Season 4 Finale: Digitally Transformed

08/20/23 • 27 min

James and I closed out our season of exploring digital transformation and its various meanings with a wrap-up conversation.

Awesome Episodes This Season

Money Quotes

James

In a healthy, modern enterprise, we should constantly be renewing ourselves...There’s no getting around the hard work that it takes to continue maturing your organization.

The compounding benefits you can see from “continuous everything”...it’s hard to quantify.

Paul

We still live in a world where experts are truly experts. That expertise can lead to things where, when we get in the room to do design...they themselves may not have agreed or have codified how they get their stuff done.

It has never been the case where we have digitally transformed something utterly out of a human’s hands. I have never obviated the accounting department.

If you do digital transformation, what is being transformed?

James and I closed out our season of exploring digital transformation and its various meanings with a wrap-up conversation.

Awesome Episodes This Season

Money Quotes

James

In a healthy, modern enterprise, we should constantly be renewing ourselves...There’s no getting around the hard work that it takes to continue maturing your organization.

The compounding benefits you can see from “continuous everything”...it’s hard to quantify.

Paul

It has never been the case where we have digitally transformed something utterly out of a human’s hands. I have never obviated the accounting department.

If you do digital transformation, what is being transformed?

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Money Quotes

James

You’re seeing a shift from systems being systems of record to decision support.

The proliferation of low-code tools are making it much more accessible to interconnect front-office and back-office systems.

This is coming very soon: enterprise-grade GPT services that train on your data.

Intranets are usually where information goes to die.

Paul

The future of work is about the new ubiquity of really good tech. There’s a shift going on in how much businesses believe they can actually do with technology.

I see the lights turn on with more non-techie people now, when the conversation turns to what you can do with it in your business.

The fact that the world is changing so fast means that there is such a thing as “The Future of Work”.

ChatGPT made the magic of tech real to people who don’t give a crap about tech. We as techies live in a world where we have always believed [that tech could make a real difference], but now it’s clear to non-techies.