MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Does Your C-Suite Have Enough Digital Smarts?

Executive teams that understand how to wield the power of digital technologies are rare, but they deliver huge premiums in corporate growth and valuation.

There’s little doubt that the future of business is digital. Companies that are in the lead implementing digital technologies have radically improved their operational efficiency and their customers’ experiences. And, even more important, the new capabilities unlocked by digital technologies have allowed them to reimagine their purposes and their business models.

Having a digitally savvy top leadership team — that is, a team in which more than half of the executive members are digitally savvy — makes a huge difference. Our latest research shows that large enterprises with digitally savvy executive teams outperformed comparable companies without such teams by more than 48% based on revenue growth and valuation.

About the Author

Peter Weill is chairman and senior research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). Stephanie L. Woerner (@sl_woerner) is a research scientist at CISR. Aman M. Shah (@aman_m_shah) is a doctoral candidate studying business information systems at Bentley University.

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