Strong planning and execution are crucial to set the stage for a successful transformation process. It also allows organizations to be more agile and adaptable as they face new challenges and opportunities, enabling them to pivot quickly, maximize resources, and operate as effectively as needed. Without a strong foundation, transformation efforts can become disjointed and ineffective, leading to wasted time and resources, as well as frustration and disengagement among employees. 

Ahead of the Business Transformation Exchange USA 2023, we spoke exclusively to David Atkinson, SVP and Chief HR Officer for Advocate Health’s Midwest Region, which includes the care delivery brands of Advocate Health Care in Illinois and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. We discussed his experience with large-scale organization design, structural architecture in mergers and acquisitions and laying the foundations for successful transformation. 

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• David’s experience with pre-transformation planning 
• How organizational structure has played a part in the success or failure of transformations 
• The greatest challenges when trying to ensure strong foundations and planning for successful transformation 
• How to go about building the evidence base for business transformation projects 
• The common mistakes organizations make when laying the foundations for successful transformation and how to avoid these 
• The top lessons learned from laying a strong foundation 
• Key advice for ensuring a strong infrastructure, strategy, governance and organizational structure to support successful transformation 

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Digital transformation, data centricity, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) are three critical components that are reshaping the business landscape in the 21st century. As organizations navigate the ever-evolving technological landscape, they are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities.

Embracing digital transformation, adopting a data-driven approach to decision-making, and harnessing the power of generative AI has become imperative for businesses to stay relevant, competitive, and agile in today's fast-paced, data-driven world. Not only is digital transformation important to stay ahead of the curve, but it is also a matter of survival in the current, competitive market - especially to enable scaling and growth. Embracing and elevating digital transformation goes hand in hand with many wider transformation initiatives being explored by leading enterprises. However, these transformations also come with their share of complexities, ranging from organizational culture shifts, data governance and privacy concerns, to ethical considerations around AI. 

Ahead of the Business Transformation Exchange USA 2023, we asked industry leaders about their greatest challenges with accelerating data-driven digital transformation and implementing generative AI, how to overcome these challenges, and key success factors to help you accelerate digital transformation, by leveraging data and generative AI, to optimize processes, engage employees and improve customer centricity. 

This benchmarking report will provide you with the unique opportunity to explore where companies are in their digital transformation journey, their overall progress in accelerating data-driven transformation and their readiness to implement generative AI. In addition, we showcase areas of business with the most potential for generative AI to transform and top advice for leaders looking to accelerate data-driven digital transformation and generative AI. 

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• Where leading organizations are in their digital transformation journey 
• Organization’s overall progress in accelerating data-driven transformation 
• Organization’s readiness to implement generative AI 
• The greatest challenges with accelerating data-driven digital transformation and implementing generative AI, and how to overcome these challenges 
• Key success factors for accelerating data-driven digital transformation and generative AI 
• Areas of business with the most potential for generative AI to transform 
• Top advice for leaders looking to accelerate data-driven digital transformation and generative AI 

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Ahead of our spring edition of Business Transformation Exchange USA, attendees were asked what their top challenges were for 2023 and which areas they planned to invest in over the next 6 - 12 months. This infographic is a perfect snapshot to see where your competitors and peers are focusing their time, energy and most importantly money this year, and will help you transform your organization into the business of tomorrow.

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Get a flavor of who you can expect to meet at the Fall edition of the Business Transformation Exchange USA 2023, by taking a look at our spring attendees, including representatives from DuPont, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Verizon, Google, BNY Mellon, VISA and more! 

As businesses are poised for recovery and growth in 2022, it has never been so critical for leaders to drive business transformation from the top down, to position their company for sustained success and growth for the foreseeable future. Yet many OPEX and transformation leaders find themselves in unfamiliar waters, with the pace of change spinning faster than ever, rulebooks being torn and redrawn, and a distributed workforce adding another layer of complexity.

In addition, transformation leaders must know how to navigate these changes, and with the endless number of choices, key questions remain: where do you go next when each path leads to countless other paths? and how do you get this right?

Ahead of OPEX Exchange Summer USA 2022, we spoke exclusively to Sury Bhattacharya, SVP & Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy & Transformation at U.S. Bank and Roeland Vertriest, Vice President Operational Excellence at DuPont, about the new fundamentals for business transformation, to help you deliver the greatest tangible benefit for your organization going forward.

Key benefits to downloading the full interview:

• Discover how the role of the business transformation leader is evolving
• Find out the key skills and assets required by future transformation leaders
• Learn how to effectively align business and operational strategies
• Key initiatives for driving business transformation
• A summary of how to build an agile business that can respond to current and future challenges

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