Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future by Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani.
Paul is Global Managing Director with Strategy& and is a principal with PwC US. He is an adjunct professor of strategy at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and has served as an adviser to many nonprofit organizations. He holds a Masters in Management from Kellogg.
Mahadeva Matt Mani leads the PwC/Strategy& transformation platform. He is also a principal with PwC US. Matt holds a Masters in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
In Beyond Digital, Paul and Matt take readers on a deep dive across 12 organizations to learn how to succeed in navigating the challenges of digital transformation. And by digital, they address the following: the internet is 50 years old, IBM’s PC was introduced 40 years ago, Apple is 45 while even Google is 25. Getting ‘to’ digital is not enough anymore. especially in a post pandemic world. Paul and Matt are focusing on the new forms of digital competitive advantages. Your organization may feel like it is in the game, but perhaps you’re on the sideline. Some organizations may even be watching from the stands. they just do not realize how they missed their digital transformation.
Transform to Compete
In fact, some focus on the message that digital transformation is critical. Paul and Matt push that further by defining how your organization can find wins. So, post pandemi, every organization is looking for as many wins as possible. So, by embracing the digital transformation your organization must fully ingest and understand the new nature of competition, because it shifted as a result of the pandemic.
There are certainly compelling lessons for any organization to understand. In fact, many would be surprised at Philips’s transformation from a conglomerate to a single, health technology company. This included selling off their lighting business units. The insights and lessons by The Cleveland Clinic provides a view of a large, complex medical ecosystem that stretches from Cleveland to Abu Dhabi and London and back to Ohio.
There are many insights that I also found when reading: Competing in the Age of AI
Learn from a wide range of organizations
Paul and Matt are providing additional case studies extend to cover Microsoft, Adobe, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Hitachi, Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, STC Pay, and Titan. Their efforts then shift to organizational leaders and the need for seven imperatives for transformation.
Simply put, digital transformation will allow your organization to re-imagine their role in the new world. What would you like to see your organization achieve? Consider wiping the slate clean, as AI will be a driver for such initiatives. AI will empower organizations to become data and more importantly outcome driven.
In conclusion, Paul and Matt are providing deep insights to allow organizations to re-imagine their place in the world, create new value via ecosystems, and making your organization outcome-oriented. They also address the needed focus of leadership, which may disrupt your existing leadership’s approach to engaging their own employees. This has been a wonderfully insightful read and highly recommended.