Course : Digital transformation: lessons from the Web giants

Take inspiration from GAFAM to rethink your digital strategy

Seminar - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. GWE
Price : 1850 € E.T.

Digital transformation: lessons from the Web giants

Take inspiration from GAFAM to rethink your digital strategy



With this seminar, go behind the scenes of the Web giants and discover how their technological, managerial and organizational approaches can inspire your own digital transformation. A hands-on immersion to anticipate, innovate and stay competitive.


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Seminar in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. GWE
  2d - 14h00
1850 € E.T.




With this seminar, go behind the scenes of the Web giants and discover how their technological, managerial and organizational approaches can inspire your own digital transformation. A hands-on immersion to anticipate, innovate and stay competitive.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understand the IT, organizational and managerial practices of the Web giants
Analyze the technological, organizational and cultural levers of the Web giants
Understanding pure players through the "What Would Google Do?
Adapting the practices of the Web giants to the context of French organizations
Critically assess the risks associated with the approaches of the digital giants
Applying agility, DevOps and lean management for a successful digital transformation

Intended audience
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Prerequisites
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Course schedule

1
User-centered design

  • Winning the battle for attention with UX, design thinking and disposable interfaces.
  • Deliver a seamless experience: speed, availability, simplicity at every level.
  • Integrate continuous feedback: A/B testing, analytics, canary releases, perpetual beta.
  • Adopt a Lean Startup approach: MVP, customer discovery, pre-project product.
  • Reconciling performance and privacy: trackers, data, informed consent.

2
New IT architecture paradigms

  • Design device agnostic applications, from mobile to augmented reality.
  • Create rich interfaces: SPA, PWA, native or hybrid apps depending on usage.
  • Developing with open APIs: API First, RESTful, microservices and security.
  • Reinventing architecture: cloud-first, open source, low-code, no-code, SaaS.
  • Choose your model: total rupture or upward compatibility, depending on your context.

3
Cloud architectures and resilience

  • Design sober, massive, resilient datacenters, "design for failure".
  • Adopt the distributed cloud: asynchronous, scalable, fault-tolerant.
  • Integrate cybersecurity: SSL, MFA, Zero Trust approach at all levels.
  • Study the cases of Google, Netflix and Amadeus for their infrastructure choices.

4
Security and Advanced Operations

  • Using AI for security: detecting threats and anomalies.
  • Automate IT: implement infrastructure as code.
  • Integrated monitoring: visibility and anticipation.
  • Deploying DevOps: working together for smooth CI/CD and deployment.
  • Take inspiration from Facebook, Toyota and the pioneers of agility for ops.

5
Silicon Valley culture

  • Encouraging rapid innovation: hackathons, fail fast, Singularity University.
  • Capitalize on field experience: learn by doing, craft spirit.
  • Set up mentoring, code reviews, coding dojo and peer programming.
  • Take inspiration from public startups: beta.gouv.fr and other government incubators.
  • Cultivate the desire to innovate continuously, without fear of failure.

6
Agile methods for excellence

  • Pull-flow management: kanban, WIP limitation and blockage resolution.
  • Apply lean principles: simplicity, customer value, waste reduction.
  • Deploy a DevOps culture: collaboration, automation, CI/CD.
  • Industrialize IT with "infrastructure as code" and integrated monitoring.
  • Take inspiration from the giants: Facebook, Toyota and other agility pioneers.

7
An atypical management model

  • Organizing teams into feature teams, guilds, tribes: the Spotify model.
  • Promoting autonomy: lean management, empowerment, liberated companies.
  • Explore holacracy and sociocracy as hierarchical alternatives.
  • Implement horizontal management, based on trust and mission.
  • Align product vision, responsibilities and distributed leadership.

8
The twilight of GAFAM?

  • Rethinking tech in the face of climate change: digital sobriety, the end of solutionism.
  • Regulating data: RGPD, privacy, the end of systematic advertising targeting.
  • Criticize addictive models: algorithms, screens, the attention economy.
  • Questioning the financial power and ethics of GAFAM.
  • Supporting open, ethical and decentralized alternatives.


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