The Digital Director: How directors govern digital transformations

Are you a director on a board with little to no digital experience?

Are you struggling to understand the role you must play in your organisation’s digital transformation?

Is your gut telling you things are not quite right with the transformation, but you don’t know the questions to ask, or how to interpret the answers?

You are not alone. Our research shows the majority of board directors in Australia lack digital experience. Most literature on digital transformations targets practitioners and executives, not directors. Where advice is available to directors, it tends to be high level and directional. You need something practical, actions you can take now to add value to your organisation.

In The Digital Director, best-selling author Wayne Pales provides practical advice to directors on governing digital transformations. Throughout the book

Wayne explains why and how directors must:

1. Ensure everyone agrees what their digital destination is, and how they will know when they have arrived.
2. Take action around executive rewards, influence scope and be realistic about the organisation’s readiness.
3. Be proactive in looking beyond the formal status updates to read between the lines and understand the true health of the digital transformation.

Unlike any book on digital you would have read to date, Wayne focuses on your role as a director and shares his experiences, both good and bad, of

working with boards and executives on digital transformations.