Digital maturity: towards a strategic approach

Ask yourself three questions.First, how would you rate your practice's digital maturity?Second, where would you like your practice to be on a digital maturity scale?Third, how useful do you find the concept of 'digital maturity'?Let's take the last of these questions first.Sociologists call the period we are currently living in 'late modernity'.They depict it as characterised by rapid technological change along with a prevailing assumption that the more digitally advanced society becomes, the better. 1 An aspect of this mindset is the idea that organisations should progress, through recognisable 'stages', from the technological Stone Age to a state where technology use is maximised, delivering efficiencies, return on investment, and (in health care) benefits for patients. 23]456