Business-Driven Digital Transformation: Efficiency, Scaling, and Innovation

“Vivek Kale has once again created a leading-edge book that successfully addresses one of today’s most critical challenges that businesses face. Business-Driven Digital Transformation provides executives and managers in a wide variety of industries valued insights on enhancing business efficiencies, business scaling, and business model innovation. Rather than focus mainly on the “what,” Vivek provides valuable insights into the “why” and the “how,” thus enabling leaders to not only provide a rationale and motivation for digital transformation, but also insights into the techniques and approaches to help ensure its success. Clearly, the cost of the book is a tiny price to pay for access to such valuable practical expertise!” –Prof. Gregory Dess, University of Texas at Dallas

“Business-Driven Digital Transformation has the potential to make a significant impact on the way organizations approach and implement digital transformation. It provides a much-needed holistic view of the process, addressing the challenges and opportunities that come with it. If you must transform your business to thrive in a digital world, start with this book!” -Lex Sisney, business scaling coach and author of Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business

“Business-Driven Digital Transformation (BDDT), written by Vivek Kale, is highly insightful not only for practitioners but also for academic researchers. The most distinctive feature, compared to other books on digital transformation, is that it proposes BDDT based on strategy management theories, specifically, activity-based, resource-based, and market-based views. He positions the role of information technology (IT) as the core of business activities and directly incorporates IT into competitive strategy. In addition, he presents a transformation model comprising three phases: enterprise as a machine, enterprise as an organism, and enterprise as a brain. This theory-based model serves as a comprehensive roadmap for companies pursuing digital transformation, targeting not only operational efficiency, but also growth and innovation.” -Prof. Dr. Mikihisa Nakano, Professor of Business Administration, Kyoto Sangyo University

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Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has worked with consulting organizations like TCS, Tata Unisys (now merged with TCS), i-flex solutions (now merged with Oracle Corp.), Syntel US and a couple of startup businesses. He has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and e-business architectures.

He also has industrial experience having worked as Group CIO of Essar Group (now ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AM/NS India) the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in enhancing business agility through digital transformation of business models, enterprise architecture and business processes, enabling the Process-Oriented Enterprise, and enhancing IT-enabled enterprise intelligence (EQ).

He is the author of books on cloud and big data computing. He is author of Inverting the Paradox of Excellence: How Companies Use Variations for Business Excellence and How Enterprise Variations Are Enabled by SAP, Agile Network Businesses and Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture.