Digital Transformation of Leaders

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Digital transformation of leaders is a crucial area ignored or not considered at the business transformation programs agenda. Digital transformation requires top to bottom organizational change, which requires digital-savvy leaders and knows how to lead the digital programs. All programs are focusing on the digital transformation of the business or an organization. However, significantly less focus is on the readiness of leaders of an organization. It is leading to a lot of challenges in the success rate of business transformation programs.

Few months back, on a similar topic, we had a session with the title of ‘What is for ‘me’ in Digital Transformation? (otechtalks.tv)’ part 1 and ‘What is for ‘me’ in Digital Transformation? Part 2 (otechtalks.tv)’ without enough expertise of the leaders, shareholders, owners of the business on the digital area is becoming a challenge, and that’s why I like the article/research done by the MIT Sloan Management Review with the title “Leadership’s Digital Transformation.”

It leads me to ask some fundamental questions to the leaders, few to mention:

  1. How can leaders explain the vision for digital transformation?
  2. Do you have a chief digital officer role in the organization? If not, who is doing this role, and what are the challenges, responsibilities, and success standards for that position/role?
  3. How much of your budget is allocated for transforming the organization?
  4. Five to ten years from now, how will your organization be different?

Leader’s Traits:

  • Leaders need to have top traits that consist of interpersonal skills, cultural knowledge, and emotional intelligence to see the big picture of business transformation. Another essential quality is to have the ability to unlearn and learn so that they can lead the transformative situations required for organizations.
  • Leaders need to have a business understanding, taking the right decisions at the right time, focusing on achieving timely executions of initiatives with clear objectives.
  • Leaders need to have the right competencies to work freely, autonomously, and with limited involvement from others; however, when required, he is flexible and takes opinions from others. He must have integrity to be authentic, open and flexible, adaptable.

You’ll Learn:

It’s a beginners guide to learn the basics of the ML

  1. Key findings of the research
  2. The Purpose Maturity Index
  3. Traits of the digital leaders

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