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The "g-f story" of going beyond digital to win
- No matter how many digital initiatives you implement, you can’t expect to build real, longterm competitive advantage by being the same as your competitors or doing what you’ve always done—even if you’re now doing it a bit faster and more efficiently than before.
- Instead, companies need to move beyond digital.
- Top companies do this by starting with a big challenge and then building differentiation (digitally) in the capabilities they own.
- Digital technology plays an important role in all these capabilities—but these capabilities involve much more than technology.
- They require dynamic combinations of a knowledge base, processes, technologies, data, skills, culture, and organizational models that together allow companies to create value in ways that others cannot.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Paul Leinwand
Paul Leinwand is global managing director of capabilities-driven strategy and growth for Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. He is a principal with PwC US.
Paul Leinwand is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and Global Managing Director, leading the Firm's approach to Capabilities Driven Strategy and Growth for Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting business (previously Booz & Company where he became a senior partner). In his tenure with the Firm, Mr. Leinwand has held numerous roles, including leading the global corporate and business unit strategy team, the global marketing and knowledge management organizations and the Firm's thought leadership team. Mr Leinwand serves global clients through large scale strategy and transformation efforts. He currently leads the Firm's business at the intersection of consumer and health, working with large consumer organizations and healthcare systems.
Mr. Leinwand has co-authored a series of books with Harvard, including
Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future (Harvard Business Press, 2022),
Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy through Execution Gap (Harvard Business Press, 2016),
The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy (Harvard Business Press, 2010) and
Cut Costs & Grow Stronger (Harvard Business Press, 2009). He has also co-authored many articles on strategy and leadership with HBR, including
Why Are We Here?,
The Coherence Premium,
Digitizing isn't the same as Digital Transformation,
6 Leadership Paradoxes for the Post-Pandemic Era,
The Cure for the Non-For-Profit Crisis,
Ask an Expert: How Do I Become a CEO?,
Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive,
Not Just Your Product, as well as articles with the Wall Street Journal and Strategy + Business.
Mr. Leinwand has spoken about these topics at numerous events and forums, and also served on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils.
Mr. Leinwand is a Board Director for The Genuine Scooter Company and the Goodman Theatre, and has served as a strategic advisor to many nonprofits. He has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mahadeva Matt Mani
Mahadeva Matt Mani leads the transformation platform for PwC and Strategy&, advising executives on business model transformations and operational value creation and productivity programs. He is a principal with PwC US.
As the global leader of PwC and Strategy&'s transformation platform, he works with companies and leaders across industries to achieve fundamental improvements in business performance and organization cost & effectiveness.
With over 25 years of industry and consulting experience, Matt works across industries, including in the consumer goods, retail, technology, healthcare, life sciences, industrial manufacturing and aerospace and defense sectors. He is the co-author of the book "Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future," published by Harvard Business Review Press. He has also co-authore multiple articles on value creation and business transformation in Harvard Business Review and strategy+business, including “Digitizing Isn’t the Same as Digital Transformation,” “6 Leadership Paradoxes for the Post-Pandemic Era,” and “The Redefined No of the CFO,” “How to Engender a Performance Culture.”
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The "g-f story" of going beyond digital to win in a “g-f KBP” Chart
The “genioux facts” Knowledge Big Picture (g-f KBP) standard chart
This "g-f story" is a knowledge block made up of 10 blocks of “genioux fact fast solution” or ultra-condensed golden knowledge juice.
- Drawing on research of transformative companies, PwC Strategy& authors recommend ways that executive teams can disrupt themselves and become leaders in the digital age. g-f(2)947
- No matter how many digital initiatives you implement, you can’t expect to build real, longterm competitive advantage by being the same as your competitors or doing what you’ve always done—even if you’re now doing it a bit faster and more efficiently than before.
- Instead, companies need to move beyond digital.
- Top companies do this by starting with a big challenge and then building differentiation (digitally) in the capabilities they own.
- They get their differentiated capabilities right, and then the flow of digital-powered products, services, solutions, and experiences naturally follows.
- Think about Apple’s design capability, which has allowed it to disrupt every industry it has entered. Or consider Frito-Lay’s rapid flavor innovation, which lets it quickly produce new flavors when it senses demand—for instance, a mac and cheese flavor for Cheetos.
- Digital technology plays an important role in all these capabilities—but these capabilities involve much more than technology.
- They require dynamic combinations of a knowledge base, processes, technologies, data, skills, culture, and organizational models that together allow companies to create value in ways that others cannot.
- So, what’s the best path forward? In writing our book, Beyond Digital, we conducted, over more than two years, a research effort into a dozen companies whose collective experiences contrast starkly with those focused merely on digitizing.
