The Digital Savvy Leader
- 21 Courses | 19h 24m 44s
- 40 Books | 60h 1m
- 7 Audiobooks | 32h 50m 53s
Digital transformation is changing business. Discover how to use tools and strategies to become an effective leader in today's digital economy.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
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4m
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Leading in the Digital Era
In the fast-paced digital world, it's been said that companies either disrupt or are disrupted. This puts pressure on leaders to do more than just keep up. In this course, you'll learn how to get ahead of the curve using digital technology.
8 videos |
42m
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Leadership Insights on Leading in the Digital Era
Is leadership in the digital era really so different? In many ways, yes. Today's leaders must become digitally literate, develop an adaptable mindset, and embrace new tools. And in conquering these digital challenges, they grow as leaders.
40 videos |
1h 42m
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MIT SMR: How Digital Transformation Disrupts Legacy Leaders
Digitalization has won, but has leadership lost? Our research strongly suggests that ongoing digital transformation fundamentally challenges how leaders are seen, experienced, and understood by their workforce. Effective leadership must be better balanced with affective leadership that openly embraces greater purpose, transparency, and authenticity.
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57m
MIT SMR: How Enterprise Augmented Reality Powers Front-Line Productivity in the 'Next Normal'
As companies aim to work faster, smarter, and better in the post-pandemic "next normal," augmented reality (AR) can help them achieve their digital transformation goals, moving beyond resilience to deliver new competitive advantage. Join us as Michael Campbell, executive vice president and general manager for augmented reality at PTC and Donald Brady, a principal with Deloitte's digital practice, discuss how companies are using AR to increase growth, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
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57m
MIT SMR: Understanding Decision-Driven Analytics
Making decisions with data too often comes down to finding a purpose for the data at hand - not finding the right data. If you want to make good decisions with data, start from the decision you need to make and then ask which data you need to make that decision. In this on-demand webinar, MIT SMR authors Bart de Langhe and Stefano Puntoni show how decision-driven data analytics results in better decision-making. They give examples of how data-driven often means answering the wrong question and offer steps for using data in a more effective way.
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58m
MIT SMR: Digital Transformation After the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to transform themselves almost overnight and overturned long-held assumptions about how we work, where we work, and the tools we use to get work done. How do we ensure that we capture the best of what we've learned and keep the digital momentum going in the post-COVID-19 world? In this on-demand webinar, MIT Sloan School senior lecturer George Westerman, coauthor of the MIT SMR article "The New Elements of Digital Transformation," discusses his research into what digital transformation means now and offers examples and guidance for leading in the new landscape.
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58m
MIT SMR: Leveraging Subscriptions for Platform Success
Most managers today understand the value of subscription and SaaS business models. But few understand how a subscription model can work in combination with marketplaces, platforms, and customer and supplier data to drive growth and enterprise value. In this on-demand webinar, MIT SMR author Barry Libert demonstrates how subscriptions - which make it easy for customers to obtain what they want - and marketplaces - which provide customers with choices - combine with data to ensure success in today's platform economy.
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57m
MIT SMR: Ransomware: Prepare, Respond, Recover
By now, you've likely seen alarming headlines about "ransomware." It's an encryption tool that hackers use to lock an organization's computer files or systems while demanding steep ransom payments to restore access, and attacks are becoming increasingly common for both large and small organizations. In this on-demand webinar, Lucas Bobroff, staff data architect for Pure Storage, offers an introduction to this growing global threat and discusses what businesses should do about it.
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56m
MIT SMR: Create a Data-Driven Culture for Real Business Rewards
Leveraging data for decision-making and next-generation customer experiences can serve as a clear competitive differentiator. But what's the best way to develop strategies for realizing business value with data? In this on-demand webinar, Ishit Vachhrajani, an enterprise strategist with Amazon Web Services, discusses how organizations can dramatically improve business outcomes by reinventing themselves as data-driven enterprises.
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52m
MIT SMR: A Digital Thread Capitalize on Your Data's Value
It's no secret: Today's businesses are generating more data than ever before. But for many organizations, effectively using that data for digital transformation remains challenging.
1 video |
57m
MIT SMR: Use Workplace Analytics to Build Trust and Empower Employees
Today's productivity-monitoring tools can help strengthen manager-employee relationships by increasing mutual trust and employee empowerment. Join us as Gabriela Mauch of ActivTrak and Michael Schrage of MIT discuss leveraging productivity analytics to generate new opportunities for collaboration and growth.
