The following infographic highlights the top eight areas that executives and management teams need to review when conducting Digital Transformation business planning. It's a helpful way to evaluate your current technology situation and give you and your team a simple plan to successfully move forward in digitally transforming your business.

Digital transformation is quickly changing the way we work from physical to digital workflows. Every industry and business is being changed by this megatrend and it will rapidly speed up over the next five to ten years.  The following article gives you a good overview, the top ideas on how you can use e-Signature cloud and mobile technology in your business, and a list of some easy, fast benefits.

Don't look now but your neighborhood Bank Branch location may soon be closing.  The Banking industry has woken up to two important facts:

1. Most Customers really don't like (or have time) to come into a Bank Branch (or use ATMs) and more and more of them would rather just use their laptops, tablets or smartphones for most transactions
2. It costs a Bank 90% less for a customer to use a mobile app to complete a transaction vs them coming into a bank to execute a transaction

How many good candidates have you lost by being too slow in getting back to them? 

I'd like to share a short story with you. I recently connected with a Sales Executive who just joined a very successful company that has been in business for over 15 years.  One of his first priorities was to hire three new sales people for his team.  He commented about how he had just lost a good sales candidate that he wanted to hire (after 4 weeks of investing his time in the interviewing process) because his company took too long getting back to her.  He also shared that the company still uses email and spreadsheets as the primary technology for recruiting, communicating and tracking new employee hires.  Sound familiar?

So... do you want to see your future at work and at home? [Video]

Digital Transformation has been talked about for years. Some people see the big picture and can visualize why and what benefits they will receive from all the hard work and change necessary to move to the future.

Are you suffering from Digital Transformation Stress? 

It’s a rapidly changing world and digitization is having a huge impact on every employee, business and industry. The speed and scale of digital disruption as companies move from legacy infrastructure and evolve to innovative and emerging technologies, plus long work hours and less resources are causing many people to feel stressed out, anxious and overwhelmed as they navigate their way through this massive transformation. 

Most people don’t like change and accelerated change is even more stressful

What happens when you digitally transform your business and improve your customer's experience before your competitors? Your customers move their business to you from your competitors.  Your sales go up faster and your competitors sales go lower.

In the future, your coffee may soon be made and delivered by your favorite robot barista.  Wait… you can have it now by visiting CafeX in the Metreon shopping complex in San Francisco (as of January 2017).  And it costs less than a human barista making the same quality coffee at Starbucks, Peets or the other leading coffee chains.

"By 2020, every business will become either a digital predator or digital prey… The prey will remain Digital Dinosaurs, unable to evolve their proven business model until it’s too late”
- Forrester Research

In other words, NOW is the time for you, as a small or midsize business (SMB) to embrace Digital Transformation. Doing so will have a dramatic impact on your business and its bottom-line. It’s crucial that you evolve, stay relevant and use the right technologies to keep you competitive, make your people more productive and grow your business. 

Back in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was quoted as saying... "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." Such a profound quote. We can't help but wonder what JFK would have thought about today's speed of change.

Today, executives in every industry must keep up with the latest technology to give their customers faster, better quality experiences and services at a lower cost. We all know that Amazon and Uber/Lyft have disrupted their industries and changed the way we do business today.

But what about Healthcare? Physicians are burning out, patients dislike the healthcare experience, caregivers are overburdened, and out-of-pocket costs have exponentially increased out of control.

Recently, I was a guest speaker at one of our Healthcare Innovation Think Tank monthly meetings. The topic was on "Perspectives from Silicon Valley on Digital Health." Here are a few exciting things that are going on in HealthTech.