Unified Model for Digital Transformation: Towards Unified Implementation of an Optimum Digital Transformation to Achieve Strategic Planning

This working paper offers a comprehensive unified model for digital transformation. Its objective is to support the Egyptian government’s efforts in this field. It aims to establish a standard model for the responsible government agencies by unifying the used concepts and the methodology for studying, planning and implementing digitalization initiatives to ensure that they achieve the goals thereof, and applying the unified model to a number of existing government initiatives to determine the status of each initiative and the extent to which it achieved its objectives.
There are many government initiatives for digital transformation in various sectors. Although these initiatives have been introduced and implemented by many government agencies, there is no unified model governing the implementation thereof. While some initiatives were successfully implemented and achieved their goals, most initiatives failed to achieve their goals due to many factors such as the confusion between digitalization and automation, and considering access to technology as a goal in itself, though by nature, technology is a means of success rather than a goal.