Today, ‘Digital’ is a burning topic for most organizations. How many care for digital transformation?
According to a Gartner survey, 87 percent of senior business leaders say digitalization is a company priority, yet only 40% of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale.
Digital Transformation is easier said than done. There are a lot of obstacles that CIOs face, bundled with the pressure to launch digital changes to create a competitive advantage.
The books that we have listed, below will not only enrich your knowledge of Digital Transformation but also provide you with insights into the challenges companies face and how your company can learn from them.
1. See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence (Management on the Cutting Edge)
Author: George Day and Paul Schoemaker
This book talks about the tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence.
Business instability has become the new normal, and a company’s existence depends on alert leadership that foresees risks, recognizes opportunities, and acts fast when the time comes.
The authors show how to manage the precious resource of attention. He talks about how to notice weak signals and distinguish them from background noise. He also demonstrates how to respond strategically before competitors can, using real-world examples from Adobe, MasterCard, and Amazon.
The authors show us how to foster vigilance and agility throughout your organization, the rewards being higher profits, more growth, and longevity for your company.
2. Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
Author: Tom Siebel
Why should you read this book?
So Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is real.CIOs,CTOs,CMOs also feel
In this book, you’ll learn how new technologies are disrupting business and government and how your company can harness this disruption to transform itself.
The combination of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of things is altering the way we work in the twenty-first century. The author shows you how these technologies are driving digital transformation and gives you a road map for sizing up today’s opportunities.
The authors show how companies such as Enel, 3M, and the U.S. Department of Defense are applying these technologies to stunning results and thriving in today’s new digital age.
3. Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead
Author: Tony Saldanha
Why should you read this book?
In this book, the author provides you with a five-stage model for executing a digital transformation. As a former vice president of IT and shared services for Procter & Gamble, the author outlines why digital transformation fails.
Why do they fail? It’s not due to innovation or technological problems. It’s the details. A lack of clear goals and a disciplined process for achieving those transform fall off track.
It’s critical to become the next Netflix, not the next Blockbuster, amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution when the barriers between the physical, digital, and biological worlds are merging. The author explains how digital transformation can be effective rather than an existential threat, using dozens of case studies and his own experience.
4. The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation (Management on the Cutting Edge)
Authors: Gerald Kane, Anh Nguyen Phillips, Jonathan Copulsky, and Garth Andrus
Why should you read this book?
You’ll learn in this book that digital disruption is all about people. Changes in organizational dynamics and work processes are required for successful digital transformation.
The term “digital transformation” refers to the organizational changes that are required to harness the potential of technology. You can adapt fast to digital disruption by concentrating on an organization’s people and procedures.
Your company can compete with digital disruption by transforming its culture to be more agile, risk-tolerant, and experimental.
Drawing upon four years of research, surveying more than 16,000 people and conducting interviews with managers at such companies as Walmart, Google, and Salesforce, the authors introduce the concept of digital maturity and how every organization needs to understand its “digital DNA” to stop “doing digital” and start “being digital.”
5. Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation
Authors: George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee
Why should you read this book?
In this book, you’ll take steps toward becoming a “digital master,” no matter what organization or industry you are in.
The author explains the phrase “going digital” is relevant for industries beyond tech, media, and entertainment.
These technologies, such as mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing, have profoundly altered the corporate landscape. The authors show how companies in the financial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries are leveraging digital to obtain a strategic and competitive advantage.
The book shows what it takes to become a “digital master” based on research of 400+ worldwide organizations, including Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, and Nike.
It will help you better communicate with your consumers, digitally enhance processes, build a digital strategy, and regulate your digital activities.
6. Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
Author: Sunil Gupta
Why should you read it?
In this book, you’ll learn digital transformation has become a necessity with the widespread threat of disruption.
The author discusses how the New York Times has built a successful digital product behind a paywall, how Best Buy has altered its business in the face of Amazon’s threat, and how John Deere has constructed a data analysis division to supplement its farm equipment business.
7. Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology
Author: Isaac Sacolick
Why should you read this book?
In this book, the author explains that updating products, technologies, and business processes is no longer enough. The race is now on for everyone to become a digital enterprise. If you have been charged with leading your company’s digital transformation, the pressure has become intense and the correct path forward is unclear.
The author shares the lessons he’s learned over the years as he has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations. With thorough research, the author examples of how to formulate a digital strategy, drive culture change, bolster digital talent, develop innovative digital practices, and pilot emerging technologies. This book will give you the digital practices needed to catapult your organization into next-level success.
8. The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age
Author: Jill Dyché
Why should you read this book?
For business executives, IT managers, and department heads who want to learn how to use IT as a strategic partner to the business, this book provides a framework and useful examples of digital transformation success.
9. The Digital Transformation Playbook
Author: David L. Rogers
Why should you read it?
In this book, you’ll be able to rethink your business for the digital age. If your business started before the Internet, you’ll have the playbook for transforming in a digital economy.
The author argues digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about upgrading your strategic thinking. Based on a decade of research, teaching at Columbia Business School, and consulting for businesses around the world, the author shows how pre-digital-era companies can reinvigorate their game plans, capture the new digital opportunities, and rethink their underlying assumptions in five domains of strategy: customers, competition, data, innovation, and value.
The author illustrates every strategy in this playbook with real-world case studies from Google, GE, and Airbnb. With practical frameworks and nine step-by-step planning tools, the author shows how legacy businesses can transform to thrive in the digital age and drive profitable growth.
10. Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and Yourself
Author: Mark Raskino and Graham Waller
Why should you read it?
First-hand accounts and advice from top business executives, along with Raskino and Waller’s insights and research, give readers practical advice on how to reinvent their organizations to take advantage of the digital revolution.
These books offer a wide variety of insights from various leaders from different industries.
With different strategies for not only different industries but different companies, we hope you find a lot of key takeaways to meet your company’s end goals and objectives. Despite the different strategies, there is one thing that resonates, no matter which book you read, and that is the warning that: digital transformation is not approaching, but it is already here.
We wish you a happy learning.
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