Organizational Transformation
Technical Leadership in an Evolving Health Care Climate
For technical leaders, an acumen for change management may be more important than specific software skills.
The Digital Leadership Initiative explored the growing use of digital technologies in the business landscape. Through a series of annual reports, blogs, articles, and case studies, the exploration examined how companies cultivate opportunities and address risks in a fast-moving, digital market environment.
As more companies strive to develop new digital capabilities, many are making significant changes to their organizational culture, strategy-making process, and talent management efforts. These shifts raise important questions about what it means to lead a digital business. These questions, and more, are the focus of MIT SMR’s Big Ideas Digital Leadership Initiative.
Research and analysis for this program is in collaboration with Deloitte Digital, which also provided financial support.
For technical leaders, an acumen for change management may be more important than specific software skills.
Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin explains how modularity affects team structures.
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To reach millennials, companies are turning to social media micro-influencers as brand ambassadors.
Leaders can foster stronger collaboration by using digital platforms to increase employee diversity.
Enterprise social media is most effective when both cultural and IT factors are addressed.
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As more and more work is done by technology, lifelong learning will be the key to employment.
Successful digital transformation depends on risk-taking, communication, and tolerance for failure.
Digitally maturing companies take a culture-driven, bottom-up approach to digital transformation.
A proactive approach can defuse the internal politics that often derail digital maturation.
Understanding the characteristics of a winning digital strategy is the key to developing one.
Digitization alone doesn’t make your company “digital” — but these five guiding principles can help.
Companies focusing on technology are missing a key driver of digital transformation: talent.
Health care companies are using digital tools to put doctors’ focus back on patients.
For CarMax, digital business isn’t about the tech — it’s about the teams.
Digitally maturing companies are achieving success by increasing collaboration, scaling innovation, and revamping their approach to talent.
An infographic provides highlights of the MIT SMR/Deloitte Digital 2017 digital business report.
Fuse pairs engineers and scientists with providers and patients to improve health care.