Manual check-ins. Spreadsheet tracking. Reactive firefighting. You know there's a better way to run your program, but every time you try to carve out space to build it, another escalation pulls you back in.
Meanwhile, the industry is moving. AI announcements every week. New tools. New expectations from leadership. And you're sitting there thinking:
"I should be further along by now."
Maybe you just stepped into a digital CS role and you're realizing nobody handed you a playbook. You're supposed to "build a digital program", but what does that actually mean? Where do you start? How do you structure it? How do you sell it internally? How do you make it actually work for the customer?
Or maybe you're a senior leader watching your org fall behind. You've got smart people on your team, but they don't have the frameworks to move fast enough. You need them upskilled, and you need it to happen in weeks, not quarters.
Or maybe nobody has said the words "digital CS" to you yet. You just know your team can't keep up with the book, and leadership's answer so far is "use AI", full stop, no further instructions.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: self-study isn't going to cut it. You can read the two books that exist on this topic. You can listen to podcasts on your commute and hope something sticks. You can go to a conference and sit through one or two digital CX sessions sandwiched between 40 other talks.
None of that gives you a complete, actionable system.