Original title: Mastering digital transformation: The nexus between leadership, agility, and digital strategy
The researchers tested how leadership and an organization’s ability to adapt relate to digital transformationA substantial change in how an organization works through the use of digital technology.. They found that digital transformational leadership and organizational agilityAn organization’s ability to respond and adapt when conditions change. each positively influence digital transformation. Leadership also positively influences agility. Agility partly explains the link between leadership and digital transformation, while digital strategy is examined as a moderatorA factor that changes how strongly, or in what way, two things are related.—something that can change how a relationship works.
Imagine a community kitchen trying to change how it prepares and serves meals. It is hard to make a new plan work if the team cannot adjust when supplies or needs change. In this paper, leadership is like guiding the kitchen, agility is its ability to adapt, and digital transformation is the change in how the work gets done; agility helps explain how leadership connects to that change.
Public-sector workers and the people who rely on public services are affected by how well organizations handle digital change. The study suggests leadership and organizational agility both matter, with agility helping explain how leadership relates to digital transformation.
The abstract does not report how the model was tested, what public-sector organizations or settings were included, or the size of the effects. It also does not state whether digital strategy significantly changed any relationship. The findings do not establish that the relationships apply to every organization or prove that leadership causes digital transformation.
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Mastering digital transformation: The nexus between leadership, agility, and digital strategy — Bader Khamis AlNuaimi, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Shuang Ren et al. — Journal of Business Research — doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.038
Abstract licence: CC BY
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