DITS exam topics
Questions usually on these topics:
- Risk averse / Risk seeking / Risk Tolerant / Risk neutral
- Operational excellence
- Omnichannel delivery and support
- Scale / Incumbency / Resource advantages
- Customer journey & touchpoints
- Charging models Premium / Freemium
- Lean / Agile / Resilient / Continuous
- Business model v Operating model
- Educating shareholders
- Pestle for external analysis
- Digital technology
- Business Strategy
- Opportunity cost
- Parallel operating models
- Measurements – Effectiveness & Efficiency
- Customer & market relevence
- Customer analytics
- IT Strategy
- Funding mix
- Digital transformation
- Pestle / Vuca / OODA / FFA for strategic risk
- Digital business
- Digital readiness assesment
Short tips:
The 4 Strategic Approaches – when to use each
Customer/Market – Cust = Remaining value relevant & Market = Remain tech relevant
Operational excellence – Internal over 4 dimensions
Evolution – Agile on emerging tech
Social responsibility – Triple bottom line, purpose and employee fulfilment
Technology replacement modernization – Replace ageing tech
Sourcing strategy – Supplier relationships and contracts
Organisational agility – Adapt quickly
Organisational resilience – Anticipate, prepare, respond
Continuous organizations – Uninterrupted delivery of products and services
Lean organisations – Eliminate of waste
Simple automation – Service request
Complex automation – Sequence related eg. onboarding
Intelligent automation – Analysis of shifting contexts
Customer journeys – End to end customer journey
Omnichannel delivery – Across multiple channels on/offline
Customer analytics – Data driving strategic decision making
Customer 360 – Obtain data from multiple sources
Customer feedback – Real-time feedback to remain customer relevant
Pricing models
Free – Supported by other forms of revenue
Freemium – Basic is free
Tiered – Pro-level bundling/Not freemium
Dynamic/Variable – Varying prices
Vision – Define as group
Strategy – How to achieve purpose
Business models – Visualisation of customers & Value
Operating models – working of current activities & value streams
Digital Org – Org enabled by dig tech
Digital business – Activities using dig tech
Digital strategy – Using dig tech to achieve vision
Digital transformation – Significant improvement from using dig tech
Digital technology – Tech that digitizes (Scanner)
Information technology – make info available (smart app)
Operational technology – detecting monitoring (smart heaters)
Communication technology – highly accessible to users (wireless tech)
Business Case – Why of balanced strategic costs/benefits
Portfolio – Totality of investment to achieve strategic objectives
Parallel Operating Models
Cannibalism – Rapidly destruction & replacement
Erosion – Funds & eventually replaces
Concurrence – Co-exist independently
Synergism – Complementary sales channels
Disruptor or Distruption
Disruption factors – Fundamental shift in org operation
Ecosystem – Across multiple industries & markets
Industry/Market – Specific industry/market
Organisation – Disrupt itself
Leading metrics – Easy to influence
Lagging metrics – Impossible to influence
PESTLE analysis – Analyse external (Pol, Econ, Soc, Tech, Leg, Env)
SWOT – Analyse internal and external
4 Dimensions – Analyse internal
Capability maturity – Analyse internal capabilties
Digital readiness assessment – Analyse internal capabilities and practices
Service Offerings – Access to goods, resources & capaibilites
Strategic risk – Risks affecting strategic objectives
Education & Learning – All levels understand why and how, understand expectations
Leading digital transformation – Servant leadership, delegate and include in decision making
Digital mindset – Innovation/Adoption
Discontinuous innovation – Do something that completely replaces what came before
Managed Chaos/ Distributed Experimentation – Most successful in volatile environments
Incentive to innovate – Stakeholders are MOTIV8 to INOV8
Risk Appetite – embrace negative risk
Risk Posture – Overall approach
Risk Capacity – Total amount org tolerate
Risk Averse – overestimate negative risks/ underestimate positive
Risk seeking – underrestimate negative risks/ overestimate positive
Risk tolerant – Uninvolved
Risk neutral – long term approach