Stop working in silos and embark on a real digital transformation program

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If you're part of a leadership team, you'll recognize how unusual it is to have a highly productive, collaborative, and forward-looking group. But today, success requires our leadership teams to lead – and perform and transform the organization toward meaningful purpose.

To start: Most companies will experience a high level of competition within their upper ranks. While this jostling for power and individualistic thinking drives accountability, it usually won't transform the business. But leadership teams must do more than just work better together – they must recognize the incredible responsibility they have to reverse their efforts to meet the needs of the organization to lead and shape its future. In Beyond Digital, we interviewed and studied the leaders of today's biggest companies, such as Microsoft and Hitachi, to find out how exactly they drive businesses through change.

Here are three actions you can take to reposition leaders so they can drive growth, success, and digital transformation in your organization.

Gather the right combination of skills

The first step to enabling transformation within your business is to create the right roles within your leadership team. This will establish what key areas need to be represented, what skills are required, and what type of leaders you want to help run the business. Just as an organization creates a strategic plan based on its abilities to differentiate itself from its competitors, your leaders will need new skills, thinking, and capabilities to be able to shape the future of the business.

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In fact, there has been an explosion of new titles and roles within the C Suite in recent years, such as Quality Managers, Analytics Managers, Behavior Managers, and Compliance Managers. customer base to focus on critical capabilities for the future. of an organization. You need to choose the areas that represent your strategy, your purpose, and the capabilities your organization needs to develop to achieve incredible results. For example, Apple created a Design Director position in 2015 to signal the importance of design to Apple. This helped Apple attract top designers and showcase a company's ability to differentiate.

Your leadership team needs to balance some of these core capabilities with the traditional functional and P&L roles that help you reorient the organization. As you build your team, be sure to ensure diversity of experience, background, and ideas, which is key to ensuring the team brings unique skills to shape the future and hold each other accountable.

Focus on driving digital transformation in addition to reacting to today's demands

The last few years have certainly presented an endless series of 'fires' to manage, beyond the ever so difficult performance of the b...