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Global Research Report Shows Enterprises Trapped in Digital Transformation Gridlock
- Global research from Bizagi reveals that digital transformation is ‘a significant strategic challenge’ for 87% of businesses and 70% agree that efforts to transform the business are undermined by complexity

London, UK – June 21, 2016: Nine in ten businesses (87%) face severe turbulence as they pursue digital transformation, according to research from Bizagi, a leading provider of digital process automation software.  

 

Bizagi 11 is uniquely enhanced by harnessing the shared insight and innovations created by Bizagi’s global community of more than 500,000 process pioneers – business and technology professionals committed to improving digital transformation. Through the Bizagi Xchanges, users can access the process applications, integration connectors and user interface widgets created by their peers across this global community, further accelerating their transformation programs.

The global study of over 1,000 IT and customer experience professionals demonstrates that businesses are rapidly embracing digital transformation, with 73% believing that failure to keep up will result in commercial downfall. However, the speed of change required, coupled with the complexity of the challenge, is leading the vast majority of large businesses into technological ‘traffic jams.’

 

The pace of change
Only one in three businesses globally (32%) claim they currently have a high level of live transformation projects. The USA and Canada are leading the charge, with 52% of businesses already undertaking new digital projects, followed by Brazil (39%) and the UK (31%), while at the other end of the scale this falls as low as 24% in the Nordics and 18% in Benelux.

However, three quarters of the respondents (75%) believe that the pace of change is increasing due to disruptive businesses challenging the status quo, with the vast majority (82%) understanding they must accelerate the pace of transformation to keep up in their industry.

 

Drivers of digital transformation
The drivers and risks associated with transformation are varied. Three in five businesses (60%) specify the need for operational agility as a key driver, while more than half (54%) identify the need to respond to changing customer expectations.

Four in five respondents (80%) think that providing a better customer experience that understands the immediate needs and situation of the individual is essential to create a competitive advantage. The customer becomes even more important for businesses with high levels of digital change already in progress, of whom 79% cite changes in customer expectation as the key driver for change.

“Customer expectation is changing the way businesses think and creating the momentum behind digital transformation,” comments Gustavo Gomez, CEO of Bizagi. “The majority of businesses are struggling to avoid the pitfalls that accompany digital transformation, and the secret to overcoming these challenges is to understand the drivers of change and create the IT agility to respond quickly.
“Businesses can then balance ideas, collaboration and technology to overcome the obstacles they currently face and create an army of ‘can-do’ pioneers to make change happen, which will help them reap the rewards of digital transformation.”

 

The agility trap
The main obstacles for businesses seeking rapid digital transformation relate to company culture, organisational complexity and the lack of processes that enable employees to engage, collaborate and innovate. These challenges are what Bizagi describes as ‘The Agility Trap,’ which occurs when businesses’ quest for rapid digital transformation is restricted by commercial, organisational or technological complexity.

The greatest risk facing organisations is not being ready to implement digital transformation projects, as 70% of respondents claim that their efforts to transform are undermined by internal complexity. Despite prioritising transformation projects, the faster businesses move the more they face obstacles that slow them down. As a result, companies are falling into the following traps:

  • Failing to plan: Not pre-determining the complexity of current business systems and processes before starting implementations. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (63%) feel they neglect the implications and depth of systems change in their businesses when trying to build engaging services and user experiences

  • Underestimating resistance to change: An unwillingness to embrace change is seeing more than 51% of businesses state they are either resistant to or have mixed views towards transformational change

  • Neglecting systems agility: Only 28% of respondents believe their existing customer systems are highly agile, while 26% report highly agile employee systems and just 21% describe their operational systems in the same way

 

“We are passionate and committed to helping our customers ignite their digital transformation strategies and overcome the digital constraints that hold back so many enterprises today. Bizagi 11, is unique in its ability to help large enterprises, otherwise bound by inflexible legacy systems and a culture fearful of experimentation, to facilitate the ideas, collaboration and rapid change that underpin all successful digital businesses. The global launch we’re announcing today is an important milestone for both our customers and the broader market.” added Gomez.

Download your free, full copy of ‘The Agility Trap’ research report 

 

Notes to editors:

Research objectives: Companies pursuing transformational can experience a lot of turbulence along the way. Large, complex businesses discover that the pace of change is set by their customers and a wave of disruptive competition. To find out what measures can be taken to increase the pace of business change and the probability of success, Bizagi has asked 1000 large business worldwide to share their experiences and opinion of driving digital transformation.

Research methodology: The Agility Trap research was commissioned by Bizagi and conducted in May 2016 by Loudhouse, an independent research consultancy head-quartered in the UK. Respondents were identified as having senior decision making responsibility for IT within their organisation, or a senior customer experience professional. 1,004 interviews were conducted online using an online survey with respondents from the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Benelux, Nordics, Columbia, Brazil and Mexico.

 

About Bizagi

Bizagi's industry-leading platform for low-code process automation connects people, applications, robots, and information. As the most business-friendly and flexible solution on the market, Bizagi's cloud-native platform enables true collaboration between business and IT, delivering faster adoption and success. Fueled by a community of millions of users, Bizagi powers over 400 enterprises worldwide including Adidas, Unilever, DHL, and Bancolombia. For more information visit https://www.bizagi.com.

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Tim Burton
Bizagi
marketing@bizagi.com