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In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which introduced the idea of a paradigm shift in the natural sciences. Kuhn described how science normally advances by the accumulation of new information, which then broadens and deepens our understanding of a particular topic within a generally accepted worldview. Kuhn's insight was that periodically science also experiences disruptive transitional stages when anomalous experimental results challenge that established worldview. The typical response from the scientific community is initial scepticism and increasingly strident efforts to force-fit the new data into the existing paradigm. Those who have built their careers and reputations within the old worldview have too much invested to just toss it aside and often see the new evidence as a personal affront. As the contrary evidence accumulates, alternative theories are proposed that better fit the data and this creative theorising then triggers a self-reflective crisis in the field. Eventually, the experimental evidence becomes overwhelming, and the scientific community is forced to adopt a new paradigm and the cycle begins again as the new theoretical framework is codified and expanded. One of the most famous examples of this type of transition was the attempt to keep adding complexity to Ptolemy's geocentric view of the solar system before the eventual acceptance that the Copernican heliocentric model had far better explanatory power. But even after this type of paradigm shift, many of the old guard find it difficult to accept the change. As physicist Max Planck famously observed, ‘a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it’.

The World Economic Forum has described the current transition to a primarily digital economy as the Fourth Industrial Revolution because it has many hallmarks of the type of paradigm shift Kuhn described in the natural sciences. For many business leaders, the twentieth-century orthodoxy they grew up in was defined by ideas like using brand advertising to build differentiation and market share, digging competitive moats to protect their business via physical distribution partnerships, adding incremental growth through cautious international expansion, and managing the profitability of mature businesses through efficiency and pricing. Like Ptolemaic astronomers, these leaders built successful careers by executing playbooks grounded in these business truths and not surprisingly many have struggled as this orthodoxy has been challenged and upended by the digital revolution. We now live in a world where a new technology like ChatGPT can attract a million users within days of launch and a billion within a few months – a world in which traditional barriers to entry have collapsed and new business ideas can be brought to market in a matter of weeks. A world in which the established economics of supply and demand, of scale curves and marginal cost, and of protected intellectual property have been replaced by an attention-driven economy where many products and services are free at the point of use and instantly available. In many sectors like retail or entertainment, it feels like the paradigm has already shifted, but the reality is we are still in the early days of this business revolution and the pace of change will continue to accelerate as we grapple with the impact of immersive augmented reality/virtual reality, generative artificial intelligence, scaled quantum computing, and many other exciting technological developments that are far from mature.

While the digital paradigm shift is far from over, we are now far enough into the transition to start the process of codification, take the lessons learned from the last couple of decades, and begin to write a new playbook that helps business leaders navigate this rapidly changing and often disorientating new environment. That is the daunting challenge that Garvan Callan has taken on in this comprehensive attempt to describe what good business strategy looks like in the digital age. Just as journalism is often viewed as a first draft of history, any attempt to impose a coherent framework on something as dynamic and fast changing as the digital business environment risks being proved wrong within months or even weeks. However, I believe what Garvan has done in this book will stand the test of time, as it focuses less on the answer and more on the questions to be asked and the processes that business leaders need to follow to build confidence in their strategic direction.

Garvan grounds his approach in a couple of key insights. One is that – regardless of the nature of the end product – every business is now a digital business. Even when the customer product is satisfyingly physical like Starbucks coffee or Warby Parker glasses, digital technology can have a transformative effect on the entire value chain, from sourcing and product design to payments and customer service. Only by decomposing a business into its component parts and then rigorously interrogating how better data, collaboration, and technology can improve each component can the true potential of digital be realised. While the revolutionary ideas will often grab the headlines, huge value can be created by disciplined evolutionary approaches that incrementally flesh out a new digital approach to seemingly mundane back-office processes and support functions.

Garvan's second key insight is that there is a huge difference between a digital start-up with no legacy, inertia, cultural baggage, or existing stakeholders and an established business looking to reinvent itself. The seduction of digital for many successful businesses is that it is something that can be done on the periphery without disrupting day-to-day operations. That digital can be a side project that will hopefully one day absorb the legacy organisation as it scales and evolves. Garvan rightly identifies that true digital transformation must happen at the heart of an established business to be truly successful. That is a harder, longer, and more complex endeavour than blank sheet of paper innovation because complex digital transformation isn't just about a new idea, it's also about a complex multifaceted process that needs to be managed, iterated, course-corrected, and appropriately governed to be successful. I would often comment to my clients that if they still had a ‘chief digital officer’ on the org chart, then they weren't truly a digital business, and Garvan does a great job of showing how digital thinking needs to permeate every part of an organisation to graduate from incremental change to true transformation.

While that challenge can be daunting in both its scope and complexity, Garvan provides a great roadmap that curates the very best frameworks, tools, and approaches developed over the last 50 years as he unpacks the strategy process from customer insight generation through enabling capabilities and competences to replicable execution. He also adds his own memorable and thought-provoking contributions to the digital corpus in the form of ideas like the ‘Waltzer effect’ and ‘spin-out syndrome’. By necessity, there is a lot of theory in any attempt to comprehensively describe an approach to digital business strategy, but Garvan consistently leavens it with numerous corporate case studies (both successes and failures) that bring the theory to life, and which flesh out his archetypes of successful digital strategy.

A decade ago, the idea that every business was a digital business was still considered heresy by many leaders whose success, expertise, and personal identity were grounded in the physical business world. Thankfully the paradigm has now shifted as economic value has migrated to digital innovators across broad swathes of the global economy. As current and future generations of business leaders grapple with the implications of competing in a truly digital economy, I hope many of them turn to Garvan's ‘digital business strategy’ as a roadmap that can help them navigate the coming decades with confidence and success.