Going Digital

by Jones, Lyndsey; Singh Powar, Balvinder

• ISBN13: 9781292375670
• ISBN10: 1292375671
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-02-15
• Publisher: FT Publishing International

Summary

How to make change happen in business.

A practical and revealing guide for anyone dealing with transformation, whatever their business or sector. Understand how to deliver digital change at the coalface, alongside the relevant management theory. With case studies detailing the successes and challenges they have overcome, you’ll learn from the experiences from managers, academics and relevant stakeholders in each chapter, including the FT.

 

Author Biography

Lyndsey Jones is an executive editor at the FT and has successfully overseen global transformation projects in the FT newsroom. She also advises other media companies on what it takes to deliver new working practices and editorial operations.

Balvinder Singh Powar incubates start-ups, works in culture change for companies and has been a mediator to resolve workplace conflicts. He is an expert in building high performance teams, learning about what goes wrong and making it right. He is an award-winning professor at IE Business School in Madrid. He has a wide network on LinkedIn and some of his videos on YouTube have views of around 15,000.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Start as you mean to go on

2. Challenges of change: Dealing with the dark side 

3. Exercising the agility muscle

4. Humanity’s secret weapon

5. Robo-bosses and data magicians

6. The real power of diversity

7. Sudden impact: Black swans and cockroach unicorns