MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Building Digital-Ready Culture in Traditional Organizations

Getting your company into digital shape doesn’t mean dumping everything that has made it strong.

The good thing about culture is that it provides coherence and continuity. The bad thing about culture is that it can root a company in past practices that no longer fit a changing world.

For many legacy companies, culture change is the biggest challenge of digital transformation. How can a company become more agile and innovative without alienating its best employees or wrecking the best of its existing practices? And what does it mean to have a digital-ready culture?