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Corporate Leaders are Missing Important Digital Skills

Corporate Leaders are Missing Important Digital Skills

Writing for Learning Solutions, Pamela Hole explores the rising digital divide in the C-Suite. In fact, fewer than a third of digital leaders rate themselves as “effective in digital acumen” according to the DDI Global Leadership Forecast. This gap is bad for business. “The world’s most digitally mature companies lead all other companies in value creation. They also have proved much more resilient during the crisis,” research by the Boston Consulting Group found. Forbes underscores the need for leaders to become digitally savvy: “Executives…

How Customer Service Is Guiding Digital Transformation

How Customer Service Is Guiding Digital Transformation

On Microsoft’s Savvy Business Leaders podcast series, host Bill Detwiler discussed with Solis how customer service is guiding digital transformation, with companies using data to be more accessible on mobile platforms and best meet customers’ expectations. Asked why companies need to rethink customer experience, Solis explained that customer experience is the number one catalyst for digital transformation. He said, “The biggest thing about this is that customers are going through or undergoing profound changes in their behaviors, which ultimately affect…