Digital Transformation: Strategy, Execution and Technology

Digital transformation is a multidimensional concept and involves many moving parts. Successful digital transformation requires a fresh approach to harnessing people, processes, technology, and data to develop new business models and digital ecosystems. One main barrier could be an overemphasis on applying technology to expand the business rather than transforming the people’s mindsets to do things differently. Thus, it is important to develop a holistic view of these parts and assemble them to foster the right conditions for digital transformation to happen. Business leaders and executives must be equipped with a wide range of digital competencies to thrive in a rapidly changing digital environment.

Digital Transformation: Strategy, Execution, and Technology provides an overall view on the strategy, execution, and technology for organizations aiming to transform digitally. It offers insights on how to become more successful in the digital age by explaining the importance and relevance of the various building blocks which form the foundation of a digital organization. It shows the reader how to develop these building blocks in the organization as part of the digital transformation journey from both a business and technical perspective.

Highlights of the book include:

• Digital transformation strategy

• Digital governance and risk management

• Digital organization and change management

• Experimental learning and design thinking

• Digital product management

• Agile and DevSecOps

• Digital enterprise architecture

• Business applications of digital technology

This practical guide is written keeping business and information technology professionals and digital transformation practitioners in mind. It is also suitable for students pursuing postgraduate degrees and participants attending executive education programs in business and information technology.

Siu Loon Hoe is associate professor of information systems (practice) and director of Master of IT in Business (Digital Transformation) program in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in information systems and innovation, digital transformation strategy, and digital organization and change management. Previously, at the National University of Singapore, Siu Loon has delivered executive education programs in digital government and business process reengineering. He has also been a frequent speaker at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Siu Loon has more than 25 years of industry experience in assisting C-suite executives from both the private and public sectors. He has held various senior managerial and consulting roles and has led large-scale change management projects across the region in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea. He was an invited forum speaker on investment in the healthcare industry organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat.