This repository contains the official strategic frameworks and supplementary resources for the book "Decisively Digital: From Creating a Culture to Designing Strategy" by Alexander Loth. These tools are designed to help you translate the book's powerful insights into actionable strategies for your organization.
"Decisively Digital" is a comprehensive guide to mastering digital strategy and transformation in the modern business landscape. The book leverages practical examples and incisive interviews with 24 leaders from the vanguard of the digital revolution—including experts from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and AWS—to provide a clear roadmap for success.
The book is structured into six core parts, guiding you from foundational strategy to advanced implementation:
- Part I: Digital Strategy: Provides a master framework to identify requirements and define a digital strategy tailored to your organization.
- Part II: Digital Culture and Modern Work: Explores how technology fundamentally changes the way we work and communicate, and how this intersects with corporate culture.
- Part III: Data Democracy and Analytics: Discusses how to empower every person in your organization by enabling them to access, understand, and communicate with data.
- Part IV: Big Data Processing and Cloud Computing: Examines the essential methods for retrieving, storing, and processing vast amounts of data to generate value.
- Part V: Artificial Intelligence: Explores how intelligent agents can take actions that maximize the chance of successfully achieving your business goals.
- Part VI: Process Automation, Blockchain, and IoT: Investigates how the integration of the physical world into computer-based systems drives efficiency, economic benefits, and reduced human exertion.
This repository contains the key visual frameworks and templates discussed throughout "Decisively Digital." Each resource is designed to be a practical tool for workshops, presentations, and strategic planning sessions.
| Resource & Download | Description | Relevant Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 🖼️ Digital Strategy Big Picture Template Download |
The central, overarching framework to map out your organization's entire digital strategy, connecting strategic topics, culture, impact, and digital capabilities. | Chapter 1, Figure 1.2 |
| 🎯 Impact Venn Download |
A visual tool to understand how Strategy, Culture, and Digital Capabilities must intersect to generate meaningful business impact. | Chapter 1, Figure 1.3 |
| 📈 Digital Maturity & Org. Readiness Download |
A framework and assessment tool to measure your organization's current digital capabilities (maturity) and your team's ability to adopt them (readiness). | Chapter 1, Figures 1.4 & 1.5 |
| 🤝 Collaboration Framework Download |
A template for defining which communication and collaboration tools to use for different audiences and levels of urgency, based on the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. | Chapter 6, Figure 6.1 |
| 📊 Data Strategy Download |
A model outlining the three core elements of a successful data strategy: Big Data, Analytics, and Decision-Support Tools. | Chapter 17, Figure 17.1 |
There are two easy ways to get these resources, depending on your technical comfort level.
This is the simplest method. You can download all the frameworks in a single .zip file, with no special software required.
- Click the green
< > Codebutton on the top right of this page. - In the dropdown menu, click
Download ZIP. - Unzip the file on your computer to access all the PowerPoint files.
If you are familiar with Git, you can clone this repository to your local machine.
git clone [https://github.com/aloth/decisively-digital-book-resources.git](https://github.com/aloth/decisively-digital-book-resources.git)
cd decisively-digital-book-resourcesThe frameworks provided here are not isolated tools; they form a cohesive system for building and executing a robust digital strategy, as detailed in the book. They are designed to be used together in a logical progression:
- Start with the Big Picture: The Digital Strategy Big Picture Template is your master canvas. It provides the structure to document your entire strategic vision.
- Diagnose Your Current State: Use the Digital Maturity & Organizational Readiness assessment to understand where your organization stands today. This diagnostic tool helps you populate the "Digital Capabilities" section of your Big Picture with an honest assessment of your strengths and weaknesses.
- Define Your Impact: The Impact Venn is a conceptual tool to facilitate discussions about how your strategy, culture, and capabilities will combine to create tangible business value. It helps you clarify the "Impact" section of your Big Picture.
- Deep Dive into Key Areas: Once your high-level strategy is mapped out, use the Collaboration Framework and the Data Strategy model as specialized templates to detail the execution plans for these critical components of modern digital transformation.
By using these frameworks in concert, you can move from high-level vision to detailed, actionable planning.
If you are using the concepts or frameworks from "Decisively Digital" in your academic or research work, please use the following BibTeX entry to cite the book:
@book{Loth2021,
author = {Alexander Loth},
title = {Decisively Digital: From Creating a Culture to Designing Strategy},
publisher = {Wiley},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781119737285}
}This repository is a living resource for the "Decisively Digital" community. Your feedback and contributions are highly valued and help improve these tools for everyone.
- Have a suggestion? If you have an idea to improve a framework or add a new resource, please open an issue to start a discussion.
- Find an error? If you spot a typo or an error in the materials, please let us know by opening an issue.
- Share your adaptation: Have you adapted one of these frameworks for a specific industry (e.g., healthcare, manufacturing, finance)? Consider sharing your version by submitting a pull request.
Alexander Loth is a digital strategist with a background in computational nuclear research. For more than 12 years, he has advised leading companies on their digital transformation journeys. He currently serves as an executive advisor at Microsoft and is a co-founder of the fintech advisory Futura Analytics. Alexander holds an MBA from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where he also lectures on the subject of the Digital Society.
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