Digital Leadership

Home Organisation Choices Publications Working Papers Digital Leadership Digital Leadership A key characteristic of a digital organization is its ability to use digital technologies to create competitive advantage.  This ability to create competitive advantage however is a function of many factors, such as strategy, culture, technology and human resources.  These factors require intentional blending to…

Building a Digital Organization: Strategic, Cultural and Leadership Imperatives

Digital technologies are ubiquitous, but our understanding of what makes an organization digital, and ways in which a digital organization is different, is still in early stages. This paper seeks to develop a framework for understanding the nature and scope of digital organizations. It is proposed that digital organizations are different to the extent they leverage digital technologies to compete and build sustainable competitive advantage. This paper discusses different ways in which firms can be digital. Digital technologies enable a (digital) firm to address the dilemmas (such as value creation or value capture, cost minimization or differentiation, and strategy formulation or implementation) implicit in traditional strategy literature through new business models, innovation, and accessing new markets and needs. However, in doing so, they raise the performance bar for culture and leadership to meet. Organizational culture and leadership that are digitally aligned is likely to be more effective in leveraging digital technologies. Sections on strategy, digital culture and digital leadership discuss ways in which digital technologies presents new opportunities and poses new challenges for digital firms.

Nature and Scope of Digital Organizations

Home Organisation Choices Publications Working Papers Nature and Scope of Digital Organizations Nature and Scope of Digital Organizations Defining digital technologies – and by implication digital organizations – is an ambitious task, because they are ubiquitous, dynamic, exist in varied forms, used differently for various purposes, and keep evolving with new technologies every few years.…

Strategy and Digital Technologies

Home Organisation Choices Publications Working Papers Strategy and Digital Technologies Strategy and Digital Technologies Whilst the potential of digital technologies to create and capture value is undeniable, it is most likely to be actualised when they are integrated and implemented in the context of strategy and culture.  This relationship between digital technology on the one…

Digital Culture

Home Organisation Choices Publications Working Papers Digital Culture Digital Culture It is often quoted that culture eats strategy for breakfast, and, to the extent, this observation holds good, it is important to understand digital culture as a different construct, because a strategy that leverages  digital may also benefit from a culture that is digital. Culture…

Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Summary The paper seeks to explore strategic choices available to firms in the post Covid-19 lockdown period. Using Schön’s approach, this paper characterises the post lockdown as an indeterminate situation,…

Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper  Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper The seemingly simple questions of what and how to compensate employees form the core of how employees and indeed the firms and economic systems perform. They are also at the intersection of human nature (what motivates…

Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma Managing Risks arising from Expeditious Start-Up Innovation: Invisible Hand, Regulation or Self-Governance – A Trilemma Entrepreneurship and a well-functioning start-up eco-system is an essential part of an innovative and competitive economy, and the society.  They…

Proposed Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Pay Regulation: Learning from the European Experience

Home Public Policy Choices Publications Perspectives Proposed Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Pay Regulation: A Perspective Proposed Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Pay Regulation: A Perspective based on the European Experience   It is indeed timely for RBI to bring focus to pay regulation for private sector banks in India, as the private…

Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration into the Assumptions and Biases in Understanding Leadership

Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration Changing the Nature of Conversations on Leadership: An Exploration into the Assumptions and Biases in Understanding Leadership Leadership is considered an essential feature of any collective human endeavour whether organized informally, or in a more formal way, as in organizations.  It…