Digital transformation, the discovery-driven way

Rita McGrath
6 min readSep 15, 2021

Talking about digital transformation has a way of freaking people out. They then do the exact wrong thing, which is to throw money and effort at anyone who can promise that — Poof! — digital is right around the corner! Here’s a smarter way to approach it.

There is no doubt that the advent of digital technologies has presented executives in companies with an inflection point of enormous proportions. An inflection point, as I discuss in Seeing Around Corners, is something, typically outside the boundaries of your organization, that exerts a 10X…

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Rita McGrath

Columbia Business School Professor. Thinkers50 top 10 & #1 in strategy. Bestselling author of The End of Competitive Advantage & Seeing Around Corners.