Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology

''Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business
Transformation Through Technology ''

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A: SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................1
PART B: ADDRESSING EACH CATEGORY.............................................................................2
PART C: LEARNING FROM BOOK............................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

PART A: SUMMARY
The book Driving Digital: The leader’s guide to business transformation through
technology is closely linked to digital transformation over the years. In this book, there is
presence of different theoretical concepts related to significance of digital transformation to
business offered an actual game plan for purpose of driving the digital transformation. It has
stated about transformation imperative and at beginning of case and continuing for the digital
transformation for avoiding obsolescence. Each company has plan for updating technologies,
products and business processes but in the present scenario, digitalisation is on race. The
individuals who were charged through leading the company’s technology driven change, intense
pressure due to correct path is unclear.
Further, until chapter 7 it has shown practices engaged in digital transformation and
offering of relevant examples that drive home the points. It has also described about business
requirements to initiate through creating a digitally driven IT company and also utilizes the agile
practices driven through market and customer feedback. In the similar series, there is description
that how to create alignment of the organisation through instituting data driven and digital
practices in other enterprise parts. It comprises product development, Sales, Marketing and
Finance. Henceforth, there is discussion of significant culture role in transformation program
laying focus on requirement to gain the support of stakeholder group i.e. Executive team, CEO,
Board, employees and management. For purpose of driving digital, there is presence of detailed
aspects to formulate the digital strategy, transforming IT and business practices (Sacolick, 2017).
Driving digital has absence of better time as cycles of technological change directly
appear to accelerate. In the present scenario, it seems that if business has absence of blare related
to commitment of forward thinking to Big Data, artificial intelligence, Internet of things or
Cloud. The business and information technology is in tight embrace within 20th century and
consideration and growth momentum in the 21st. The similar pattern of decreasing size and cost,
raises power along with adoption of innovative techniques to continue to hold well in 21st
century. In this, information age directly seems enamoured of its success and even there are
numerous guides for helping business to attain success for driving gains and to observe progress
via digital transformation (Brown, 2017). Numerous leaders information technology is highly
cost centre first along with unreliable guarantor for success in the future.
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It has been stated that one who had stayed in transformation is capable for demonstrating
the best practices as success path as this book consists of different examples that what could not
be done. The businesses care through demonstrating strategic advantage and growth in top line
revenue for smarter decisions as well. There is also representation for those who serve as CTO,
CIO and in other leadership role with requirement of work with code or legacy systems that is
created originally. With reference to critical errors that different leadership positions make with
reliance on spread sheet and database silos are not taken lightly. The best way to attain the
strategic objectives of organization could be done via process and technology.
The book has also inhibit the components related to modern digital world and all the
prospects of digital thinking that can be directly related to any business activity. The book has
included various digitally driven decision making process that a leader can adopt for any critical
decision making process. All the contents that directly suggest the involvement of digitally
driven techniques are framed to align with different leadership activities also.
The book has generated all its suggestions highly based on practicality and ease of
implementation and execution of every detailed plan. It has also provided the selection of
management activities to increase customers’ opportunities and value to the organization with
the help of innovative techniques taking into consideration to data sciences.
Similarly, the content of book has provided all the elementary function of supporting
agents that are required within an organization to conduct a digital based activity and operation.
It has laid its focus on building a suitable team of operation by formulating different
management and leadership techniques and models. The book is highly interesting in generating
its lessons inclining towards the development of agile culture to facilitate all the digital driven
activities. It has recommended different systematic process for leaders to manage manpower.
The leadership program given in book has highlighted the importance of digital
technologies to perform processes. It has focused on the advantages of using technologies such a
different business software to gain cost effectiveness and to cope up with time constraints. There
is recommendation for leadership’s four step process such as getting the IT team ready with
different digital practices, propelling innovation and investment, developing the foundations for
digital execution and driving digital culture and growth. The book has suggested the processes of
team building capabilities with respect to the management, execution of all digital driven
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