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Managing Along the Digital Continuum

August 1, 2018 | MIT Sloan Management Review | Managing Technology

The digital world presents new challenges for every organizational leader. Do you fold digital capacities onto your organization, or do you remake the business entirely? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines how executives are responding today — and the ways they can be smarter in the future.

Articles included with this collection:

The Best Response to Digital Disruption by Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck

The Big Squeeze: How Compression Threatens Old Industries by Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, Vedrana Savic, and Michael Moore

Leading in the Age of Super-Transparency by Robert D. Austin and David M. Upton

The Heavy Toll of ‘Always On’ Technology by Larry D. Rosen, interviewed by Frieda Klotz

Thriving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem by Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner

A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Future Leaders by Stacey Philpot and Kelly Monahan

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