The high profile implosion of General Electric’s (GE) ambitious digital strategy has caught the attention of many practitioners and IT leaders over the last few months. GE is an iconic business conglomerate with major operations in Aerospace, Transportation, and Power, along with a major financing arm. GE has embarked on a massive digital transformation strategy a few years ago, with GE Digital ostensibly in charge of driving disruptive digital capabilities into the various business units. GE’s digital operation was touted as building software capabilities that drive business differentiators and ROI across aircraft engines/supply chains, transportation & power. GE also has been on record touting billions of dollars in cost savings attributed to this digital transformation, mainly due to improved fault tolerance & lower operating costs.
Please find below a blogpost from yours truly on Platform9 discussing why Digital Transformations fail.
What We Can Learn from GE and Why Digital Transformations Fail