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customers, along with the service call center,

THE TAKEAWAYS:

would all be aware of service issues as they
arose and kept up to date on our service
response in real time.

*	 Digital	transformation	isn't	about	
technology, it's about looking

Even more important to transforming

comprehensively at your business with

the service model, we needed to integrate
with this digital solution for customers and

the aim of enhancing or reinventing your

technicians the data generated by our digital
solution for products - and not just data,

business model. Too often, people mistake

but our analysis of that data. This analysis of

discrete digital initiatives - developing a

the data generated by individual elevators
would provide a technician with diagnostic

tremendous customer app, for example, or

information about the particular equipment

integrating your products into the Internet

he was working on. And in many cases, it

of Things - for digital transformation.

would ensure that the parts he needed to fix a
problem were already in his vehicle.
This last step - analyzing the data you collect

*	 To	take	full	advantage	of	new	digital	
technologies, you need to take a holistic

from products over the Internet of Things - is

approach. That's because when digital

one that many companies have yet to take. But
from the beginning we said, "If we get this data

capabilities are adopted across functions

out of the products, then we need to make

or along an entire value chain, they

useful process information out of it."
So we needed a comprehensive digital

synergistically reinforce each other and

platform not just because it covered all
the bases but because the integration of

generate benefits that extend beyond the

the different elements yielded benefits we

area of their immediate application.

wouldn't realize if they had been treated
separately. That's what made our initiative a

*	 A	digital	transformation	program	

real game changer for us.

represents a huge change for an

My final bit of advice: When you have

organization, and managing it requires

completed an initiative like ours, ignore that
satisfying but misleading sense of completion.

an appreciation of three factors affecting

What seems like completion is only a milestone

this kind of change: an organization's

on the digital transformation journey.

functional focus, its workforce, and the

1.4% of U.S. adults use
the Internet.

1985

1983

IT function.

Whole Earth's 'Lectronic Link (WELL) established,
one of the first "virtual communities."



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