Future Digital Leaders

According to a recent report by Capgemini Consulting, organisations are now convinced of the benefits AI can bring. The key question now is where and how they should invest.

The research, freely available here Turning AI into concrete value: the successful implementers’ toolkit, offers a pragmatic guide helping organisations in their AI investment decisions.

Based on an analysis of over 50 AI use cases, together with a survey of over 1,000 senior executives, the report presents interesting case examples of AI delivering tangible business benefits across a range of different industries. Highly practical advice is provided in terms of devleoping an AI strategy and roadmap for your own…

Please find below our top ten reads on Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation published over the last month or so; together with some news type articles.

Top Ten Reads

Digital Disruption to Displace 4 in 10 Industry Incumbents by 2020

A short introduction to the recent IMD/Cisco Report. Digital disruption could overturn incumbents and reshape markets faster than any force in history. Based on a survey of 941 business leaders in 12 industries and 13 countries, the report concluded that digital disruption will displace approximately 40 percent of industry incumbents within the next five years.

The Digital Vortex

A slightly longer summary of the above. Despite the threat of…

One of the best and most recent books on digital transformation is Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation by Westerman, Bonnet and McAfee (2014).

Over a four year period, the authors studied a large number of ‘Digital Masters’ - defined as companies who were proactively using digital technologies to drive significantly higher levels of profit, productivity and performance - across a diverse range of industries. ‘Digital Masters’ were 26 percent more profitable than their average industry competitor; generating 9 percent more revenue with their existing capacity and driving more efficiency in their…