needs of your customers, partners, and employees, helping you quickly adapt to change. It enables teams to self-organize, focus, and collaborate more efficiently—and smart decisions and better collaboration inevitably lead to business growth. 90% report measurable benefits from the use of social technologies You’re always listening to your employees, partners, and customers. You spot new opportunities and make change happen. You share documents and information in real time and make decisions faster than ever. When you’re working together as one connected network, you can grow your business. You understand your customers. You build better products. And you deliver the best experiences. Employees at 63% of companies can access enterprise social from a mobile device Work like a network
  • 14. 14 data and analytics platform—one that grows with your needs and meets all the necessary security, privacy, and regulatory requirements of your industry. This kind of data platform can help your organization make smarter, faster, data-driven decisions. How? It can give your organization the tools to discover, explore, and combine any data, no matter the size, type, or location— inside the walls of your business, in public data sources, or on the web. It can give everyone in your organization the tools to easily visualize and analyze data to make better, more informed decisions faster, without extensive additional training. And it makes it easy to quickly share insights across the enterprise and use it to decide—in partnership with your colleagues—how to move forward based on your findings. Business insights In the emerging “data economy,” companies will compete on how they use data. We believe that any data has the capability to deliver significant business value—whether it’s big data or small, structured or unstructured, streaming or stored. At Microsoft, our vision for the data-driven enterprise is to empower everyone by delivering a complete data platform. With comprehensive, connected, and easy-to-use analytics tools, people in your business can make smart, insightful decisions more quickly. By giving people the power to share insights and discover them anywhere, your organization can be more responsive to market changes and customer needs and stay ahead of the competition. However, this can’t be done without a complete, flexible, enterprise-grade 42% of businesses are developing new products and business models using big data 23% are monetizing information directly Deliver greater business value
  • 15. 15 The cloud can help you comprehensively address business needs, both for IT at the foundation and for your business functions. For IT, you gain cost advantages—you can shift capital expenses to operating expenses for budget predictability, free up capital for strategic investments, and align costs with when you start to realize benefits from your IT initiatives. You also gain instant scalability for a more responsive IT backbone to the business. Your developers can develop and test applications more quickly, as they won’t face delays to build a development environment. And greater efficiency overall means less burden on your IT staff. For business, the opportunities are nearly endless. You have the opportunity to reimagine the customer experience and deliver more personalized experiences and services. To open up new channels to reach new customers. To boost productivity with no limit on when and where your employees can access productivity tools, business data, and communications capabilities. To create or enter new markets Cloud platform by reimagining your existing products and services and coming up with digital alternatives. To get those products and services to market more quickly. And to rethink and redesign business processes for greater efficiency. >50% Microsoft provides a hybrid infrastructure that’s designed to reduce complexity while enabling you to move to the cloud at your own speed. You can build a software-defined foundation to help reduce complexity and cost by pooling resources for storage, networking, and compute. Unified and simplified management across your datacenter and the cloud will help you automate and secure your infrastructure. You can also extend to the cloud on demand to scale your infrastructure, while keeping costs low. of CIOs 55% indicated they would source all their critical apps in the cloud by 2020 Majority of CIOs expect of their company's business to be running over public cloud by 2020 Get global-grade scalability
  • 16. 16 Developing your enterprise strategy Today’s businesses don’t have the luxury of extended project timelines for technology initiatives. A successful enterprise strategy is one that permits rapid evaluation and implementation, without compromising on due diligence. You need to act fast—but with the technology landscape more complicated than ever, how? Optimal impact occurs at the intersection At Microsoft, our field sales and delivery teams provide advisory services by working with enterprise customers to find new and better of three core competencies ways to apply technology for business advantage. Our Microsoft Services Enterprise Strategy Program (ESP) team also engages with customers to help them realize the full potential of their investments in the Microsoft portfolio and to accelerate technology adoption and Business Technology usage. Through these engagements across many domains, industries, Making money and How technology works being successful, and enables the and geographies around the world, we’ve developed a multidiscipline doing things business process better and in and experience approach built on extensive knowledge and experience. Applying new ways Value this approach to your own business, you can accelerate business creation performance by identifying the most innovative and productive uses of technology. Experience A structured approach to reimagining Researching, synthesizing, and creating unique and compelling your enterprise insights and user experiences that competitively differentiate ESP uses a rapid, iterative approach to helping businesses reimagine their enterprise through the intelligent use of technology to gain a business performance improvement. This approach helps spread risk across the lifecycle of a digital product or service— from conception to creation—to increase the likelihood of achieving breakthrough potential. This structured and practical five-step approach is focused on accelerating time to value and delivering outcome-based solutions. Based on the five-step approach used by the ESP team, the following list of suggested activities provides ideas on how your senior leadership team can reimagine your enterprise in the digital age. How you define value will be specific to your business, whether your goal is to grow revenue, streamline operations, optimize assets, enhance employee productivity, or accelerate time to value. With a repeatable structure, this process is designed to generate solutions based on outcomes—rapidly. And just as importantly, it can help you to integrate the four components of a modern technology platform: devices and mobility, cloud productivity and enterprise social, business insights, and cloud platform.
