CHAPTER 15Launching J&S Food's First Digital Food Product

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

—Alan Lakein

The staff at all J&S Food stores have been trained on the new digital business model and underlying infrastructure and tools. The go-to-market decision was made. The next and final step is to send the smart shopping bag to the digital market.

Nevertheless, sending a digital product and service to market should never be improvised; go-to-market strategies are needed.

This chapter discusses the key steps and approach that resulted in the smart shopping bag go-to-market strategy.

Transformation Journey's Fourth Stage: Deploy J&S Food's Digital Business

This is the last step of J&S Food's digital transformation journey; it's about sending to market the smart shopping bag digital product.

Figure 15.1 illustrates where the team stands in the company's digital transformation journey.

Schematic illustration of the deploy the digital business phase of J and S Food's digital transformation journey.

Figure 15.1: The deploy the Digital Business phase of J&S Food's digital transformation journey

As Figure 15.1 illustrates, digital business deployment is a three-step process including the following:

  • Defining the go-to-market strategy in terms of target market, value proposition, and distribution and then making the go-to-market decision
  • Understanding J&S Food's go-to-market strategy
  • Declaring J&S Food's digital business open

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