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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?

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

Effective Budgets and KPIs for Enterprise Transformation Reinvent the IT Organization for the Digital Enterprise Employing Appropriate AI Technologies Architecting and Developing the Digital Platform Modernize Infrastructure for the Digital Enterprise Rationalize and Modernize Applications for the Digital Enterprise Effective and Competitive Sourcing in the Digital Enterprise – Beyond the RFP Managing and Leveraging Cloud for the Future Enterprise Creating a Secure and Trustworthy Digital Enterprise

Intelligence

Employing Appropriate AI Technologies Architecting and Developing the Digital Platform Develop an Information Transformation Program Employing Data Management & Analytics Technologies Digital Enterprise Cloud Planning: Metrics, Economics and Compliance

Work

Attract and Cultivate Digital Talent Nurturing Innovation Culture in the Future Enterprise

Customers

Creating a Secure and Trustworthy Digital Enterprise Communication Strategies for Enterprise Transformation Data Monetization Capabilities, Governance and Planning Developing Data as a Service Offerings

Culture

Effective and Competitive Sourcing in the Digital Enterprise – Beyond the RFP Communication Strategies for Enterprise Transformation Establishing a Transformation Leader and Priorities Creating an Enterprise-wide Transformation Designing and Planning the Digital Platform Nurturing Innovation Culture in the Future Enterprise

Insights beyond the Planning Guides

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DX Taxonomy & Use Cases

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.

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Maturity 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.

Understand Dimensions and Stages

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