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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Businesses simply have run out of time to embark on multi-year transformation projects – that window has closed. In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Tech companies like Alphabet have even more learning; that company had 2700 AI projects underway as far back as 2015. We think this is a bad idea.

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

A fleet efficiency project, which many would just call good business with a good payback, is a carbon and climate action. In my experience, most companies are risk-averse and like to fashion themselves as great “fast followers.” Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue. That’s exactly right.