Top 10 Signs You're Not A Digital Business

You've probably been hearing or reading the term "digital business," and some of you may be asking: What is it exactly? It's about companies in a range of industries changing the way they do business, especially with customers, using a range of digital technologies and approaches: mobile apps, data analytics, social networking, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, agile development. The movement started with the likes of Netflix in movie distribution and Amazon.com in retail, but no industry is untouched. Think of the digital innovations already changing the hotel, insurance, healthcare, media, automotive, energy, banking, and real estate industries, to name just a handful.

Does your company pass digital business muster? Or is it a laggard, an also-ran, a non-believer? To help you make that assessment, we bring you:

Top 10 Signs Your Company Isn't Cutting It As A Digital Business

10. Your company's App Store is run by Pop, a 70-year-old guy wearing an apron.

9. Your mobile strategy consists of upgrading the security on your executives' BlackBerry Curves.

8. Your e-commerce site has less customer appeal than a Woody Allen Kindercare Center.

7. Your analytics chief asks the janitorial staff to help with data cleansing.

6. Your business model eschews click-through marketing in favor of box tops.

5. Your CMO thinks Badoo and Tumblr are social diseases.

4. Your last "killer app" was written in Fortran.

3. Your data science team is buying its promising new big data sets from a Nigerian prince.

2. Your CIO thinks NoSQL is a movement to ban the likes of "Porky's Revenge" and "Weekend At Bernie's 2."

1. Your website gets fewer hits than the bong on Justin Bieber's private plane.

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