Realities of digital management. A review of the book “Digital Management Practice” (Springer, 2024)

Abstract

Digital management issues are extensive and are often considered from a general theoretical point of view, which makes manifestation of well-systematized practical guidelines relevant. The article presents a review of a recent and successful work on digital governance. The book consists of two introductory sections and 12 chapters combined into three parts. The issues considered in the reviewed work relate to digitalization processes and their impact on management activities, collective intelligence, and the possibilities of its application in organizational management implementation, as well as artificial intelligence, its technologies, and prospects for their use in modern management. It is strongly recommended that these technologies be implemented as part of pilot projects with testing of their effectiveness and subsequent retrofitting. It is established that the author does not focus on purely technological aspects, but, firstly, shows the continuity and interrelation of “classical” and digital management and, secondly, focuses on a manager’s personality and new challenges for them in the context of digitalization. The book is characterized by an academic, but at the same time simple and well-structured presentation of complex material. There are a lot of specifics, examples, and recommendations. Some aspects of digital management remained out of the author’s of the book field of view, but such incompleteness is inevitable. The book can be useful for specialists, teachers, and university students, as well as managers themselves.

Keywords

• bibliographical analysis
• industry 4.0
• artificial intelligence
• collective intelligence
• cognition
• management principles
• decision-making
• technologies
• digitalization
• knowledge work