Have you read Eric's books?
How Eric Recommends Reading the Trilogy
Eric wrote these books in the order his thinking evolved: strategy first, then the realities of failure, and finally the root cause behind it all. But if he were picking them up for the first time today, he’d read them in reverse.
Start with Welcome to the Machine to understand the system; how the ecosystem of vendors, consultants, and clients is structurally built to fail. Then move to Welcome to the Jungle to see how those systemic forces play out in real transformations, through case studies and lessons learned. Finish with The Final Countdown to build the strategy and frameworks that help you navigate it all.
Read in this order, the trilogy moves from why failure happens, to how it happens, to what to do about it.
The Final Countdown: Strategies to Reach the Third Stage of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has become a buzzword in the business world, but many organizations find themselves struggling to move beyond the initial stages. In this groundbreaking book, Kimberling demystifies the process and provides a roadmap for reaching the third stage of digital transformation, where organizations experience true integration and optimization of digital technologies through people, process, and technology.
Welcome to the Jungle: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Transformation
In an era where 70% of digital transformation initiatives fail, this essential guide provides executives and business leaders with the strategic roadmap needed to navigate successfully through the treacherous landscape of modern technology adoption. Drawing from real-world disasters that cost organizations billions—from the NHS’s £10 billion IT failure to Queensland Health’s payroll catastrophe affecting 80,000 workers—this book reveals the critical lessons that separate transformation success from spectacular failure.
Welcome to the Machine: The Systemic Failures of Digital Transformation
Between 55 and 75 percent of all enterprise software implementations fail. The average cost overrun is 189 percent. Only one in four ERP projects is considered successful by the organizations that paid for them. These numbers have not improved in thirty years. This is not a coincidence. It is by design. In Welcome to the Machine, digital transformation expert Eric Kimberling pulls back the curtain on the trillion-dollar ecosystem of technology vendors, system integrators, and analyst firms that profits enormously — and systematically — from your organization’s failure. He calls it the machine. And once you see how it works, you cannot unsee it.