This book acts as a valuable quick-access resource on the challenges and opportunities that the digital age presents to organizational leadership. Balanced, comprehensive, and thought-provoking, the book will be useful to professionals and practitioners. The book broadly follows a macro, meso, and micro approach to argumentation and is best read from beginning to end. The book synopsizes the historical context of technological revolutions and reflects on first-order results from enhanced use of information and communication technology in organizations; considers second-level impacts from information and communication technology on economy, society, work, and the very act of organizing; maps out core concepts of agility and principles that leaders should honor to exploit agility in newfound workforce ecosystems; showcases emerging leadership behaviors and mindsets; and specifies the good practice needed to plan and lead digital strategies. The book invites reference to the author's popular Knowledge Solutions: Tools, Methods, and Approaches to Drive Organizational Performance (2017) and the more recent Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology (2021), which it both rests on and extends.
Author(s): Olivier Serrat
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 90
City: New York
Foreword by Malgorzata Houshman
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Foreword by Dr. Ann Romosz
Preface
References
Preamble
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Contents
List of Figures
Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: An Evolutionary Perspective
Information: What’s in a Word?
Information and Communication Technology in the Scheme of Things
Information and Communication Technology in Organizations
Information and Communication Technology: What’s Next?
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Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Impacts and Implications
Second-Level Impacts of Information and Communication Technology
Organization: What’s in a Word?
Leveraging Information and Communication Technology for Agility
Leading Agile Organizations
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Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Powering Agile-Friendly Leadership
Core Concepts of Organizational Agility
Leading the Agile Organization
Wielding Information and Communication Technology for Agility
Leading Virtual Teams
Leading in Workforce Ecosystems
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Leading in the Digital Age
Reframing Leadership in the Digital Age
A Leader’s Playbook for the Digital Age
Leading Digital Transformation
Deus Ex Machina
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Planning and Driving a Digital Strategy
Quid Digital Transformation?
The Nature of Digital Strategies
Terms of Reference for a Digital Strategy
Framing Digital Engagement
Driving Digital Transformation
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Afterword
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Index
