MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Don't Let Digital Obsession Destroy Your Organization

Today, there are innumerable medical technologies and specialists — and Big Pharma — available to help treat patients. However, while health care has provided immense good through its modern transformation, it has wrestled with several shortcomings, including making overly narrow diagnoses, addressing symptoms rather than root causes, and providing elaborate and expensive treatments. And these issues aren’t just contained to the health care industry.

Exemplified by the challenge of deploying effective multidisciplinary health teams, the shortcomings of health care transformation mirror the issues companies face in their digital transformations.

About the Author

Matthew Doan is a digital leadership coach, strategist, speaker, and host of the podcast The Rising Digital Leader. He’s also a leader within Boston Consulting Group’s digital practice and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is passionate about solving problems at the intersection of technology and human dynamics. His work, including his popular “Wednesday Wisdom” newsletter, can be found at https://matthewdoan.com.

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