Digital Transformation: The Time is Now

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Change Management   Innovation  

The pace of change is accelerating. Much has changed since we all started to dial in with our modems and connect to online services like America Online or Compuserve--and eventually directly onto the internet and the World Wide Web. Elements of our digital world continue to invade our language and our consciousness:

• “Text me later.”
• “Skype me tomorrow.”
• “Google it.”
• “#hashtag”
• “rotfl”

Whether we like it or not, the digital world is here to stay. People are more likely to freak out about leaving their mobile phone at home than their wallet. Soon you won’t even need to carry a wallet (unless you want to). Canada stopped making pennies. In Sweden, many businesses no longer take cash. Have you tried buying a drink on an airplane lately? (No cash accepted there, either.)

We now live in a digital age. Not because technology is new, but because the way we react to technology and interact with it is different. We’ve had technology for a while, but we used it primarily for performing calculations, and then for information storage and retrieval. But now, because the computer has moved from being a machine in a lab programmed with punch cards to something nearly every one of us carries in our pocket or wears on our wrist, we’re beginning to form relationships with machines and--more …

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