Use of IT and Digital Strategy for Productivity

Referring to the basic concepts of economics, we know that an increase in productivity is a stimulus for an economy to grow. Better productivity leads to more employment, less inflation and as a result less decline in GDP. Customer demand increases and we tend to reach an equilibrium position hitting the pinnacles of success. On a small scale, this concept can be applied to organizations and corporations as well. But productivity depends on many factors including employee skill development, digital transformation, and organizational structure. The locus of all these indicators of productivity is the use of IT and digital strategies to help employees do better and more. Production of new products and reimagining business processes with differentiated business models will lead to competitive business advantage. The following are some digital strategies that can help to increase productivity.

Platform Play:

Many organizations are reshaping and redefining their core business values and that could help them to reach their target customers. This also helps their potential customers to interact more directly benefit from network effects. The digitalizing platform will help the organizations to alter the way value is distributed in a value chain.

New Marginal Supply:

Today many organizations use digital technology to tap into the previous inaccessible supply of resources at marginal cost. An explicit example can be the use of online reseller options for customers allowing them to sell used products to one another.

Customized Digital Products:

Many clothing brands are using digital services to create new products with digital features typically to satisfy customer demand in the market. Also, they provide their customers to customize the articles themselves typically to interact with customers and reach their product demand.

Less Authoritative System:

Digital change asks for reforms in organizational structure, customer interactions, stakeholder's interaction, organizational culture and skill and behavior of the employees. Many digital strategies and use of software can reduce the authoritative management system to open systems. This will help employees to involve in the decision-making process and participate actively which will increase the productivity of the organization.

Metrics:

The use of analytics to calculate IT, HR and business metrics helps to create a digital scorecard. For example, you can gauge user engagement to tracking daily active users and time spent in collaboration software. This will help to quantify positive impacts on workforce effectiveness, employee agility and employee satisfaction and retention, the information you can use later to assess change management and refine your approach. 

Why Does A Corporation Fail?

If you’ve ever started a business and failed, you might feel terrible about the loss of time, effort and money. At that time you are only thinking about the things that you knew. Coming to the basics a corporation is always run by its employees who are committed to executing their tasks to achieve collective goals. It is not always right to say that a corporation fails because team members are not performing well or it's the inefficiency of the employees which is to be blamed. There are certainly other reasons that lead to winding up and the collapse of an organization. 

Alignment of culture with the mission:

Many companies fail to execute successfully even though intelligent minds are behind the brain of the organization because they fail to understand or develop an integrated structure of the organization which sinks well with the missions and goals. Also, the culture of the organization must be adaptive to the external environment because any change in customer demand and technology must be tailored accordingly.

Poor marketing:

In this day and age, it is essential to utilize all social media and print platforms to market your business even if you have to outsource help to do so. Successful marketing gives your business the image it needs and appeals to your target audience. Poor marketing leads to business failure when people don't understand what your business is about.

Inappropriate planning:

Lack of planning is when you ignore the value of planning and don’t bother to learn the methodology of planning. A good plan should include both short- and long-term goals as well as a way to measure goals and results. It should also have clear to-do lists, benchmarks, and milestones.

Poor leadership:

Leadership is essential, without it, it's hard to make good decisions or take effective actions. Leadership affects every aspect of a business, from how productively employees work to how operations are organized. Leadership does not mean an authoritative style of management but a collaborative structure as a whole.

Risk blindness:

A crucial reason corporations often fail is their inability to engage with risk in the same way they engage with opportunity and reward. Risk blindness means that problems are ignored which gives them time to grow. Most problems are a great deal easier to tackle when they’re small which turns out to be worse when they are wrongly treated.