The Digital Leader: Demystifying Leadership in the Digital Transformation Era

The fast changing global technological advancements within the last decade has heightened the need in finding a framework that will assist in identifying effective leadership style in Digital Technology implementation and sustainability. Digital Transformation simply refers to the application of technology to improve a business process. This book aims at defining the impact of effective leadership in the concept of Digital Transformation following failures of such projects and propose sustainable solution applicable globally. The leader in this context of Digital Transformation is a change agent or someone leading the delivery and sustenance of the Digital Transformation solutions, including the change management processes which constitute the key reason for the project survival. Poor framing of the implemented Digital Transformation solutions has been identified as the key reason behind failure of such projects and strong leadership is central in getting this initiative right, the first time. Orchestrated change management process through right leadership was demonstrated in this book as the way to go. Though solutions for any digital transformation initiative are asset specific and not one-size-fits-all or plug-and-play; this book proposed a hybrid leadership style (visionary, innovative and strategic) as the effective leadership style for digital transformation implementation based on the findings of the research work. This book will serve as a quick reference tool for similar Digital Solution implementation and management elsewhere.