Book description
Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change.
In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language and compelling framework to help them assess it and guide them in responding. They don't know how to think about their digital business model.
In this concise, practical book, MIT digital research leaders Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide a powerful yet straightforward framework that has been field-tested globally with dozens of senior management teams. Based on years of study at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), the authors find that digitization is moving companies' business models on two dimensions: from value chains to digital ecosystems, and from a fuzzy understanding of the needs of end customers to a sharper one. Looking at these dimensions in combination results in four distinct business models, each with different capabilities. The book then sets out six driving questions, in separate chapters, that help managers and executives clarify where they are currently in an increasingly digital business landscape and highlight what's needed to move toward a higher-value digital business model.
Filled with straightforward self-assessments, motivating examples, and sharp financial analyses of where profits are made, this smart book will help you tackle the threats, leverage the opportunities, and create winning digital strategies.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Building the Next-Generation Enterprise
- 1. What Is the Digital Threat—and Opportunity?
- 2. Which Digital Business Model Is Best for Your Future?
- 3. What Is Your Digital Competitive Advantage?
- 4. How Will You Connect Using Mobile and the Internet of Things?
- 5. Do You Have the Crucial Capabilities to Reinvent the Enterprise?
- 6. Do You Have the Leadership to Make Your Transformation Happen?
- Conclusion: Putting It All Together
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: What's Your Digital Business Model?
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2018
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633692718
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