Reaching Your North Star: A Guide to Digital Transformation

In a typical transformation, a company engages visionaries at the front end of an initiative to help define the vision: to paint a picture of the organization’s North Star state – the ‘What.’ This often involves an external consultant (consider this person an external visionary) sitting down with experienced corporate veterans to imagine, ‘What if?’ and then developing a document that puts all the pieces together. The output of this process is then usually given to a project team to implement.