Research Catalog

Title

Driving digital : the leader's guide to business transformation through technology / Isaac Sacolick.

Author

Sacolick, Isaac

Publication

• New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2017]
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xviii, 283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Every organization has a plan for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that's not enough anymore. With disruptive startups outperforming industry stalwarts, executives everywhere are pushing greater growth and innovation. Staying competitive demands a complete digital transformation. For professionals charged with leading technology-driven change, the pressure is intense--and the path forward unclear. Author Isaac Sacolick has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations and helped shape digital-business best practices. Now in Driving Digital, he shares the lessons he's learned, detailing how to: Formulate a digital strategy -- Transform business and IT practices -- Align Development and Operations -- Promote agile practices -- Drive culture change -- Bolster digital talent -- Manage a portfolio of initiatives -- Capture and track ROI -- Strengthen data-driven decision making and expand data science practices -- Cultivate strategic technology capabilities -- Develop innovative digital products -- Enable product management -- Pilot emerging technologies -- Become smarter faster. Every company is on the cusp of digital disruption. But with so many pieces to the puzzle, efforts often get derailed. Driving Digital is the action plan you need to take your company and career into the future. -- Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

• Leader's guide to business transformation through technology
• Business transformation through technology

Subjects

• Information technology > Management
• Organisationswandel
• Entreprises > Effets des innovations technologiques
• Informationstechnik
• Business enterprises > Technological innovations
• Organizational change
• Technische Innovation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : The secret every business must confront to succeed with digital transformation -- The transformation imperative : Beginning transformation: every day is day one ; What is digital business? -- Agile transformational practices : Understanding agile practices ; Agile planning practices ; Aligning SDLC to agile: what is your MVP (Minimal Viable Practice)? ; Release lifecycle ; Transformational improvements through agile -- Technical foundations for transformation : Introducing the new IT operations ; Agile operations defined ; Agile architecture ; IT culture -- Agile portfolio management : What is everyone working on? ; Implementing portfolio management ; Financial portfolio practices ; Final thought on agile portfolio management -- Transforming to a data driven organization : To become data drive, start by reviewing our past data sins ; The challenges of enabling big data and data science ; Transforming IT with data services ; The agile data organization ; Summary of data governance ; Data-driven culture summary -- Driving revenue through digital products : Strategic planning digital revenue products ; Product strategy in digital transformation ; From strategy to product planning ; From produce planning to development ; What digital leaders should do to enable product management -- Driving digital: smarter and faster : The cultural underpinnings of digital organizations ; Driving digital: the lens of smarter-faster.

Call Number

JBE 18-1237

ISBN

• 9780814438602
• 0814438601

LCCN

2017008707

OCLC

964380305

Author

Sacolick, Isaac, author.

Title

Driving digital : the leader's guide to business transformation through technology / Isaac Sacolick.

Publisher

New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Sacolick, Isaac, author. Driving digital New York : AMACOM, [2017] 9780814438619 (DLC) 2017025210

Research Call Number

JBE 18-1237