Tuesday 23 June 2020

Q&A on the Book Leveraging Digital Transformation

Key Takeaways

  • The 2nd machine age offers many possibilities, but it takes unleashed minds, great leadership, and collaboration to leverage them.
  • Success in digital transformation requires mastering the full digital transformation success formula and not a part of it.
  • Business executives should lead digital transformation with the vital contribution of IT executives, and not the other way around.
  • Businesses should have clear visions and facilitate people's self-transformation to create true missionaries for their successful transformation.
  • Every business implementing digital transformation should invest in their leaders first.
  • The book Leveraging Digital Transformation - Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization by M. Nadia Vincent is a guide for implementing digital transformations. It explores how to lead a digital transformation, how to engage people into the transformation, and what can be done to enable digitalization and innovation.
    InfoQ interviewed M. Nadia Vincent about the digital transformation success formula, the possibilities the digital and machine age provides, what to expect from leaders during digital transformation, how to have people participate in defining the mission and manage people's experiences in change projects, and driving technology choices by business needs.

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  • https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-leveraging-digital-transformation/