Episode 17 - Thought Leadership in Digital Transformation with Jim Maclennan

State of the CIO

The nature of business is changing in digital transformation. Conversations around central versus decentralization are also changing from being an expense to a competitive advantage. For CIOs and other leaders, it’s time to take notice.

Jim Maclennan, a strategic consultant on digital transformation, has spent his career helping organizations understand the concepts of digital business and how to put them into action. An organization must define how it creates value in order to strategically plan digital business strategies. Maclennan shares his knowledge of how to determine this value, how central and decentralization can help solve problems and where the next wave of IT impact is heading in the future on this week’s episode.

Key Takeaways:

• Centralizing or decentralizing depends on the mission and the core existence of what the company is.
• The definition of company value is found in co-creation with stakeholders.
• The next wave of IT impact will probably be something in AI, changing the nature of knowledge itself.

Maclennan recently published a book entitled, “Don’t Think So Much,” which focuses more on this topic. Listeners can find his book and learn more about him and his company, Maker Turtle, on his website, MakerTurtle.com.