Digital transformation is resulting in radical shifts across industries. Customer expectations of experience are rising, there is disintermediation, direct channels are becoming more important, new competitors are emerging, and boundaries across industries are blurring. Such radical shifts are both a threat and an opportunity. For enterprises to emerge as winners in the digital age, it is critical that they form a forward-looking picture of how their industry is likely to evolve so they can anchor their business and technology strategies accordingly. This anchoring of digital transformation programs in outside-in industry changes is extremely critical to realizing the full potential of digital. However, this is not an easy exercise. While there are several common characteristics in the shifts happening across industries, their specifics and degree of development vary significantly. It is not easy to predict the nature and speed of evolution in each industry. While deep industry specific context and insight is of course important, there is a lot of value in observing patterns from other industries and trying to develop foresight. However, the interesting thing is that the industry maturity curve is not a given; enterprises can shape it based on their efforts. This is one of the distinguishing features of the digital age – you have the ability to shape your own future!
Let’s take a look at a few industries.
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- IntroductionDigital transformation presents enterprises with significant opportunities for value creation to benefit from the radical shifts that are being observed across industries. While there are nuances in these shifts across industries, there are some common characteristics in them.
Key Takeaways
Common shifts triggered by digital disruption1 - Digital Banking 2.0Banks have been attacked by digital natives. However, they still command high market share, driven by customer stickiness.
Most of the banks’ efforts have been centered on digitizing the front-end and developing a better system of engagement.
Whereas the core issues of their legacy system of records and business processes – which are stuck in a ‘control’ mindset – still persist.
Key Takeaways
Digital banking focus areas - product and services engagement, personalized customer experience, operations, technology, infrastructre modernization, Enterprise AI, Data8 - Digital Transformation in the Wealth Management Industry
- Digital transformation has been a topic of management discussion ever since robo-advisors attacked the market. However, little has changed on the ground.
- The Covid-19 pandemic was a real stress-test of the industry for its work-from-home readiness. Despite initial concerns, the industry has, on the whole, successfully passed the test. Still, a lot of work needs to be done on cybersecurity and adherence to the wave of regulations that has happened globally.
- We will see an acceleration of digital transformation in the industry, with themes like advisor personalization, intelligent automation of the mid-back office, and harnessing the full potential of data with cloud.
10 priorities for digital transformation in the wealth management industry1 - How Digital is Disrupting Payments
- Payments has been at the forefront of digital transformation, and already FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet) and the Chinese Big Three (Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent) have attacked this space.
- One can expect some big moves in this space as it will see disruption happening at a rapid pace.
- The enterprise payments space will see a change similar to what has already been observed in the consumer-to-consumer segment.
Trends that will impact the Payments segment
Digital Transformation in Payments: 4 Areas of focus5 - How Telecom Players can Win in the Digital Age
- Telcos have been investing a lot in digital infrastructure as the industry progressed from 2G to 5G. However, they have not realized the desired value from these investments.
- Instead, OTTs have won the game of content, leveraging the infrastructure that telcos had primarily invested in.
- Now, 5G presents telcos a breakthrough opportunity. But to realize gains from it, they will need to reshape their offerings, their business model and internal processes.
Key challenges for telecom industry
Why telecom operators are obsessed with deployment of 5G?6 - Driving Enterprise Product Business in Uncertain Times
- This industry stands to gain the most from digital and leapfrog ahead, leveraging cloud-led ‘saasification’.
- To play offence and emerge as a winner, it is critical that product businesses first play defence well.
- There are six themes that leaders of product businesses must emphasize and re-evaluate to bring about change. These include protecting revenues from existing clients, opportunities to grow in white spaces between existing products, stepping up leveraging of global delivery model and innovative partnerships for go-to-market.
What businesses should take care of on priority during uncertain times?1 - Digital in Life Sciences
- Life sciences has been one of the laggards but is now at a tipping point for digital transformation.
- To win, players must consider a fundamental shift in the business model by putting the patient at the centre. Historically, it is the clinician that has been the customer in this industry.
- Four imperatives to drive successful execution in this industry are: cloud, automation, a partnering ecosystem and driving open innovation.
Reimagining innovation in R & D
Rise of Digital Patient Engagement Models2 - Quiz1