Michael Wade Bücher

Practical strategies for transforming your company from a digital dabbler into a fully digital business are essential in today’s landscape. Many organizations, after initially embracing digital disruption, face challenges in implementing effective transformations, with up to 90 percent failing to achieve their goals. This guide, crafted by global experts in digital transformation, offers actionable advice to help you navigate the complexities of this process. It is organized into five key sections: establishing a solid foundation for digital transformation, addressing organizational dynamics and culture, tackling external challenges, generating revenue through digital products and services, and developing the necessary skills for effective leadership in a digital context. Additionally, it emphasizes sustaining momentum throughout the transformation journey. Key questions are addressed, including how to establish digital governance, create successful digital offerings, and manage the relationship between digital transformation and IT. This resource is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to transform your organization and maintain a competitive advantage in the evolving digital landscape.

From three top innovation experts at IMD Business School comes a smart new model for innovative thinking and problem solving. How do people come up with truly original ideas? For the past decade, the authors of this book have studied individuals who have made leaps of creativity-inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and artists-and concluded that there are five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns-Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation and Navigation-lead to a fresh and flexible approach to problem-solving. Alien thinkers know how to free the imagination so it can detect hard-to-observe patterns. They practice deliberate ways to retreat from the world in order to see the big picture underlying a problem. And, they have learned how to change their prototype ideas in systematic ways to reflect feedback and the constraints of reality. Through surprising and compelling stories, the authors show how readers can adopt their five patterns of thinking and use it to develop world-changing ideas. From the WHO's first major breakthrough in treating the Ebola virus, to the balloonist Betrand Piccard's first circumnavigation of the Earth without using fuel, and a British inventor's device that creates electrical power from human footsteps, ALIEN Thinking can help any of us find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.