Pre-conference workshop at 2015 Museums and the Web Conference, Chicago, USA with Dana Mitroff Silvers @dmitroff and Emily Lytle-Painter @museumofemily
Catalyzing Change: Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation
1. Catalyzing Change:
Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation
Museums and the Web | April 8, 2015 | Chicago, IL
Tweet with us using hashtag #MWchange
Emily Lytle-Painter: @MuseumofEmily
Dana Mitroff Silvers: @dmitroff
Carolyn Royston: @caro_ft
3. Let’s warm up!
Members of the United States Army 16th Infantry Regiment gathered around a campfire in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition.
Public domain image from Wikipedia.
4. Context for today
How is digital making us change how our
organizations need to function?
5. Context for today
How is digital making us change how our
organizations need to function?
How to kickstart a digital transformation process
and introduce different mindsets for working and
collaborating?
6. What is digital transformation?
Changes and challenges associated with digital
technology, across all aspects of business.
7. How to make it happen?
Leadership
and Vision
Audiences
Staff
Operations
16. Quick interviewing tips
● Avoid binary or leading questions
● Allow space for silence
● Follow the story and emotions
● Take notes
● Always ask WHY
17. Interview your partner + take notes
“What are the biggest challenges around digital in
your organization?”
“Tell me a story about a digital project that you felt went
extremely well.”
“Tell me a story about a digital project that you felt did
not go so well.”
5 minutes x 2
38. Make a plan
● Do an empathy interview of a colleague who drives
you crazy
● Find a buddy and a champion to build your
confidence
● Brainstorm solutions with a colleague
● Your ideas?