Author Description

Organizational Digital Transformation: An IT-Enabled Program Approach provides a comprehensive, actionable framework for planning, executing, and sustaining digital transformation across modern enterprises. As organizations navigate heightened competition, accelerated technological change, and rising stakeholder expectations, this book demonstrates why traditional project-by-project upgrades are no longer sufficient. Instead, successful transformation requires a coordinated IT-enabled program management approach-one that integrates interdependent initiatives, aligns strategy with execution, and delivers measurable business value. Drawing on decades of research and real-world managerial insight, the authors walk readers through the entire program management life cycle-from identifying and formulating a transformation program to defining, planning, executing, delivering, and ultimately closing it. Each phase is equipped with tools, templates, governance mechanisms, and decision frameworks designed to help leaders steer complex digital transformations with clarity and discipline. The book builds on themes such as program visioning, blueprint design, benefits realization, stakeholder analysis, risk and resistance management, governance structure, and organizational readiness, all of which are central to ensuring sustained transformation success. Central to the text is the fictional yet highly realistic case study "Digital Transformation of The Sun News," which guides readers through a multi-year transformation journey. Through this extended example, readers observe how a traditional media organization evolves into a digital-first enterprise, applying program management tools to reimagine business processes, modernize IT capabilities, and adapt organizational culture. The case illustrates how program phases unfold, how decisions are made in dynamic environments, and how benefits mapping, project dossiers, and governance structures support enterprise-level