The influence of dedicated institutional investors on digital transformation strategic decision-making

Abstract

The business South Africa Incorporated (SA INC) has seen an evolution in leveraging technology to remain competitive, through competitiveness the businesses are able to redefine themselves and invest in operating better and remain competitive, one of the ways to do this through digital transformation has become the way in which business can themselves. The study aimed at understanding the phenomenon undertook a path of understanding the behaviour of the companies and through the concept of dynamic capacities and the extent to which value can be created through adopting digital transformation in investee companies. This study explored and adopted an exploratory, qualitative research design, the data was gathered from 15 semi structured interviews with companies that are theme investees and experts in the field also referred to as investors of SA Inc. Three various components (1) Digital transformation, and how this relates to (2) decision making and lastly how (3) institutional investors can help drive how these companies can reinvent themselves for new revenues and competitiveness to gain or retain market share. The research outcomes seemed to have suggestions for managers that, although digital transformation is well understood and so are its benefits to business should focus change management for its customers, employees the type of skills they hire to further enhance digital transformation and get scaling and efficiencies through it