Building Better Organizations: How to Fuel Growth and Lead in a Digital Era by Claudy Jules.
Claudy holds an MS in Organization Development from American University, an MS in Management from University of Maryland College Park and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Initially he led Google’s Center of Excellence on Organizational Health and Change. He moved to Managing Director at Accenture Strategy, then jumping back as an advisory for Alphabet’s CapitalG. Today is a Partner at McKinsey.
Here, Claudy reveals a rather essential read for organizations to discover or better understand how a playbook can help drive success when deploying well designed digital strategies that positively impacts the organization, employees and ultimately their customers regardless of market.
Regardless of the length of engagements with digital transformations, organizations simply must get their elements planned correctly. This obviously begins with strategy. The organization must have the right leadership in place to drive digital transformation. They must also have or develop employees with the talents to make the transformation a success. Much of this can fail if the organization’s culture will not support change. This is especially true in today’s new digital transformation by AI.
AI is driving transformations faster than ever before
To start with the end in mind: organizational leadership must rethink existing value creation strategies. Claudy is outlining multiple directions to be extended across any organization. These include culture, digital leadership, talent, organizational design. I found similar lessons in Future ready: The four pathways to capturing digital value.
While written in mid 2022, readers should now in 2025 fully realize the impact of AI. This will help drive their digital transformation as new AI tools and services can indeed help advance their organization’s transformation.
In conclusion, Claudy has been receiving positive feedback on this book. He is showing how organizations can build custom playbooks for driving organizations forward.