Too often, digital initiatives fail because they are oversized, tech-heavy, and disruptive to existing operations. There is a better way, and it’s built on an agile, engineer-minded approach driven by practitioners. The book introduces a Digital Business methodology which is a guide for the business and engineering teams, data scientists and data analysts to work together for end- to-end security, compliance, quality, and reliability. It is supported by real world examples of how a business digital platform is created and how it helps to bring the speed, scale, and consistency by leveraging the Digital Business methodology.

In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show readers how to identify and implement bite-sized projects that are aligned with key business priorities. Understanding the current digital enablement landscape will help business leaders reveal their value to stakeholders and drive engagement, buy-in, and tool selection. Digital Simplified lays out this process with real-world case studies. Readers can also:

- Learn about elements required to achieve outcomes with speed, focusing on solving current business pain points with simplicity and an emphasis on digitalization and creating a single source of truth.

- Discover how to bring together the key components of a Digital Business methodology leading to a collaborative culture across business and engineering teams, data scientists and data analysts for end-to-end security, compliance, quality, and reliability.

- Understand how a technology platform brings Digital Business methodology leveraging and rationalizing existing technology and new tools like Snowflake and Databricks within a customer environment to bring consistent outcomes with speed without disruption.