- Learning from these dozen organizations’ successes and failures, we identified seven leadership imperatives to go beyond digital and shape the future. g-f(2)947
Reference
g-f(2)947 THE NEW WORLD (2/18/2022), PwC + s+b, Seven imperatives for moving beyond digital
Condensed knowledge
- CONTEXT: The Golden Knowledge Path ("GKPath") digital highway
Opportunity, Discovering and exploiting the treasure of the digital age
- "genioux facts", the online programme on MASTERING “THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE”, builds The Golden Knowledge Path (GKPath) digital highway to discovering and exploiting the treasure of the digital age, accelerating everyone's success in the digital age. g-f(2)254, g-f(2)260, g-f(2)261, g-f(2)251, g-f(2)312, g-f(2)256, g-f(2)257, g-f(2)272, g-f(2)271, g-f(2)270, g-f(2)268, g-f(2)269, g-f(2)289, g-f(2)283, g-f(2)287, g-f(2)313, g-f(2)293, g-f(2)294, g-f(2)296, g-f(2)298
- The inverted mini pyramid of knowledge, g-f(256), is essential to travel on the "GKPath" highway.
- g-f(2)256 The Big Picture of the Digital Age (5/2/2021), geniouxfacts, The fundamental knowledge mini-pyramid for traveling on the "GKPath" highway.
- Key "genioux facts" to travel on the "GKPath" highway.
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The "g-f story" of going beyond digital to win in a “g-f KBP” Graphic
The “genioux facts” Knowledge Big Picture (g-f KBP) graphic
Reference
g-f(2)947 THE NEW WORLD (2/18/2022), PwC + s+b, Seven imperatives for moving beyond digital
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Some examples of "g-f stories"
A "g-f story" can be described by a "g-f KBP" graphic. From one "g-f KBP" chart we can design many "g-f KBP" graphics.
- g-f(2)45 "The Big Picture of the Digital Age": Knowledge opens the way to staggering opportunities, risks and challenges
- g-f(2)75 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE: “Infinite Learners” to keep pace with change, incertitude and disruption, in a hypercompetitive environment
- g-f(2)100 The Big Picture of the Digital Age, MIT SMR, LEADERSHIP’S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. Leading Purposefully in an Era of Context Collapse.
- g-f(2)151 The Big Picture of the Digital Transformation, 3/1/2021, geniouxfacts, How To Succeed At Business Digital Transformation.
- g-f(2)153 The Big Picture of Business Artificial Intelligence (3/3/2021) in a Single “g-f KBP” Chart
- g-f(2)156 The Big Picture of the Digital Transformation, 3/5/2021, MIT SMR, Digital savviness is the key ingredient in the success of corporate digital transformation.
- g-f(2)221 The Big Picture of the Digital Age (4/15/2021), MIT SMR-Deloitte, The Workforce Ecosystems in a “g-f KBP” Chart.
- g-f(2)256 The Big Picture of the Digital Age (5/2/2021), geniouxfacts, The fundamental knowledge mini-pyramid for traveling on the "GKPath" highway.
- g-f(2)364 The big picture of your life (7/9/2021), geniouxfacts, The path to your greatness and your Personal Digital Transformation (PDT) in a “g-f KBP” Chart.
- g-f(2)164 The Big Picture of the Digital Transformation, 3/11/2021, HBR, Persuading the Unpersuadable.
- g-f(2)169 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE (3/15/2021), Harvard, Harvard EdCast: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age.
- g-f(2)178 THE BIG PICTURE OF BUSINESS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (3/24/2021), MIT SMR, How HR Leaders Are Preparing for the AI-Enabled Workforce.
- g-f(2)179 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE (3/25/2021), MIT SMR, A Paradox No More: Investing in Automation and People.
- g-f(2)180 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE (3/26/2021), MIT SMR, An Emerging Landscape of Skills for All.
Reference
g-f(2)942 THE NEW WORLD (2/16/2022), The Story of the New World in a “g-f KBP” Chart
Some relevant characteristics of this "genioux fact"
- Category 2: The Big Picture of the Digital Age
- [genioux fact deduced or extracted from PwC + s+b]
- This is a “genioux fact fast solution.”
- Tag Opportunities those travelling at high speed on GKPath
- Type of essential knowledge of this “genioux fact”: Essential Analyzed Knowledge (EAK).
- Type of validity of the "genioux fact".
- Inherited from sources + Supported by the knowledge of one or more experts + Supported by research.
- Authors of the genioux fact
References
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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- A list of relevant "genioux facts" that describe a "Classical CONTEXT" of the Digital Age
- g-f(2)45 "The Big Picture of the Digital Age": Knowledge opens the way to staggering opportunities, risks and challenges
- g-f(2)50 The Big Picture of the Digital Age: Mines of Golden Knowledge Growing Every Day
- g-f(2)74 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE: Rapid change, incertitude and disruption, in a hypercompetitive environment
- g-f(1)28 The pyramid of knowledge of a “genioux fact”: From GOLD FRUITS to GOLD JUICES
- g-f(2)51 The Big Picture of the Digital Age: The Value of Golden Knowledge is Relative
- g-f(2)99 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE, The “genioux facts”: Essential knowledge to unleash your limitless growth.
- g-f(2)75 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE: “Infinite Learners” to keep pace with change, incertitude and disruption, in a hypercompetitive environment
- g-f(2)151 The Big Picture of the Digital Transformation, 3/1/2021, geniouxfacts, How To Succeed At Business Digital Transformation.
- g-f(2)153 The Big Picture of Business Artificial Intelligence (3/3/2021) in a Single “g-f KBP” Chart
- g-f(2)174 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE (3/20/2021), geniouxfacts, Executive guide of golden knowledge to fire up your unlimited growth.
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