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Balancing Profit and Purpose with Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products.

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To Make Digital Transformation Work, Look Deeper

Chief Executive

In other words, organizations that are able to look deeper into critical business dimensions such as strategy, operations, people and technology will effectively succeed in the digital age. Traditional players struggle to keep up with digital businesses that are designed to be more fluid and responsive (i.e.,

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 A post-mortem was conducted that pointed to a lack of organizational alignment, internal politics, and a lack of technical competence that hindered its ability to transform.

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How To Do Digital Transformation The Right Way

Chief Executive

Major sectors of manufacturing are embracing digital transformation for their own reasons and at different paces. But there are some common best practices for these varying industries as they sink hundreds of billions of dollars into their operations in order to optimize new technologies under what’s become known as Industry 4.0.

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If You Haven’t Started Your Digital Transformation, It’s Not Too Late

Chief Executive

Effective digital transformation has emerged as a significant concern for almost all organizations in recent years, expedited by a variety of pressures including a global pandemic that stressed company processes to their limits and shifting consumer demand for seamless service anytime, anywhere.

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12 digital transformation best practices with examples

Walk Me

With generative AI and other digital technologies gaining faster traction than ever, successful digital transformation best practices are more critical now than at any additional time in history. Why are digital transformation best practices essential?

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Change Management in Digital Transformation (Get it right!)

Walk Me

Change management in digital transformation is everything an organization does to help its teams adopt new technologies. Successful digital transformations rely on the employees to lead the changes, not the executives. What is change management in digital transformation? Why bother to learn a new system?