The road to digital transformation requires considerations on various aspects related to cultural, organizational, functional and technology. This presentation identifies the key steps towards starting the digital transformation journey and was done to demonstrate the same for educational institutions in particular. The steps are generic and can be applied to organizations and businesses.

1. Road to Digital Transformation
“This presentation is part of faculty development program on digital transformation in education”
Biju Shoolapani
@bijushoolapani
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bijushoolapani/
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2. What is Digital Transformation?
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Digitization
Personalized
Aggregation
Conversational
Commerce
2000 2010 2020

3. Digital Transformation – “Experience Chasm”
“Digital transformations are driven by continuously innovating the customer experience and
requires an evolution in the DNA of the organization. Most times organizations are caught
in the ever widening gap that we call “experience chasm” and their position in the market is
lost or compromised by disruptors”
Digital experiences need to percolate into the fabric of an organization including
customers, partners, employees, community and government to create a Digital Ecosystem. 3

4. The Digital Ecosystem
“The ecosystem in an organization is made of people & infrastructure forming the input (fuel),
technology the process (engine) block and business solutions, products and services
(acceleration) being the output. Digital transformation cannot be done in isolation and
requires every part of the ecosystem to contribute.”. 4

5. 1. Embrace an agile culture for speed of delivery
2. Leverage real-time infrastructure on cloud and edge
3. Secure the ecosystem with trust for all stakeholders
4. Make knowledge ubiquitous across all touch points
5. Evolve personalized experiences during customer lifetime
6. Create a channel agnostic responsive environment
7. Develop a digital identity
What are the seven steps to “be digital”
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6. Step 1 - Embrace an agile culture
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7. Embrace an agile culture
Drive cost saves from legacy
investments to support new
innovation initiatives
Leverage small teams to
explore innovations to power
the business transformation
initiatives
Prepare the development
and ops functions to support
new digital initiatives
Automate the legacy
application portfolios to
reduce manual effort without
impacting business SLAs
Data
Driven
Decisions
Develop
Innovation
Ecosystem
Create new
digital
business
Initiatives
Provide
environ.
for
Developers
Optimize
Legacy
Process

8. Step 2 - Leverage scalable infrastructure
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9. Leverage scalable infrastructure
Developer
resources
Data Analyst
resources
Business User
resources
Operation
Team
resources
Customer
Focused
resources
Infrastructure to
support the
customers should
increasingly focus
on edge (IOE)
channels
Data scientist need to
have access to data and
infrastructure to enable
better decision making
Developers will need resources to
quickly deploy and market test
innovations
Business users will need to
gather intelligence in
understanding customer needs
and respond to market
Operation teams need to
continuously improve
efficiencies of scale to
power transformation
initiatives
Microservices
PaaS
Security
IaaS &
IOT

10. Step 3 - Secure the ecosystem with trust
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11. Secure the ecosystem with trust
Securing information, network, online, cloud, IOT, infrastructure, etc. are key pillars for
a digital transformation. Security breaches are slippery slopes for most digital journeys.
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12. Step 4 – Evolving Intelligence
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13. Evolving Intelligence
Ability to process data streams and create an evolving environment is key to navigate the
shifts in the digital interactions.

14. Step 5 – Customer Focus
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15. Customer Focus
How well do you know your customer ? Hyper-personalization requires understanding
the customer 360 degrees.
Segmentation
(Descriptive)
Personalization (Predictive)
Hyper-Personalization
(Prescriptive)
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16. Step 6 – Continuous Engagement
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17. Continuous Engagement
“Real-time” “Real-time”
Brands
Engaging
Consumers
Real
Time
Most of our natural interactions are real-time… are brands engaging with humans in
real-time or even near real-time ?
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Step 7 – Digital Identity @ Edge

19. Digital identity @ Edge
“The frontier for digital identity is being reset all the time and the definition of the
“edge” is getting closer to the consumer.”
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20. Physical Identity Code Halo
Machines Digital Twin
Realtime InsuranceInsurance
Virtual StoreBrick & Mortar
Virtual Showroom
Developing a digital identity @ Edge
Physical Virtual
Car Showroom
….. …..
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Framework for Academic Institutions

22. Input Stage for Academic Institutions
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23. Process Stage for Academic Institutions
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24. Thank you
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Digital Identity & future of Academic
Institutions is with YOU…
Biju Shoolapani
@bijushoolapani
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bijushoolapani/