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Watch The Red Hat CIO Interview

Chief Information Officer of Red Hat, Lee Congdon, spoke with Michael Krigsman of CXO Talk about ideas for balancing infrastructure and innovation in a dynamic and transformational environment. They addressed the challenges that most CIOs now face when in addition to keeping on top of infrastructure and cost reduction, they need to build strategic…

Digital IQ For Transformation Performance

The PwC Digital IQ analysis of nearly 2,000 business and technology executives shows that Digital IQ Leaders are twice as likely to achieve rapid revenue and profit growth as the laggards. To know what Digital IQ Leaders consist of, let’s look at the attributes that PwC identified: The CEO…

McKinsey's 9 Digital Transformation Questions

Becoming a digital enterprise involves changing the way you run your business. Answering these nine questions can help you understand how to break through the inevitable barriers, which will in turn improve your company’s odds of achieving a successful digital enterprise transformation. How well do you know where change…

Business Transformation Academy Interview

At the 2014 training programme, Rob Llewellyn spoke with Dr. Michael von Kutzschenbach about the SAP Business Transformation Academy.

Switzerland, UK & Sweden Lead Global Innovation Index

Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United States of America are the world’s five most innovative nations, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2015. Economies that outperform their peers for their level of gross domestic product are designated in the report as “innovation achievers.” The index covers…

How Smart Leaders Deliver Outstanding Value

While companies and consultancies learn what it takes to surf the digital wave, one fundamental prerequisite for business success is still leadership at the top. While CEOs need to be champions of digital and involved at a strategic level, they also need to consider the outstanding value their stakeholders are…

Digital Leadership & Governance Events

In previous issues of CXO Weekly, we shared the details of two forthcoming online events addressing digital transformation governance and leadership. Both provide transformation leaders with the opportunity to harness the latest thought leadership to enhance their transformation leadership capability, and both take place this week: 6 October 2015: Digital Transformation Leadership Run…

New Digital Disruption Book For 2016

I’m pleased to be involved with a new book, tentatively titled; “Phantom ex machina: Digital disruption’s role in business model transformation” to be published by Springer in late 2016. The book will explore the factors that make digital disruption possible, the effects of digital disruption on existing business models,…

How CIOs and HR Can Supercharge the Firm

When Gallup finds 87% of employees worldwide not engaged at work and InformationWeek reports 73% of small to mid-sized firms to be struggling with an IT talent shortage, many leaders should be worried. While much of the the C-suite understands the need to transform their businesses to mature customer…

Are You a Hyper-Connected Leader?

Like it or not, triggered by the wish for a better living experience and pushed by technological advances, hyper-connectivity is the incoming paradigm that will revolutionise our organisations and our lives. As hyper-connectivity intensifies, radical business restructuring will be required, yet only one in five respondents in an Economist Intelligence…

Stop Thinking Like a Job-Seeker

Many people who embark on the journey of becoming an independent consultant limit themselves to applying for fixed term contract roles through recruitment agencies. This results in them being trapped in a perpetual state of applying for new roles, which are often underpaid. Think it through for…

From the Digital 'Why' to the Digital ‘How’

In the words of a recent article titled The ‘Why’ Of Digital Transformation Is Clear. Now It’s Time For ‘How’. It’s vital to understand the need for digital business transformation, but the real challenge is in ‘doing it’ – and doing it well. But in the same way that it is easy to talk…

Design Thinking – An Essential Tool

Although Design Thinking was first used to make physical objects, it is increasingly being applied to intangible issues, such as how a customer experiences a service. Jon Kolko explains how design thinking has come of age with large organisations applying the principles of design to the way people work. Take this…

Storytelling for Transformation Leaders

In The Irresistible Power of Storytelling as a Strategic Business Tool we read how strategic storytelling has been enlisted to change attitudes and behaviours. But how can CIOs, CDOs and other transformation leaders of big data and other digital transformation initiatives become more effective through storytelling? In this 7-page…

The Truth About Transformation Behaviour

While innovative digital business transformation can do wonders for an organisation, the behaviour of everyone involved from ground-floor team members to the CEO, can and does make or break any hopes of success. There is no greater current example of improper behaviour than that of Volkswagen’s former CEO, who resigned last…

Digital Delight and its Key Ingredients

Most companies have yet to realise the digital delights that the world is talking about, although many are at least aware of the fact that they need to leverage new technologies to transform their business. According to this recent McKinsey article, leadership and talent are among the biggest hurdles…

Podcast – Featured Image – Test

About Leading Digital Transformation Leading Digital Transformation is a weekly podcast series produced by Rob Llewellyn and The Digital Transformation People. Rob interviews experienced practitioners, authors and thought leaders whose stories and experiences provide valuable insights for digital transformation success.

How to Measure Digital Transformation Value

While the likes of Uber disrupt an entire industry, not all firms will be disruptive in their digital transformation, but it’s vital that leaders don’t lose sight of the fact that digital transformation should at least add value to the business and not simply implement fashionable technologies. While many…

6 Steps to Digital Transformation

The Digital Capability Framework (DCF) is a strategic management toolset designed to help companies innovate and orchestrate digital business transformation. Last week in this article, Shaekhar Bhartiya summarised six key steps involved when applying the DCF in digital enterprise transformation. Read how DHL used the DCF to…

What BTM² Means to Business Transformation

BTM² (Business Transformation Management Methodology) is a four-phase holistic and integrated business transformation management methodology. BTM² is the first holistic business transformation management methodology that provides a framework with clear phases, deliverables and corresponding methods. It is a generic framework, which can be applied to different business transformation use…