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to Become a "Future Enterprise"
Introducing IDC's Planning Guides
Let IDC's Future Enterprise Planning Guides help you through key transformation stages. Each module guide is valuable in its own right; together they outline the process for transforming your organization into a future enterprise that can operate like a digital native.
The guides are included in IDC’s IT Executive Programs or can be purchased separately.
What's in the Planning Guide?What's in the Planning Guides?
Each guidebook provides actionable research to guide you on a focused aspect of digital transformation.
We put you in touch with the most relevant IDC research intelligence – no matter where in the journey you are.
Mentorship and peer insight means you’ll know what to look for and what to avoid.
Intelligence, data and advice in a single package
IDC’s deep industry knowledge
Downloadable tools and links to additional relevant IDC research
Mentorship and guidance from your peers

Where do I start?
IDC's planning guides allow technology leaders to focus on particular aspects of the transformation process. The guidebooks revolve around the five major dimensions necessary for a digital transformation to the future enterprise. Digital Natives leverage these dimensions to adapt to changing opportunities and threats.
Culture
Transformation is not just a top-down initiative –it relies on an organization's ability to foster a culture where it is a central tenet and enterprise-wide strategy.
Customers
Successfully engaging with the future customer requires recognition of their unique aspects and needs – essentially empathy at scale.
Intelligence
Scale insight with an infusion of collective human - machine learning into operations, work, and experiences. This intelligence fuels innovation, value and decision making.
Operations
The complex future requires resilient operations based on a common core that allows intelligence, rapid decision making, self-healing, and innovation.
Work
A fundamental transformation of workers and skills, talent management, and culture is creating flexible, mobile environments featuring intelligent technologies.
Simply select topic or dimension to get started
Choose any guide to see its details or pick a dimension to see related guides.
You can also learn more about the
transformation dimensions or take our free
Future Enterprise Maturity Model Assessment
that will analyze the maturity of your organization in its journey to the future enterprise.
Operations
Resilience at Scale
Operational excellence is no longer enough – the future requires innovative, resilient operations that allow intelligence & rapid decision making.
Effective Budgets and KPIs for Enterprise Transformation
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Reinvent the IT Organization for the Digital Enterprise
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Employing Appropriate AI Technologies
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Architecting and Developing the Digital Platform
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Modernize Infrastructure for the Digital Enterprise
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Rationalize and Modernize Applications for the Digital Enterprise
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Effective and Competitive Sourcing in the Digital Enterprise – Beyond the RFP
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Intelligence
Insight at Scale
Intelligence will increasingly scale through human-machine learning into work, operations, & experiences that fuel decisions, innovation & economic value.
Develop an Information Transformation Program
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Employing Data Management & Analytics Technologies
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Digital Enterprise Cloud Planning: Metrics, Economics and Compliance
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Managing and Leveraging Cloud for the Future Enterprise
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Where do you want to focus first?
Choose any guide to see its details or pick a dimension to see related guides.
Work
Work Model at Scale
Work, skills, talent and culture are undergoing a transformation toward a flexible work environment featuring human-machine collaboration.
Creating a Secure and Trustworthy Digital Enterprise
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Customers
Empathy at Scale
Successfully engaging with the future customer requires empathy at scale. It’s a fundamental shift that recognizes customers’ unique aspects and needs.
Communication Strategies for Enterprise Transformation
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Data Monetization Capabilities, Governance and Planning
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Developing Data as a Service Offerings
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Attract and Cultivate Digital Talent
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Establishing a Transformation Leader and Priorities
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Creating an Enterprise-wide Transformation
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Designing and Planning the Digital Platform
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Culture
Leadership at Scale
DX cannot scale as a top-down initiative –organizations must foster a culture where transformation is a core tenet and an enterprise-wide strategy.
Nurturing Innovation Culture in the Future Enterprise
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Operations
Intelligence
Customers
Culture
Insights beyond the Planning Guides
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IDC has developed hundreds of use cases for digital programs in over 15 industries. The cases outline specific projects, goals, business outcomes and key technologies. Chose strategic priorities, zero in on programs, and get a long-term plan to achieve your strategic priorities.
Explore the Use CasesMaturity Assessment
IDC’s Future Enterprise MaturityScape provides a framework for viewing DX maturity across five stages and multiple dimensions. The Maturity Model was designed to help business and IT leaders understand and cope with the challenges and opportunities of Digital Transformation.
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