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Follow the Digital Trace: Turning Digital Artifacts into Digital Capital

Posted March 9, 2017 | Leadership | Technology | Amplify

This wave of digitization is fundamentally rewriting the rules of competition across industries: the charac­teristics that made firms successful in the past are not the same characteristics that distinguish winners from losers in the digital era. One of these fundamental changes is the steadily increasing importance of innovation and continuous improvement. Research shows that the more digital an industry becomes, the more rapid the speed of change in the industry. There is no such thing as a sustained competitive advantage in the digital era. However, digitization does not only create challenges for actors in affected industries. Digitization in itself also provides the keys to tackling the changing competitive dynamics. Because most firms still do not leverage the opportunities, the quickest ones to learn how to exploit them will be the ones that come out on top. 

 

About The Author
Stefan Henningsson
Stefan Henningsson is a Cutter Expert and a Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, where he researches strategic management of IT resources, including how companies such as Cisco Systems, SAP, Carlsberg, Danske Bank, Maersk Lines, and many ­others manage their acquisition-based growth strategies. Dr. Henningsson has published more than 100 peer-refereed academic papers in leading academic journals as well as practitioner-­oriented… Read More
Christian Ohrgaard
Christian Øhrgaard is an Account Executive at Semmle, a global software engineering analytics firm based out of San Francisco, where he manages the relationships with many of the world’s leading technology, financial services, and fintech companies. Mr. Øhrgaard has a background in management consulting from PA Consulting Group, where he delivered large technology transformations and turnaround programs for clients across Europe and the Middle… Read More
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