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The UNITE building blocks of digitalization

The model helps you gain a complete understanding of the holistic and integrated nature of innovation and transformation initiatives.

The UNITE building blocks of digitalization
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The package

What the download contains

The UNITE building blocks of digitalization — download package
  1. The UNITE Building Blocks of Digitalization
  2. The UNITE perspectives on Strategy as to help you gain a holistic understanding on strategy
  3. Overview of the entire UNITE Business Model Framework
  • Understand that digitalization goes far beyond the scope of any individual business area
  • Consider the components of a larger digitalization effort
  • Invites you to think about what it means for your organization

The case

Why we use it

It is impossible today to talk about innovation or transformation without highlighting the integrated nature of the key building blocks, including strategy, ecosystem and Business Models; culture, engagement and experience; process and structure; technology and data; and Value Proposition and Value Chain. At the same time, many people think that digitalization is limited to technology, design or processes. This is not the case. In fact, we have to consider and understand digitalization as a holistic effort.

The mechanics

How It Works

The diagram contains the key dimensions of any larger digitalization effort. If you undertake a larger innovation or transformation initiative, these are the items you should be considering, and which you will have to work on sooner or later. The UNITE building blocks of digitalization also help you assess where you stand: have you considered all building blocks? Did you cover everything you have to? You can almost use the tool as a high-level health check, covering each area in order to understand how far you have gotten in your strategy, planning, execution and change-management.

The purpose

What is the goal of the model?

“True digitalization is a systemic endeavor.”. While the digitization of analogue information and processes is a crucial first step to digitalizing an organization, it takes a paradigm shift to fully understand the total landscape of digitalization.

Beyond the download

Use this model in Axibra, not only in a slide deck

The PDF is yours to keep. But a model changes something only when it touches the work — and that is what Axibra does with it. The model becomes the structure your decisions are made in, and every outcome stays traceable back to the input it came from.

In practice

Where this model does its work

For years we applied this model by hand, in client engagements. It now runs inside Axibra.

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Digital transformation

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Stefan F. Dieffenbacher

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