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
