If your team has been spinning out on your organization's digital transformation or the implementation of a product model, it’s easy to see the temptation of a canned plan. It’s billed as turnkey and can get your team out of the weeds quickly, right? Wrong. Here’s what it takes to create a successful transformation and implementation.

When a leadership team decides that they want to take on the hard work of a digital transformation, sometimes they think that it’s all about IT — modernizing the tech stack, creating seamless data flows, leveraging new tools, etc. We all know that’s not the whole story. It’s not a true transformation unless you’re taking on the entirety of the people, process and technology ecosystem inside of your organization.

This article explores the importance of Empowered Execution, why large organizations struggle with it, and how to build a team-based organizational structure and employee empowerment. Because without this core mindset, your teams and the organization are likely to fumble through transformation.

In this episode of Constant Variables, I break down how digital transformation is not just a technology integration, but a people and process integration, that ultimately delivers a more valuable customer and employee experience in every part of a business.