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Explore our collection of insights on how leadership is evolving to drive successful digital transformations.

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The digital-value guardian: CEOs and digital transformations

December 20, 2021 – The CEO is ultimately the only one who can shape and guide a successful digital transformation. Here’s the playbook.
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Executive Briefing

How boards can help digital transformations
– Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.
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How do you measure success in digital? Five metrics for CEOs
– As organizations launch more and more digital initiatives, CEOs must monitor whether they are delivering business results. These... metrics are ones to watch.
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Scaling AI like a tech native: The CEO’s role
– Embedding AI across an enterprise to tap its full business value requires shifting from bespoke builds to an industrialized AI... factory. MLOps can help, but the CEO must facilitate it.
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The CEO’s new technology agenda
– Technology performance has become critical to business success. Here’s how a CEO can focus the technology function on a... company’s strategic priorities.
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A CEO guide for avoiding the ten traps that derail digital transformations
– Transforming your business has risks. Successful leaders know how to spot them and avoid them.

Interviews

Podcast

The committed innovator: An interview with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo
– When a marketing executive discovered an unexpected market opportunity, she disrupted the company’s original business—and... became CEO in the process.
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly

Using ecosystems to reach higher: An interview with the co-CEO of Ping An
– Expect digital to further blur industry lines, supercharge scalability, and loosen geographical restraints for professional services,... says Jessica Tan.
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly

How the CEO of Samsung SDS sets a course for ‘humble and speedy’
– Won-Pyo Hong, CEO of Samsung’s information- and communications-technology arm, explains how a collaborative approach helps... his South Korea–based company drive digital transformations globally.
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Building a digital New York Times: CEO Mark Thompson
– Thompson looks back on an eight-year tenure that has transformed a 170-year-old news brand into a global, digital-subscription-first... powerhouse—and at what lies ahead for its new leadership.
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Transformation and resilience: An interview with Best Buy’s executive chairman Hubert Joly
– Hubert Joly shares lessons from leading the turnaround of the retail and technology giant and how it prepared him and the company... for the current crisis.
Interview - Fast Times

Make a digital vision real by learning and adapting along the way
– Investing in people and role-modeling the company’s vision creates a culture where employees do their best work because... they feel confident about making appropriately bold moves and have a willingness to make mistakes and learn from them.
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