Leadership is critical to advance "Transformation (X)" in the Digital era in which DX is rapidly disrupting markets and companies are quickly waning their prevailing competitive advantage.
Leaders need to be determined to constantly reform and rebuild existing structural frameworks so that they can effectively thrive in the drastically changing environment. Incumbents who want to maintain the status quo and enjoy steady growth of existing business operations will be challenged.
And as DX shifts focus to the business value, the requirements for model leaders who can understand digital technology, aren’t risk averse in decision making, can face and pacify the resistance from the business community, and can negotiate with external stakeholder, are becoming more complex and difficult.

According to a survey conducted by ABeam Consulting, Leadership is a critical factor for success of DX.
It is evidenced that a single leader however influential can’t transform the entire organization. It is necessary to build a "Leadership team" that is the central to drive transformation, and empower the management team, the transformation promotion team, and the frontline teams to become such leaders in their respective positions.
The Leadership team needs to have dynamic mindset that demonstrate strong sense of crisis to drive the company-wide transformation but at the same time have a clear VISION of the future.
Transformational leadership needs to be persuasive and pervade across departmental boundaries without the fear of conflicts with the existing business issues, such as declining sales.
Workplace Leadership encourages each organization to independently act as agents of transformation and commit to yield outcomes.
To foster such workplace leadership, the Leadership Team promoting DX must concretely present the post-transformation state and support the creation of frameworks to collaboratively accomplish the goals.
ABeam Consulting supports the development of such leadership principles and building leadership teams who acts as agents of transformations in the organization.