Be The Five - Digital Confidence: A simple process for digital success
Digital is everyone’s job. If you think digital is something you can leave your IT department to manage then you will never harness its true power. The best companies today bring digital into everything they do. They use it to innovate, they use it to increase profits, and they use it to create a better culture and happier workforce. If you want to grow and evolve on a career or business level, then there is no hiding from digital.
Yet leaders who aren’t from technical backgrounds are often hesitant about stepping up to digital challenges or getting involved in digital at all. They feel out of their depth, and terrified of getting it wrong publicly or wasting money.
And with good reason: 95% of all digital projects fail to deliver value.
This book will teach you a simple, repeatable process that will give you the confidence to ensure you are in the 5% that gets it right, especially if you’re not from a technical background.
Richard Godfrey is the IT outsider. He’s self-taught. He speaks your language. He joins up the work of leadership teams with their own IT departments for the benefit of the business as a whole. In this book, he shares 5 easy steps to successfully navigate any digital project.
So now you have no excuse.
“***** 5 Stars
I like data... and liking data I’ve read a lot of technical books on the subject. Every so often I read a book from a “business person” who stumbled through the looking glass into IT/data world and has converted to the true faith
This is the first time I read that book so free of hype and straight talking
Richard Godfrey’s book Be The 5 is an every-mans look at the 4th industrial revolution focusing on the public sector; it shows vital importance of managerial data literacy to the coming revolution
At its core the book is a call to arms to embrace digital, AI and data. What is refreshingly is it is not just a manifesto on futurism but comes with how to run such a project if you take up the call
I’ve learned agile and Dell EMC methodology. Agile started as a manifesto of simplicity and grew. Be 5 is similar a lot of common sense in few pages on how to IT. Though it assumes a non technical viewpoint and I like is it feels a very for dummies style with what I can recognise as the same call for sanity that started agile in a non-sane IT world
If your a small business owner or a non IT manager looking into the jargon fuelled world of IT this will help a lot
A book for the non IT looking to IT”