Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Book Tuning: The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries Dec.2017

An effective board provides the guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward.

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses toward the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals. Here is the monthly “Digital Boardroom” summary about digital inquiries in the boardroom.

               The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries



The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries Corporate Boards have a couple of main functions such as strategy oversight, performance monitoring, leadership advising, governance practices, and resource provision. A high performing board would be performing all those roles in a way appropriate to the best interests of the organization and becoming the mastermind of digital transformation.


The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries (II) Digital boards play a directorial role in strategy oversight, business advising & monitoring, advocating changes and inspiring innovation. Board as a whole needs to be able to create a holistic digital view via listening, brainstorming, and questioning, This implies that Boards of the future will need to work much more closely and collaboratively, to become the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation.


The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries (III) Digitalization is driving unpredictability demanding a more rapid deployment that quickly can adapt to the changes and adjust to the new market conditions. Hence, digital strategy management takes nonlinear steps and embraces the emergent events and activities. Digital strategy making and execution are a collective effort of varying business departments to fit business purposes, leverage digital speed, and delight customers. Digital boards as the strategic advising role are also the “mastermind” behind digital transformation to oversee strategy and monitor performance.


The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries (IV) All forward-looking organizations across the industrial sectors are on the journey of digital transformations. An effective board provides the guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward. The board with digital savvy BoDs understand what's required and how as a high-level basis of going digital mean to the business, so they can make a significant impact on accelerating digital transformation with a premium speed. Here is a set of digital boards’ strategy inquiries.




The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries V Digital boards play a crucial directorial role in strategy oversight, business advising, and monitoring, exemplifying leadership, advocating changes and innovation. To lead effectively, the board needs to be able to leverage diverse viewpoints via listening, brainstorming, and questioning, make effective decisions via critical thinking, independent thinking, strategic thinking, and systems thinking, and become the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation?

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