9AUGUST - 2023digital technology journey. Once the rest of the elements are defined, this element becomes the objective. Incentives are the next element to define. Answering everyone's' question of `why' paves the way through the first major obstacle. For leaders tasking an initiative to their team, this justifies their time and effort to work on the task. For someone who's proposing an initiative to their leaders, this justifies the company's resources to be dedicated to the digital technology implementation. Without the incentives being clearly defined, both scenarios will face resistance. Once the vision and incentives have been defined, the skills element is next. Identifying the right skill sets is critical to success because assigning someone or a team of people to implement your digital technology who doesn't have the right skills will cause anxiety for the individual or team of people which will in turn prevent your initiative from either launching or being sustainable. Resources go right along with skills. If you put people in place with the right skills sets but don't give them the tools they need to be successful; this causes frustration. Again, this will prevent your initiative from either launching or being sustainable. The last element and equally as important as the other four is an action plan with target dates, champions to complete the tasks and a leader to drive the action plan. Defining vision, incentives, skills, and resources is just talk. Completing tasks on the action plan is where real change beings to happen. With a clear action plan with target dates, champions assigned to tasks and a leader to drive the actions your digital technology initiative will fail to launch because no one is being held accountable. With a clear action plan with target dates, champions assigned to tasks and a leader to drive the actions your digital technology initiative will fail to launch because no one is being held accountable
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