PRAISE FOR THE DIGITAL LEADER

“As a technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Raj Vattikuti has the ideal background to outline the steps for leaders to get results from their digital strategy. Ram Charan is one of the world’s most influential consultants who brings deep business insight and understanding of digital business leadership. Together Raj and Ram explain the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches and why standing still means failure. This book explains how leaders must think, operate with agility, develop deeper customer relationships, and appropriately use technology. It also emphasizes that to develop a digital strategy, leaders need to instill a culture to sustain a competitive advantage that provides a template to help business compete in a digital economy. This book offers a practical perspective from decades of partnering with various businesses across many sectors and outlines how to create value for your customers and business.”

—Jacques A. Nasser AC

“Leaders increasingly understand that it is how employees leverage technology that will drive outcomes that are enduring and self-correcting, not just transitory. Raj, a serial technology entrepreneur, has had vision and clarity on this distinction well before others did. Ram, a world-renowned business consultant, has been focused on cutting through complex business environments to help companies grow. This discourse on digital leadership is the best I have seen on creating lasting value and outcomes within enterprises by looking at things through a business lens. It’s about leveraging existing systems, data and applications through an accelerated, collaborative and bite-sized process to drive change.”

—Manoj Singh, Chief Operating Officer (Retired), Deloitte Global

“In their book, The Digital Leader, Raj and Ram simplify the approach to building new business models and provide an excellent framework for business leaders to unlock growth and deliver tangible results. I confidently recommend their framework and the Altimetrik approach, anchored in empowering employees to leverage technology that is driven by uniquely competent and talented executives to deliver real outcomes. It’s a great approach to focus on driving outcomes and bottom-line results!”

—George Zoghbi, CEO, The Arnott’s Group

“This book is a game changer—no longer will business leaders view the IT department as disconnected from digital imperatives. Data ultimately should determine the direction of business strategy, capital allocation, and how to assess competitive threats and opportunities. Raj and Ram present the business case for driving digital solutions through leadership and innovative IT platforms which keep the plane afloat while installing a new digital engine.”

—Dennis Carey, Vice Chairman, Korn Ferry; Founder, The Prium and CEO Academy

Digitally transform your organization, one manageable step at a time

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small, achievable steps that yield measurable, near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities.

You’ll learn how to find and choose between the digital enablement options available to you while discovering the tools you need to explain their value to stakeholders and get much-needed buy-in from executives, managers, and employees. You’ll also:

• Learn about the value of experimentation, continuous innovation, and how to generate dramatic transformation by using incremental changes to your advantage
• Find out how to digitalize one piece of your business at a time, instead of taking on a gargantuan transformation all at once that is destined for failure
• Discover how to straddle the technology and business worlds and help define each of them to the other

A can’t-miss resource for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Digital Leader also belongs in the bookshelves of IT and data professionals seeking to maximize their impact on the businesses around them.