Business Orchestration : Strategic Leadership in the Era of Digital Convergence

Digital convergence is redefining industries, and putting information, knowledge and collaboration at the heart of strategic leadership and management. In the face of such change it is those leaders who can ‘orchestrate’ a complex network of employees, customers and suppliers in a single ongoing learning experience that will succeed. Exploring four learning roles for customers (information acquirer; explorer; performer; inventor) and orchestrators (conductor; architect; auctioneer; promoter), Business Orchestration provides a strategic view of how to harness digital convergence by mobilizing and integrating the resources of other companies to create business value. Today's business world places great emphasis on capabilities. Yet what is often overlooked is that capabilities are only built if individuals acquire new skills, and this requires leadership to motivate them to actively learn for the benefit of the organization. A focus on capabilities therefore automatically implies a focus on the individual, and on how to nurture creativity in the extended enterprise. When learning is combined with value creation we call it Business Orchestration. Into this melting pot we may now add digital convergence - the real-time availability of information via techn 1. Value-creating Capabilities -- 2. Focus On Learning -- 3. Orchestrating Leadership -- 4. Information Acquisition -- 5. Problem Solving -- 6. Co-experiencing -- 7. Insight Accumulation -- 8. Transitional Objects -- 9. Core Resources -- 10. Offering Concepts -- 11. Customer Interactions -- 12. Value Constellations -- 13. The Iocc Framework -- 14. The Leader As Conductor -- 15. The Leader As Architect -- 16. The Leader As Auctioneer -- 17. The Leader As Promoter -- 18. Thriving, Aware, And Engaging. Johan Wallin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [365]-384) And Index. Providing leaders with the thinking and advice needed to manage and lead change, this volume lends a practitioner's view on leadership and strategy and provides the tools and techniques needed to build new capabilities for the future