How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
Author: Gerald C. Kane
Subject: MIT Sloan Management Review; digital maturity; digital transformation; digital disruption; digital strategy; digital leadership; digital talent; business culture; business technology; workplace culture; future of work; Deloitte; digital DNA; Agile; Agile@Scale; collaboration; fail fast
Publisher: The MIT Press
9780262352291
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions—but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology. The authors argue that digital disruption is primarily about people and that effective digital transformation involves changes to organizational dynamics and how work gets done. A focus only on selecting and implementing the right digital technologies is not likely to lead to success. The best way to respond to digital disruption is by changing the company culture to be more agile, risk tolerant, and experimental.
The authors draw on four years of...