Are you strategic enough to survive the digital future? In this Partnering Leadership episode, global strategy expert Michael Lenox, UVA Professor and author of Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation shares indispensable insights to help leaders craft agile strategies in the age of AI. Drawing from decades of research and firsthand experience steering his own business school’s digital transformation, Mike Lenox reveals how to spot exponential change before it disrupts you, why strategy must drive technology (not vice versa), how to identify your unique competitive advantage, and the critical human skills machines will never replicate. If you’re anxious about AI, automation, and competing in the digital age, don’t miss Michael Lenox’s thoughtful perspectives and advice to help any organization build a strategy for long-term resilience.
Some Actionable Takeaways:
• Learn why starting digital transformation with IT upgrades can run you into an iceberg quicker.
• Gain insights on monitoring technology adoption S-curves to see disruptive exponential change coming.
• Find out what competitive moves historically resilient companies make and how you can do the same.
• Discover how to empower “digital champions” throughout your organization to drive strategic adoption.
• Listen to discover which human skills will remain uniquely valuable in an AI-powered world.
• Learn how to combine judgment with data to avoid over-indexing on an unknowable future.
Connect with Michael Lenox
Michael Lenox Website (https://www.michael-lenox.com/)
Michael Lenox on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellenox/)
Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Digital-Age-Mastering-Transformation/dp/1503635198/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1691791925&sr=8-1)
Resources
Partnering Leadership conversation with Ajay Agrawal on Prediction Machines and Power & Prediction (https://www.partneringleadership.com/260-leading-through-the-disruptive-economics-of-artificial-intelligence-with-professor-ajay-agrawal-partnering-leadership-ai-global-thought-leader/)
Partnering Leadership conversation with Azeem Azhar on the Exponential Age (https://www.partneringleadership.com/how-you-can-prepare-for-the-acceleration-and-lead-in-the-exponential-age-with-azeem-azhar-partnering-leadership-global-thought-leader/)
Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:
Mahan Tavakoli Website (https://mahantavakoli.com/)
Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/)
Partnering Leadership Website (https://www.partneringleadership.com/)