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58m
MIT SMR: Designing a Tailored Online Delivery Strategy
How we shop has been forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Retailers across the world are trying to figure out how to best serve the online consumer. For most, that means faster delivery; the speed with which retailers are able to deliver the goods has been synonymous with quality service. However, is speed really the most important factor? Pedro Amorim and Nicole DeHoratius, authors of "Online Shoppers Don't Always Care About Faster Delivery," offer research that suggests speed is only one dimension of delivery performance that matters to today's consumers. In this on-demand webinar, Professor Amorim presents their findings and offers suggestions for designing an optimal online delivery strategy for online orders.
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57m
MIT SMR: How Digital Multinationals Innovate Across Borders
Digital globalization has opened novel avenues for international expansion, yet rising geopolitical tensions and nationalism create new types of friction. In some markets, strong local forces, such as trade restrictions and nationalism, may limit the security and portability of digital assets, and raise uncertainty and risk. For new insights into how companies can navigate these challenges to pursue innovation in global markets, register to access this on-demand webinar featuring Satish Nambisan and Yadong Luo, coauthors of The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business (MIT Press). They explain how digital business strategies can help multinationals work across borders to innovate and create new value.
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58m
MIT SMR: Simplify and Accelerate Your Enterprise App Development
No question about it: Delivering new enterprise applications can be tough and time-consuming - and growing expectations for faster delivery make the job even more challenging. In this webinar, Lee Edney and Miguel Lopes of OutSystems discuss how the enterprise low-code approach can simplify and speed up projects for new digital experiences in the era of cloud-native applications
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52m
MIT SMR: Redefining Productivity in the Digital Era
Organizations in every industry today face an increasingly urgent business imperative: achieving genuine "healthy productivity." In this free, on-demand webinar, Gabriela Mauch of ActivTrak, Michael Schrage of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Melissa Swift of Mercer discuss how companies can focus on their business outputs and their people at the same time.
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58m
MIT SMR: Imagining Work Without Jobs
How can organizations achieve the agility required to thrive amid increasingly rapid change and disruption? And how can they better adapt to a wider array of both working arrangements and workplace technologies, especially automation? In this on-demand webinar, the authors of the new book Work Without Jobs (MIT Press) give their provocative answers to those questions. Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau argue that leaders must embrace a new "work operating system" that begins by dismantling the idea of the conventional job and jobholder. This practice is key to unlocking new options for organizing work and sourcing, rewarding, and engaging workers. In this webinar, you will learn: Why the future of work will increasingly rest on the deconstructed elements of jobs (like tasks and projects) and demand a granular view of workers not as jobholders, but as owners of a variety of capabilities and skills. The seven key elements of the new work operating system: what they mean for workers, the work ecosystem, and management. How to get started by identifying trigger points and opportunities to rethink work in your organization.
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56m
MIT SMR: The Business Case for Blockchain in the Enterprise
Blockchain's promise as an enterprise technology has been slow to take off, but that is about to change. Major businesses have worked their way through the challenges and are getting real value for their investments, whether in the supply chain, finance, or internal operations. In his new book, Enterprise Strategy for Blockchain: Lessons in Disruption From Fintech, Supply Chains, and Consumer Industries, author Ravi Sarathy lays out blockchain's unique capabilities and benefits for enterprises and provides a strategic roadmap for moving forward.
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59m
MIT SMR: Data and Disruption: Mastering AI and Machine Learning for Finance
"AI isn't coming - it's here. And it's already transforming the finance industry." Mastering AI and Machine Learning for Finance is your comprehensive guide to meeting this transformation head-on. In five insight-packed sessions, you'll learn how to harness the full potential of AI and machine learning from experts at MIT, Stanford, Babson, Deloitte, AICPA-CIMA, and Workday, including how to: Recognize finance's role in the AI productivity boom. Build effective data strategies with the help of new AI models. Use AI to automate your workflows and increase productivity. Understand coming AI regulations and their impact on finance. Train your talent for success in an AI-augmented workforce.
5 videos |
2h 14m
Manage AI Bias Instead of Trying to Eliminate It, powered by MIT SMR
Managing AI bias, rather than trying to eliminate it completely, acknowledges the complexities inherent in AI systems. Focusing on mitigation allows us to refine algorithms, maintain varied data sets, and implement ethical standards.
2 videos |
8m
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AI Is Helping Companies Improve and Redefine Performance, powered by MIT SMR
The purpose of measuring performance has expanded beyond efficiency. It now also includes strategic optimization of different business functions and outcomes. With huge advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), the purpose and practice of measurement are expanding even further. Research shows that in the future, leadership teams will use KPIs not only to monitor enterprise success but also to redefine and propel it. This course explains the evolution of KPIs and the importance of smart KPIs for organizational success.
