The Digital Leader

Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth

Ram Charan & Raj B. Vattikuti

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (July 20, 2022)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1119900085
ISBN-13: 978-1119900085

What people are saying about The Digital Leader

“As a technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Raj Vattikuti has the ideal background to outline the steps for leaders to get results from their digital strategy. Ram Charan is one of the world’s most influential consultants who brings deep business insight and understanding of digital business leadership. Together Raj and Ram explain the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches and why standing still means failure. This book explains how leaders must think, operate with agility, develop deeper customer relationships, and appropriately use technology. It also emphasizes that to develop a digital strategy, leaders need to instill a culture to sustain a competitive advantage that provides a template to help business compete in a digital economy. This book offers a practical perspective from decades of partnering with various businesses across many sectors and outlines how to create value for your customers and business.”

“Leaders increasingly understand that it is how employees leverage technology that will drive outcomes that are enduring and self-correcting, not just transitory. Raj, a serial technology entrepreneur, has had vision and clarity on this distinction well before others did. Ram, a world-renowned business consultant, has been focused on cutting through complex business environments to help companies grow. This discourse on digital leadership is the best I have seen on creating lasting value and outcomes within enterprises by looking at things through a business lens. It’s about leveraging existing systems, data and applications through an accelerated, collaborative and bite-sized process to drive change.”

“In their book, The Digital Leader, Raj and Ram simplify the approach to building new business models and provide an excellent framework for business leaders to unlock growth and deliver tangible results. I confidently recommend their framework and the Altimetrik approach, anchored in empowering employees to leverage technology that is driven by uniquely competent and talented executives to deliver real outcomes. It’s a great approach to focus on driving outcomes and bottom-line results!”

“This book is a game changer—no longer will business leaders view the IT department as disconnected from digital imperatives. Data ultimately should determine the direction of business strategy, capital allocation, and how to assess competitive threats and opportunities. Raj and Ram present the business case for driving digital solutions through leadership and innovative IT platforms which keep the plane afloat while installing a new digital engine.”

Overview

More and more, business leaders are realizing that it’s not the technologies your company uses that matter. It’s the way your firm’s leadership and front-line employees interact with and exploit those technologies as they experiment, iterate, and innovate that really distinguishes digital leaders from the also-rans.

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a renowned business guru and a visionary technology entrepreneur deliver an insightful and engaging roadmap to digital leadership for business leaders in all sorts of organizations. In the book, you’ll learn to take small, achievable steps that yield measurable and noticeable results in the near term on your way to transforming your organization from digital laggard to digital trailblazer.

The authors explain how to pinpoint bite-size projects in sync with your most important business priorities and demonstrate how those who straddle the worlds of technology and business can help define and implement those projects. They also introduce you to several real-world digital enablement tools and strategies, show you how to evaluate their fit with your company, and teach you how to work with them and incorporate them into your firm’s digital plan.

A must-read guide for business transformation leaders and advisors, The Digital Leader will also earn a place on the bookshelves of managers, executives, and other business leaders who seek to distinguish themselves and their companies through the intelligent, creative, and innovative use of the latest technologies to drive dramatic growth.

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