The paper discusses electronic leadership
(e-leadership) competencies that would ensure
organizational competitiveness in the digital transformation of an organisation
or a unit of an
organisation. Like any other large-scale transformation of a business that has
high failure rates, digital
transformation can fail and it is failing in organisations in Africa; making
them bankrupt requiring
business rescue or taking them completely out of business. Digital
transformation is considered as the
process of using digital technologies (integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS)
i.e., (intelligent
network systems) and business processes) to create and improve production,
sustain customer
experiences; thus, the use of digital technologies to integrate business
process, office automation,
industrial process and factory automation to transform business. It is
therefore argued that most
African organizations are currently faced with the critical challenge of
determining the preconvergence and convergence of technologies, their alignment
with strategy and their integration with
business processes and systems to build digital business infrastructure for
competitiveness. The
concept of enactment of technology-in-practice derived from Adaptive
Structuration Theory was used
as a lens through which to understand and interpret the implications of the
digital transformation on
leadership competencies to derive e-leadership profile to lead African
businesses in the digital age.
As such the objective of this paper is to determine the competencies of
e-leadership to lead digital
transformation agenda of an organization in a highly and digitally competitive
marketplace. It is a
qualitative study, using an interpretative paradigm in a case study methodology
where semistructured interviews were used to collect data from each unit of
analysis representing specific South
African based businesses. The selected Cases in South African were extensively
investigated. The
enactment of e-leadership derived from AST is proposed to lead digital
transformation. The
implication is that the deployment of e-leadership in an organization has a
potential to yield benefits
such as the creation of higher organisational flexibility, empowerment of staff
and
strategic/competitive advantages for the organization. This paper proposes that
having effective eleaders in an organisation would lead to adequate
appropriation of digital technologies to digitally
transform an organisation.
Author(s)
Details
Dr. Michael Twum-Darko
Centre for
Business Innovation and Incubation, Cape Peninsula University of Technology,
South Africa.
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