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15m
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading with Digital TechnologyIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how executives can lead their companies through a process of digital transformation, and what emerging digital technologies mean for existing business models, processes, and jobs.
1h
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Digital Leadership Is(n't) DifferentThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders must blend traditional and new skills to effectively guide their organizations into the future.
11m
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan Copulsky
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Your Business Is Too Complex to Be DigitalIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how business leaders rethinking their strategies can take advantage of digital technologies.
5m
By Jeanne Ross
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on You're Going Digital - Now What?In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, understand how change really happens on the ground - and learn how to plan for it accordingly.
15m
By Paul Leonardi
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Data and Analytics at WorkIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll discover that building products that combine data with analytical capabilities requires following well established steps - and adding new ones, too.
1h 22m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review on Data and Analytics LiteracyThis collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review will teach you that before you can begin to embed data analytics in business processes, you need to understand what capabilities are possible.
15m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Data VisualizationThis collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that the tools that help visualize complex data have become incredibly sophisticated. But you want the right tool for the right job.
24m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Digitizing Products for Sustainability's SakeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses an emerging idea in sustainability by conceptualizing a combination of matter, energy, and information, and digitization of physical products and production.
5m
By David Kiron, Gregory Unruh
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Rebooting Work for a Digital EraThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how IBM reimagined talent and performance management.
16m
By Barbara Spindel, David Kiron
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Advantages of Digital MaturityThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that the higher a company's level of digital maturity, the better its financial performance is likely to be.
4m
By Andrew McAfee, Didier Bonnet, George Westerman
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The First Law of Digital InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that digital transformation is more of a leadership challenge than a technical one. Large organizations are far more complex to manage and change than technologies.
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By George Westerman
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Digital Platforms Have Become Double-Edged SwordsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that to build successful platforms that will stand the test of time, businesses must harness power without abusing it.
9m
By Annabelle Gawer, David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Choose the Right Digital Leader for Your CompanyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how striking the right competence-credibility balance for digital leaders depends largely on how the role of the CDO is defined in a particular company.
4m
By Michael Wade, Nikolaus Obwegeser
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Environmental Benefits of Digital DesignThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how digital advances in product design can boost companies' bottom lines and sustainability practices.
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By David Kiron, Gregory C. Unruh
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on It Pays to Have a Digitally Savvy BoardThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how having board members with experience in digital business is the new financial performance differentiator.
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By Jennifer S. Banner, Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner, Thomas Apel
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Common Traits of the Best Digital LeadersIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how leaders must develop new skills to effectively guide their organizations into the uncertain future of the digital age.
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By Gerald C. Kane
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The New Leadership Playbook for the Digital AgeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides practicable findings and specific recommendations readers can use to develop a new generation of leaders excited and well equipped to lead in the digital economy.
30m
By Benjamin Pring, Carol Cohen, David Kiron, Douglas A. Ready
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Digital Convenience Threatens CybersecurityThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how companies should act now to boost the cyber resilience of seamless digital services.
4m
By Paul Meerts, Rico Brandenburg
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Rules for Leading in a Digital WorldIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how organizations that have long been siloed and bureaucratic must become nimble and customer-centric, and command-and-control models must give way to distributed leadership. Times of rapid change call for a new leadership model.
6m
By Deborah Ancona
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Is the Right Group Leading Your Digital Initiatives?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses why companies shouldn't bottle up digital transformation in any one function.
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By Gerald C. Kane
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Managers Can Help Workers Tackle Digital DistractionsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how managers must not only give employees tools and training but also model the right behaviors themselves in order to regain focus in an ever-distracting digital world.
3m
By Brian Solis
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing Technology for the Post-Digital EraThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review forecasts four key technologies will drive the next wave of innovation and growth.
4m
By Paul Daugherty
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Digital Trust Drives Culture ChangeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how privacy is a right, not a privilege. But organizations and leadership often struggle when it comes to adapting their culture toward digital trust and stewardship.
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By Anne Buff, Anne Fealey, Chon Abraham, Ronald R. Sims, Sally Daultrey
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on 7 Key Principles to Govern Digital InitiativesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides insights for how leaders can govern digital initiatives for maximum impact.
9m
By Michael Wade, Nikolaus Obwegeser, Tom Voskes, Tomoko Yokoi
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Combating the Toll of Digital PollutionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how a deliberate plan can help avoid digital pollution when developing new products.
4m
By Radhika Dutt
BOOK SUMMARY
The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital TransformationIn The Technology Fallacy, the authors discuss ways in which companies can respond successfully to digital disruption. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
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Building Digital Culture: A Practical Guide to Successful Digital TransformationBuilding Digital Culture discusses how businesses can nurture a digital culture to thrive in the digital era. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Daniel Rowles, Thomas Brown
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The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital TransformationOffering managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions, this book explains why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.
