It is a common misconception that digital transformation is only skin deep – a change in the way an enterprise interacts with customers, perhaps, but with little change beneath.
Reality, however, is often quite different. Digital transformation requires end-to-end, systemic change in an organization – change so profound that a company is likely to find themselves in a different business altogether.
JLL is a case in point. With more than 280 offices and 60,000 employees, and more than $138 billion in sales, acquisitions, and finance transactions in 2016, JLL is a global financial and professional services firm that specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management, managing over four billion square feet of commercial space.
As part of its digital transformation, however, JLL is becoming increasingly software-driven. As a result, in many ways it is now a cloud-based software company. There is an important lesson here for any enterprise undergoing such transformation: digital changes everything.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2016/08/11/digitally-transforming-technology-and-business-at-jll/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Riverbed Technology is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers.
