Leading Digital Transformation: Management, Governance and Control explores how digital transformation is reshaping governance, control and management across organizations and society. It examines the effects of digitalization on strategy, structure and systems while offering historical context and addressing key areas such as AI, digital platforms, sustainability, leadership, risk, regulation and ethics.
Uncovering the hidden forces driving digitalization, this book highlights the positive potential for digital technologies to guide and govern organizations toward a better society. In combining analytical depth with thematic breadth, the authors capture the complexity of digital transformation while also addressing practical implications for governance, strategy and control.
Comprehensive and accessible, this book serves as an indispensable guide for those seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation. This is an ideal book for students and practitioners in the areas of digital transformation, innovation, organizational change, corporate governance and leadership.
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of contributors ix
List of figures xv
List of tables xvii
Foreword xix
1 Introduction 1
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PART I
Basics and history 15
2 Information – knowledge as a basis for governance and control 17
JAN LINDVALL
3 Communication: governance challenges with digital communication 33
THERESE HEDMAN MONSTAD
4 Technology: from big physical hardware to invisible services and back
to small physical semiconductors 48
JAN LINDVALL AND DARIUSZ OSOWSKI
5 IT governance: from bureaucracy to paradox 68
JOHAN MAGNUSSON
PART II
Strategy, structure and systems 83
6 Strategy – digital transformation as a prerequisite and means
for new strategies 85
ALF WESTELIUS AND NILS‑GÖRAN OLVE
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7 Structure – digital transformation and organization 104
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8 Systems: history and development 126
JOHAN MAGNUSSON
PART III
Application and contemporary issues 137
9 Platforms 139
ANDREAS NILSSON
10 Competence provision 151
PER THILANDER AND BERTIL ROLANDSSON
11 Sustainable development 165
ELISABETH FRISK AND KRISTINA JONÄLL
12 Data governance for digital organizations 182
JONATHAN CRUSOE AND DANIEL NYLÉN
13 Leadership in an algorithm‑driven world 195
CHARLOTTA KRONBLAD
14 Consensing for strategic alignment 207
KRISTIAN NORLING
15 Digital transformation and governance from the
customer’s perspective 223
JACOB HALLENCREUTZ AND LOVE WESTIN
16 Digital transformation of the public sector 235
TOMAS LINDROTH
17 Inclusive digital transformation 250
DANIEL CURTO‑MILLET
18 AI and governance dilemmas in law enforcement 259
MARIE ENEMAN AND JAN LJUNGBERG
19 Regulation, governance, and AI systems 271
ENSIEH MAHI, JASON CRAWFORD AND MAGNUS STRAND
20 How digital infrastructures are transforming society 289
OWEN ERIKSSON
21 Final words – looking back and ahead 303
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Index 311
About the Author :
Einar Iveroth is Associate Professor & Excellent Teacher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.
Jan Lindvall is Associate Professor & Excellent Teacher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.
Johan Magnusson is Professor at the Department of Applied IT, Division of Informatics, Gothenburg University.
Review :
"In Leading Digital Transformation, the authors bridge the gap between the theory and practice of dgital transformation. Covering digital transformation from its theoretical underpinnings to real-world applications, the book is a must-read for anyone looking to expand their knowledge on what digital transformation is and how it can be managed." Jonny Holmström, Professor of Informatics, Director for Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI), Umeå University
"As AI and digital transformation demand resilient leadership, this book offers crucial clarity. It explains how governance, technology, and strategic investments align through strategy, structure, and systems. A comprehensive must-read for anyone seeking best-practice guidance in understanding flexible and scalable innovation." Ingo Paas, Ingo Paas is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of Green Cargo
“The book represents a comprehensive review of digital transformation and variety of managerial issues it raises. The editors and the contributing authors discuss with depth and competence the structural, strategic and governance implications of digital transformation for business firms and organizations." Jannis Kallinikos, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics
"To properly face some of the greatest challenges of our time, ideas are needed that tackle the intersection between management and digital transformation. It is in this critical overlap that real change can happen. Leading digital tranformation: management, governance and control presents some excellent thinking on the topic and will help drive this change if put in the hands of students and practitioners." Jessica Nordlander, Chief Operating Officer, Vox Pop Labs, named Swedens’ Most Innovative Leader and one of Canada’s 100 most influential women in Science and Technology.
