Leadership has evolved over the years especially in a world where businesses face unprecedented changes due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With changing customer expectations and the influx of new technologies, businesses operate in a new environment altogether. New-age technologies have led to drastic changes in the business world and more so for the leaders who have the mandate now to show the way forward amid disruptions and ambiguity.
Today we have roles such as Chief Customer Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, or Chief Experience Officer. According to World Economic Forum, “what these roles have in common are the new drivers for success – turning data into actionable insight, competing with digital disruptors, connecting disconnected people and systems, improving operational agility, and creating person-centric experiences, while driving greater profitability”.
But are we creating enough leaders to lead in the digital age? Only five percent of companies believe they have strong digital leaders in place, according to Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends survey. However, in a sign of positive change, 72 percent of survey respondents are developing or starting to develop new leadership programs focused on digital management. In fact, one of the priorities for HR in 2019 is strengthening the leadership bench, according to advisory firm Gartner.
The cover story delves deep into the digital leadership conundrum – including the essentials of digital heroes, producing new breed of digital leaders, role of technologies and innovation, the rising skill gaps, and the way the forward.
Leaders need to understand the transformative power of digital
Rachel Neaman, the director of Neaman Consulting, shares insights on the evolution of leaders in the digital era, role of leaders in digital transformation, and the hype around artificial intelligence.
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How Digital Transformation Can Power The Great Reset
Technology has the potential to serve as the key enabler of change between digitalising administrative tasks and fostering human connections
The Crypto Meltdown Of 2022
FTX implosion: A setback, but not the end for the crypto market
Govern Pre-IPO Unicorns to Create Value; Not Valuation
Billion-dollar startups always make the headlines. But is there true value behind those eye-catching valuations? How can proper governance be implemented for these much-hyped companies?
On change and change management
The best way to end the year, especially such a disrupted one as 2022, is by laying the groundwork for the year to come. Michelle Yong, Head of Resourcing at Shell, offers some insights on change management to bring us forward into 2023
The Great Reconnection: A paradigmatic moment for employers and employees
This year has not been a good one for employee retention. The Great Resignation, originally thought to be a US phenomenon, has emerged in Asia now. But is there a way to turn it into the Great Reconnection?
Lessons Managing in leadership: a global hybrid team
What takeaways can we draw from the pandemic? Fatima Koning, Chief Commercial Officer at IWG, shares what the last five years have taught her about managing a global sales team across 120 markets in the hybrid model
Eight HR trends that we saw throughout 2022
As companies manage their workforces in a dynamic era, HR departments have continually adapted and adjusted, and never more than this year as digital acceleration and workplace evolutions came together
One way to turn the tide of employee retention
There's a surprising link between skill development opportunities and job satisfaction. Here are some ways of boosting skilling and thereby talent retention
A key focus for L&D going into 2023 should be business alignment
Venkat Subramaniam of Degreed believes that learning is core to business success and organisations need to invest in the right processes and technologies to adapt to continuous change
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP CAN BE GAME GHANGER FOR INCLUSIVE FUTURE OF WORK
BREAKING FREE FROM THE STEREOTYPES IN THE INSURANCE SECTOR, PAMELA THOMSON-HALL SHARES HER JOURNEY OF BEING A CHAMPION FOR WOMEN AND BRINGING ABOUT A CHANGE IN A MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRY
