SPOTLIGHT: Humanizing Digital Transformation With Gerald Kane

As many organizations struggle to keep pace with technological
innovations, digital transformation is a top
priority. Gerald Kane, professor of information systems at
the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, joins the
Gartner Talent Angle to explore the opportunities these digital
disruptions create and to inspire HR leaders to approach digital
transformation with confidence. He explains how people and
processes, not just technology, are crucial to successful digital
transformation, and emphasizes the need for leaders to have
growth mindsets and to continually learn while building
adaptability in their organizations.


Dr. Gerald C. Kane is a Professor and the C. Herman and Mary
Virginia Terry Chair in Business Administration at the Terry
College of Business at the University of Georgia.  He
researches and teaches about how companies can understand and
respond to digital disruption to undergraduate, graduate, and
executive education students worldwide; and he has published over
100 papers, articles, and reports on these topics. He has written
two books for MIT Press: The Technology Fallacy: How People are
the Real Key to Digital Transformation and the The Transformation
Myth: Leading Your Organization Through Uncertain Times.


*This episode is an excerpt taken from our 2022 interview.