Digital transformation is hard!

Tolstoy wrote at the beginning of his novel "Anna Karenina", "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". It is called Anna Karenina principle. The same can be said for digital transformation. 

According to unofficial statistics, large percentage of digital transformation initiatives failed. Why? What went wrong? Business and technology executives are searching for an answer. In Tolstoy's words, those successful digital transformation initiatives do share a common set of attributes, and the deficiencies in any of those attributes may lead to a failure in the execution of a digital transformation initiative.

Reflecting on my personal learning and reading experience, as well as my own observations, I want to share my views, experiences, and understanding on how to get it right. The topics will be covered here including:

• Business and technology strategy, technology planning;
• Enterprise architecture strategy, architect, architecting and architecture
• Emerging technology introduction and adoption
• New business model and technology Innovation (Insurtech, Fintech, Healthtech, Smart City etc)  

Regarding emerging technologies, I am passionate about the following, so any of them may be a topic or case study in my blog:

• Enterprise integration (API First, Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Kafka, etc.)
• Enterprise automation (AI/ML, RPA, BPM, Robotics, etc.)
• Enterprise insight (AI/ML, NLP, Big Data, Data Lake, Data Science)
• Enterprise infrastructure (Cloud native, Container, Kubernetes, Docker, Observability, SRE, etc.)
• Enterprise experience (Design Thinking, UI/UX, Product strategy, Mobile, conversational UI)
• Enterprise agility (Agile, DevOps, etc.)

I will try my best to write as much as possible as times allow. All thoughts expressed here are my personal view of things. Some may be wrong, and some may be inaccurate, I would welcome all feedback and comments.