4h 15m
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
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50 Digital Team-Building Games: Fast, Fun Meeting Openers, Group Activities and Adventures using Social Media, Smart Phones, GPS, Tablets, and MoreOffering fun, energizing meeting openers, team activities, and group adventures for business teams, this book will help teams and groups get comfortable with technology, get to know each other better, build trust, improve communication, and more.
2h 49m
By John Chen
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Digital AdaptationNothing is more frustrating than stubborn management entangled in dated workflows and inefficient processes. This practical book presents techniques and strategies that will help senior management understand the Web and adapt the business, culture, teams and workflows accordingly.
2h 27m
By Paul Boag
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Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, SecurityIncluding numerous pictures and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical personalities, this practical book provides a well-founded access to communication technology of computer networks, the internet and the WWW.
9h 31m
By Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack
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Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and InfluenceProviding an abundance of real-world examples and tips to help you create a path to success, this book explains how to take full advantage of everything the digital age has to offer, while avoiding common pitfalls that can damage your "digital legacy."
4h 39m
By Erik Qualman
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Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People BehindOffering a better understanding of how people with disabilities use technology, this book cites real-world case studies from healthcare to social science, and examines the emerging legal and cultural impact of inclusive design.
5h 44m
By Kel Smith
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Ethics for a Digital EraTimely and thought-provoking, this invaluable resource explores new methods and models for ethical inquiry in a digital world, and maps out guidelines for web-based news producers and users to conceptualize ethical issues and analyze ethically questionable acts.
3h 47m
By Deni Elliott, Edward H. Spence
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What the Digital Future Holds: 20 Groundbreaking Essays on How Technology is Reshaping the Practice of ManagementA collection of short, pithy essays written by both practitioners and academic experts, this book explores technology's foundational impact on management and centers on the evolving relationship between humans and cognitive technologies.
1h 23m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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When Innovation Moves at Digital Speed: Strategies and Tactics to Provoke, Sustain, and Defend Innovation in TodayÆs Unsettled MarketsPractical advice from experts on how to create, manage, measure, and improve innovation in and for today's digital markets.
3h 34m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital TurbulenceWith rich examples including Adobe, MasterCard, and Amazon, this essential resource offers tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence.
3h 25m
By George S. Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People AnalyticsIn The Data Driven Leader, the authors examine utilizing data to increase performance - through the lens of human resources. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By David Swanson, Jenny Dearborn
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The Lean IT Expert: Leading the Transformation to High Performance ITThis book aims to give insight into the reasons why you and your organization must consciously act to apply Lean principles to your IT organization.
8h 46m
By Niels Loader
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Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and YourselfDrawing on interviews with over 30 top C-level executives in some of the world's most powerful companies and government organizations, including GE, Ford, Tory Burch, Babolat, McDonalds, Publicis and UK Government Digital Service, this book delivers practical insights from those on the front lines of major digital upheaval.
3h 29m
By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital TransformationIn The Technology Fallacy, the authors discuss ways in which companies can respond successfully to digital disruption. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 37s
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Building Digital Culture: A Practical Guide to Successful Digital TransformationBuilding Digital Culture discusses how businesses can nurture a digital culture to thrive in the digital era. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 29s
By Daniel Rowles, Thomas Brown
Audiobook
The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Digital LeadershipThis audio edition provides leaders with the skills and confidence they need to transform their leadership, and in turn, their organizations, while also providing guidance to institutions-businesses, communities, and schools-on how to develop and nurture digital leadership.
2h 43m 30s
By Charlene Li
Audiobook
Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and YourselfThis audio edition delivers practical insights from those on the front lines of major digital upheaval.
6h 39m
By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino
Audiobook
Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business TransformationThis audio edition highlights how large companies in traditional industries-from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals-are using digital to gain strategic advantage.
8h 54m 53s
By Andrew McAfee, Didier Bonnet, George Westerman
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See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital TurbulenceThis audio edition offers tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence. When turbulence is the new normal, an organization's survival depends on vigilant leadership.
5h 15m 10s
By George S. Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Audiobook
The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital TransformationThis audio edition is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology.
8h 33m 14s
By Ahn Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading the Business
Becoming a successful business leader means more than just directing and motivating your people. It also requires understanding the business you're in and making sure that you're making decisions that will help your company meet its goals. In this Leading the Business Unit Benchmark, you'll be able to make a frank assessment of your current skills in strategic planning and execution, identifying your strengths and recognizing areas of weaknesses that will benefit from further learning and growth. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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