Digital Solutions: Reframing Leadership

Description

This book acts as a valuable quick-access resource on the challenges and opportunities that the digital age presents to organizational leadership. Balanced, comprehensive, and thought-provoking, the book will be useful to professionals and practitioners. The book broadly follows a macro, meso, and micro approach to argumentation and is best read from beginning to end. The book synopsizes the historical context of technological revolutions and reflects on first-order results from enhanced use of information and communication technology in organizations; considers second-level impacts from information and communication technology on economy, society, work, and the very act of organizing; maps out core concepts of agility and principles that leaders should honor to exploit agility in newfound workforce ecosystems; showcases emerging leadership behaviors and mindsets; and specifies the good practice needed to plan and lead digital strategies. The book invites reference to the author's popular Knowledge Solutions: Tools, Methods, and Approaches to Drive Organizational Performance (2017) and the more recent Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology (2021), which it both rests on and extends. Foreword by Malgorzata Houshman Reference Foreword by Dr. Ann Romosz Preface References Preamble Reference Contents List of Figures Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: An Evolutionary Perspective Information: What’s in a Word? Information and Communication Technology in the Scheme of Things Information and Communication Technology in Organizations Information and Communication Technology: What’s Next? References Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Impacts and Implications Second-Level Impacts of Information and Communication Technology Organization: What’s in a Word? Leveraging Information and Communication Technology for Agility Leading Agile Organizations References Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Powering Agile-Friendly Leadership Core Concepts of Organizational Agility Leading the Agile Organization Wielding Information and Communication Technology for Agility Leading Virtual Teams Leading in Workforce Ecosystems References Leading in the Digital Age Reframing Leadership in the Digital Age A Leader’s Playbook for the Digital Age Leading Digital Transformation Deus Ex Machina References Planning and Driving a Digital Strategy Quid Digital Transformation? The Nature of Digital Strategies Terms of Reference for a Digital Strategy Framing Digital Engagement Driving Digital Transformation References Afterword References Index