Defining Digital Business

By |July 17th, 2020|

  Another post in our series on Digital Business Transformation success. In our previous post on Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation, we discussed the major problem with Digital initiatives, a lack of clarity being one of the causes of their frequent failure. If Digital has no meaning, then it has no focus. Digital is now a marketing buzzword to rebrand all of IT or technology as innovative. The rebrand creates an underlying message that all of your competitors are doing it, [...]

Why So Many Struggle with Digital Transformation

By |July 13th, 2020|

  This is the first part in a series on successful digital initiatives and transformation. A few practitioners from Accenture offered their insight in the Harvard Business Review on the "Two Big Reasons Digital Transformations Fail" (October 2019). Their survey results from 1,350 global businesses in seventeen countries and thirteen industries revealed poor returns from Digital Business initiatives. Two driving factors exist for digital initiative shortcomings: 1) Poor leadership alignme [...]

R3Now is dba IITRun

By |January 18th, 2020|

The name for IITRun started many years ago in association with R3Now and SAP's R3 product. Over the years, the R3Now tagline went from SAP with the Customer Point of View to Innovate, Integrate, and Transform. The passing of R3, and then ECC making way for S/4HANA, prompted changes: new branding, new insights, new approach. We needed something timeless but meaningful. Rather than a typical founder last name, or an invented word for a name, we chose to focus on how we help businesses succeed. We [...]

Make M&A Transition & Integration Easier

By |May 21st, 2019|

Merger & Acquisition Integration is hard work, but the rewards can be significant. Fortunately, we can accelerate the first hundred days to gain rapid benefits. Anyone who has done M&A work knows it can be difficult. Mergers and Acquisitions involve integrating the people, existing processes, technology, assets, products/services, cultures, and a whole host of other key items. None of this effort is trivial. Mix in aggressive TSA (Transitional Service Agreement) terms from an acquired d [...]

The Customer Experience Economy: Who Will Survive the Next 12 Years?

By |May 18th, 2019|

The need for change has never been clearer. At the same time, knowing the changes to make, with limited resources, has rarely been more obscure. Things change. It’s a fact of life. Whether the seasons, our age, or the weather, change keeps happening. Today, with all of the latest hype around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics and Digital Transformation, the reason for change to begin with gets lost in the buzz. You gloss over the “Why?” as you fall to the clamor that you ju [...]

Break Away from the Competition with Subscription Business Models

By |May 17th, 2019|

Using S/4HANA for innovation and business transformation! Subscription models represent an additional sales channel. Companies that do not pursue them give up that customer segment to competitors embracing subscriptions. Subscriptions are not silver bullets that solve all problems, but they do improve customer retention with deeper customer and market insight. Subscription business models are part of a digital journey and help you connect with your customers. Subscription management has unique [...]