Thought Leadership Series: Hype, Hope, and Realistic Expectations of Digitalisation.
This is the first session in our 2026 Thought Leadership Series.
Digital transformation and digital maturity require clarity – leaders who distinguish hype and hope from genuine capability are better placed to facilitate digital advancement of their organisation and their people. This session will adopt Gartner’s Hype Cycle to examine a range of digital advances, particularly AI, exposing inflated expectations and promoting realisable applications of emerging digital technologies.
Registrations
Thought Leadership Series 2026: Leading Through Digitalisation
Our 2026 online thought leadership series features three concise and impactful sessions on the leadership of just transitions:
- Hype, hope and realistic expectations of digitalisation.
- Digitalisation across the organisation, and
- Digitalisation in professional practice.
As strategic leaders continue to confront rapid advances in digital technologies, we face growing pressure to redesign business models, reimagine value creation, and guide our people through increasingly complex transitions. In 2026, our Thought Leadership Series will provide insights for critical examination and leadership of digitalisation across organisations and within one’s own professional practice.
Taken together, digitalisation, digital transformation, and digital maturity provide the conceptual foundation of the series. Digitalisation hinges on the realistic and purposeful application of digital technologies to rethink business models and create new opportunities to generate value. Digital transformation takes the thinking a step further to integrate digital advancements within organisational operations and/or professional processes. But consistently making these shifts productive over the long term depends on developing digital maturity – the capability to integrate existing and emerging advancements in digital technology thoughtfully, effectively, and responsibly over time.
Instead of focusing on the technologies in isolation, the series aims to show how leaders can prepare themselves, their organisations, and their people for waves of digital advances that will continue to emerge across decades to come.
By the end of this series, you will develop a grounded understanding of where digital technologies sit in the Hype Cycle, how to distinguish genuine opportunities from hype, and how to navigate the dynamics of digitalisation for organisational performance and professional practice.
Event Details
- Date:
- 7 May 2026 at 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
- Categories:
- MBA Alumni
Description
This is the first session in our 2026 Thought Leadership Series.
Digital transformation and digital maturity require clarity – leaders who distinguish hype and hope from genuine capability are better placed to facilitate digital advancement of their organisation and their people. This session will adopt Gartner’s Hype Cycle to examine a range of digital advances, particularly AI, exposing inflated expectations and promoting realisable applications of emerging digital technologies.
Registrations
Thought Leadership Series 2026: Leading Through Digitalisation
Our 2026 online thought leadership series features three concise and impactful sessions on the leadership of just transitions:
- Hype, hope and realistic expectations of digitalisation.
- Digitalisation across the organisation, and
- Digitalisation in professional practice.
As strategic leaders continue to confront rapid advances in digital technologies, we face growing pressure to redesign business models, reimagine value creation, and guide our people through increasingly complex transitions. In 2026, our Thought Leadership Series will provide insights for critical examination and leadership of digitalisation across organisations and within one’s own professional practice.
Taken together, digitalisation, digital transformation, and digital maturity provide the conceptual foundation of the series. Digitalisation hinges on the realistic and purposeful application of digital technologies to rethink business models and create new opportunities to generate value. Digital transformation takes the thinking a step further to integrate digital advancements within organisational operations and/or professional processes. But consistently making these shifts productive over the long term depends on developing digital maturity – the capability to integrate existing and emerging advancements in digital technology thoughtfully, effectively, and responsibly over time.
Instead of focusing on the technologies in isolation, the series aims to show how leaders can prepare themselves, their organisations, and their people for waves of digital advances that will continue to emerge across decades to come.
By the end of this series, you will develop a grounded understanding of where digital technologies sit in the Hype Cycle, how to distinguish genuine opportunities from hype, and how to navigate the dynamics of digitalisation for organisational performance and professional practice.