  • 17. 17 1 Research The first step is about conducting qualitative and quantitative research and analysis—using techniques such as anonymous studies, heuristics, scenario planning, and environmental analysis. It’s about understanding and documenting what your organization has done so far and what ideas and processes it’s currently investing in. It’s important to consider every situation from all angles: who the people are, what they want to become, what stories they are telling today, and what they want to be saying in the future. „„ Engage employees, customers, and partners in multi-disciplinary research. „„ Evaluate what the competition is doing. „„ Analyze the marketplace. „„ Determine relevant trends. „„ Identify key pain points and value drivers. „„ Use relevant strategic models, where appropriate, to frame the context, potential tactics, and alternatives. 2 Envision The second step is about envisioning the potential. „„ Generate ideas, by asking questions such as “what if…?”, “How could we…?”, and “Wouldn’t it be incredible if…?” „„ Apply scenario-planning techniques to help build the target state and identify events that are likely to have an impact on your organization and what you want to do. „„ Identify underlying assumptions to develop potential solutions to your business problems or unlock new business opportunities. „„ Determine priorities that align to each scenario and key performance indicators (KPIs) that your organization currently has in place and wants to improve or wants to implement. „„ Validate and compare your organization’s capabilities with industry-proven practices. Identify people, process, and technology capability improvements and anticipated business benefits. „„ Uncover new opportunities for immediate, near-term, or longer-term value creation. 3 Design During the design step, the goal is to design the solution from business, technology, and experience perspectives in parallel. Designing from all three of these perspectives simultaneously can help you realize sustainable breakthroughs. „„ Formulate strategic direction by determining the right performance levers and key tactics. Set strategic vision and direction based on your business goals and success factors. „„ Develop the building blocks to get to the desired state—the key people, process, and technology capability changes that are required for the target vision. „„ Create a structured plan outlining the required activities to execute the strategy, including business-justified investments, key tactics required to implement the improvements, recommendations, and a roadmap. 4 Prototype The fourth step is one of experimentation. The end goal is to deeply understand your organization’s current challenges and opportunities, the barriers to change within it, and how you can realize the current and future potential locked up in your business. „„ Rapidly prototype the technology-enabled solution. „„ Determine the commercial viability and business feasibility, while exploring the end-to-end experience. „„ Determine what works and what doesn’t work, prove the potential, demonstrate the vision, and begin to plan for change. 5 Industrialize And finally, it is time to bring the solution to market— effectively and profitably. „„ Adopt and operationalize the strategy. „„ Monitor the strategy with KPIs, critical success factors (CSFs), and any other significant criteria. „„ Establish the right governance to manage and monitor performance, tracking, and value realization. „„ Provide the oversight to help drive effective change and organizational adoption and usage of the solution.
  • 18. 18 Summary and additional resources Organizations that understand their customers’ real needs are in the best position to consistently deliver value. Customer knowledge is key to removing major service barriers and dramatically improving the experience for customers. With digital capabilities that let your employees orchestrate the resources of the organization, they will be able to scale customer engagements for even more impact. Furthermore, when you have the means to turn new insight into intention, you can significantly improve business performance. By centering your enterprise technology strategy on value, you can help ensure that you have an iterative and sustainable approach for consistent delivery and endurable success. Microsoft and our partners would be pleased to work with you in your digital transformation. Your Microsoft representative can help connect you with the right people and resources. Find fresh business perspectives Explore new ideas, join an event, and connect with other enterprise leaders at microsoft.com/enterprise. From blogs hosted by Microsoft leaders to areas designed for top roles and key industries, you’ll find a constant flow of perspectives that can help you shape the direction of your own company. Explore IT trends and business perspectives at microsoft.com/enterprise. Work with a strategic technology partner Microsoft ESP excels at addressing complex business challenges through the application of Microsoft technologies. Drawing on unparalleled expertise with the Microsoft portfolio, ESP practitioners—often in partnership with Microsoft partners—can apply unique insight and experience to help customers improve business performance. They use a proven, multi-disciplinary approach for consistent delivery, focusing on accelerating business value and outcomes-based solutions while supporting successful technology-enabled business change. Learn more at microsoft.com/goesp or contact goesph@microsoft.com.
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