MIT Sloan Management Review Article on 7 Key Principles to Govern Digital Initiatives

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  • Michael Wade, Nikolaus Obwegeser, Tom Voskes, Tomoko Yokoi
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2020

Research and survey data provide insights for how leaders can govern digital initiatives for maximum impact.

As digital disruption has become a major force across industries, organizations have responded with significant investments in digital transformation. Unfortunately, recent research suggests that most of these efforts fail to meet or exceed expectations.

Why?

The reality for many organizations is that digital transformation consists of an ungainly confederacy of digital initiatives revolving around new technologies, a few Skunk Works projects, and random acts of digital enablement.

About the Author

Nikolaus Obwegeser is a researcher at IMD’s Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. Tomoko Yokoi is a researcher at the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. Michael Wade is a professor and Cisco Chair of Digital Business Transformation at IMD in Switzerland and coauthor of Orchestrating Transformation: How to Deliver Winning Performance With a Connected Approach to Change (IMD, 2019). Tom Voskes is a managing partner at SparkOptimus.

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