Digital Transformation and Business Leadership

Name: Digital Transformation and Business Leadership
Author: Bill Luton

Discover how business leadership and innovation fuel digital transformation.

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(upbeat instrumental music) Welcome to Digital Transformation, and Business Leadership. In these lessons, we'll explore the value of digital transformation, and uncover how business innovation relates to digital transformation. You'll also understand what digital maturity is, and discover a highly effective leadership style known as transformational leadership. Digital transformation is an undeniable truth in today's world. It's wide-reaching and affects every sector of the global economy as well as organizations, schools and homes. Its influence is noticeable on social media platforms where a message can be broadcast to the entire planet with just the touch of a key. Organizations are quickly accepting the integration of digital technology into everyday lives, even more so in the shadow of the COVID 19 pandemic. New companies and technologies sprouted or evolved quickly to meet record demand for quality video conferencing, telework, telemedicine, and other technologies needed for a workforce that suddenly went remote. Those changes aren't going away anytime soon. There's work being done in a new environment that will leave behind any organization that fails to make the digital transformation. So how can organizations avoid becoming another statistic, and move into a future that harnesses every single advantage digital transfer offers? The same way effective, and lasting change has always been done, with solid leadership and a well-crafted plan. This can also be done with the ability to build, and grow a team that embraces new opportunities along with rewarding, and challenging experiences. This is where a commitment to business innovation, and embracing digital transformation combined to set up organizations for future success. But what is business innovation? It's a creative or progressive strategy or a method or product use to improve or grow a business. Innovation in business is exactly what brought advances in modern technology. Without innovations of coders and engineers who built new platforms, new software products and new hardware, it would've been impossible to function in an economy that would've otherwise stopped when the largest global health crisis in 100 years struck. Those businesses innovated to survive.

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Course Description

It’s not exactly a secret that digital technology has become integral to pretty much everything, business included. Technology has become a crucial aspect of business, education, and our domestic lives. Software programs and other platforms have broken down once-complex tasks into easier, more manageable work. But how specifically can a business benefit from digital transformation? How can you leverage it to drive your business toward achieving innovation?

In these lessons on Digital Transformation and Business Leadership, by exploring the foundations of digital transformation, you’ll learn about how business innovation can fuel digital transformation in your organization. You’ll also learn how to design a plan for digital transformation, translate that plan to a winning strategy, and pursue digital maturity as a goal. A discussion of leadership that transforms organizations—including laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational types of leadership—will prepare you for the rest of the planning and implementation process. You’ll come out of this course knowing how to best leverage digital technology.

What You'll Learn

Recognize how business innovation facilitates digital transformation within an organization
Apply proven design methods to useful strategic planning processes
Describe digital maturity and demonstrate how design and strategy help achieve it
Design a plan for digital transformation and translate it into a winning strategy
Compare laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership styles
Leverage digital technology to drive business innovation

Key Takeaways

Digital technology has become integral to business, education, and domestic life, breaking complex tasks into more manageable work.
Business innovation can fuel digital transformation within an organization.
Pursuing digital maturity is a goal supported by sound design and strategy.
Leadership that transforms organizations includes laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational types, with emphasis on transformational leadership.
Designing a digital transformation plan can be translated into a winning strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will explore the foundations of digital transformation, learn how business innovation fuels it, design a plan and translate it into a strategy, pursue digital maturity, and compare leadership styles including laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership.

What topics does this course cover?

The course covers Digital Transformation and Business Innovation; Design, Strategy, and Digital Maturity; and Leadership that Transforms, followed by a Test Your Knowledge section.

Which leadership styles are discussed?

The course discusses laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational types of leadership, with an emphasis on transformational leadership.

What is the goal of the course?

You will come out of the course knowing how to best leverage digital technology to drive your business toward achieving innovation and pursuing digital maturity.