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The Value of Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review · Article · 31 Jul 2023 · Empirical research · Paywalled · Editor's rating: ★★ Recommended

Digital and AI transformations can create lasting advantage, but only firms that commit fully capture the expected value.

Summary

Lamarre, Chheda, Riba, Genest and Nizam note that 89% of large companies have digital and AI transformations under way yet have captured only 31% of the expected revenue lift and 25% of expected cost savings. They tracked the performance of 80 banks over four years to identify how transformation efforts pay off. Their analysis addresses whether leading or fast-following is wiser and whether digital capabilities provide durable advantage, and it

Editor's opinion

Tracks 80 banks over four years and quantifies a real ambition-vs-captured-value gap in digital/AI transformation -- directly useful and well-evidenced.

Key concepts

Digital transformation value · Banking performance · Capability-based advantage

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