Digital Maturity and Its Influence on Leadership and Corporate Culture: How Digital Maturity, Culture and Leadership Shape High Performing Virtual Teams

This book examines the complex interdependencies between digital maturity, leadership behavior, organizational culture, and team performance in contemporary organizations. By conceptualizing digital maturity as both measurable and influenceable, the study demonstrates how leadership practices and cultural dynamics jointly shape digital transformation trajectories while affecting team performance, particularly in remote and hybrid environments. Using a multilayered analytical approach, the research develops a four-cell classification model that differentiates organizations based on their digital maturity level and leadership behavior, identifying four distinct organizational types. This model addresses an important gap in understanding high-performing virtual teams by integrating the four interacting dimensions into a coherent analytical and diagnostic framework. The book ultimately proposes a remote-leadership framework designed to enhance leadership effectiveness, strengthen organizational culture, elevate team performance, and accelerate digital maturity. It provides scholars, practitioners, and leaders with a robust, evidence-based tool for assessing and shaping leadership in digitally driven, distributed organizational environments.

As a senior project manager at a leading management consultancy, Diana-Marie Schröder is responsible for strategic digitalisation initiatives and supports companies on their path to sustainable digital excellence.