IoD South | Panel Discussion: Digital Transformation Deficit in the Boardroom

Digital disruption is everywhere, and the pandemic has brought digital disruption at the forefront of every organisation’s strategy. In just over a year, the COVID-19 crisis has brought about years of change in the way companies in all sectors and regions do business. According to a new McKinsey Global Survey of executives*, their companies have accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions and of their internal operations by three to four years. The share of digital or digitally enabled products in their portfolios has accelerated by a shocking seven years.

Are the boardrooms of today, specially non-technology sectors ready for providing strategic leadership to the Executive on digital transformation?

Is the boardroom equipped to ask the right questions to the Executive and remain fully aligned to their digital transformation agenda?

When will there be a digital transformation committee sitting alongside conventional committees like audit, risk and compliance?