Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation

How can businesses transform to achieve competitive advantage in a digital-enabled world? How can managers and leaders create a culture that supports lasting change through these transformations?Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is an in-depth guide for all those needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace. It sets aside traditional thinking and outdated strategies to explain what steps need to be taken for an organization to become truly agile, embed innovation and develop talent to succeed.This majorly revised second edition of Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation contains new material on the culture and mindset challenges of shifting at scale from linear to agile working, and using data effectively in organizational decision-making. Full of practical advice, examples and real-life insights from organizations at the leading edge of digital transformation including AirBnb, Amazon and Google, this book is an essential guide to driving success by becoming an agile and digital native business.

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ONE: The agile business; 01: The key forces for change; 02: How digital disrupts; 03: What's stopping you?; 04: Defining digital transformation and how an agile business is the foundation for it; TWO: Fast; 05: Operating in the 'ambiguity zone'; 06: Agile and adaptive methodology; 07: The agile innovation process; THREE: Focused; 08: The role of vision and purpose; 09: Agile strategy and planning; 10: Linking strategy to execution; FOUR: Flexibility; 11: Agile structures and resourcing; 12: Scaling agility; 13: Building the culture to move fast; 14: A blueprint for flexibility -- autonomy, mastery and purpose; 15: Digital-native talent; FIVE: Start small, scale fast and the transformation journey -- putting it all together; 16: Index