Charles Araujo

Founder

Charles Araujo is a technology analyst and internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and Leadership in the Digital Era who advises technology companies and enterprise leaders on how to navigate the transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era. Having spent over thirty years in the technology industry, he has been researching Digital Transformation long before it became the uber-buzzword of today, and is now focused on helping Digital Era Leaders prepare themselves and their organizations as the macro trends of the primacy of the customer and the primacy of the algorithm collide, ushering us into what he calls The New Human Age.

Former Principal Analyst with Intellyx, founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation, author of three books, and most recently the co-founder (with his wife) of The MAPS Institute, he is a sought-after keynote speaker and has been quoted or published in CIO, Time, InformationWeek, CIO Insight, NetworkWorld, Computerworld, USA Today, and Forbes.

Charlie has published the following articles on our site:

Trust, Transparency and Creating Business Value

Trust, Transparency and Creating Business Value

To contribute business value, IT has to understand the organization’s mission, vision and strategies. All of that starts with trust ... Read More
Three Questions For Strategic Leaders

Three Questions For Strategic Leaders

A strategic leader understands his or her company’s mission, possesses a vision and a plan for realizing it, and can ... Read More
The Art of Being a Great IT Leader

The Art of Being a Great IT Leader

A great IT leader has a vision, practices servant leadership, is accountable to others, and has a personal relationship with ... Read More
The Four Roles of the New IT Leader

The Four Roles of the New IT Leader

The roles of the new IT leader include trend spotter, negotiator and mediator, information weaver, and business process innovator. I ... Read More
The One Simple Choice That Transforms Managers Into Agile, Adaptable and Human Leaders

The One Simple Choice That Transforms Managers Into Agile, Adaptable and Human Leaders

In my years working with large organizations, I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that they all seem to operate ... Read More
Why Self-Organization and Decentralization Will Be The Management Model of the Digital Era

Why Self-Organization and Decentralization Will Be The Management Model of the Digital Era

In previous articles, I explored why it was essential that you transform your business and operating model if you want ... Read More
Why Business and Operating Model Transformation is Now Essential to Remain Relevant in the Digital Era

Why Business and Operating Model Transformation is Now Essential to Remain Relevant in the Digital Era

There is something that always gets under my skin. While there is near-infinite buzz around topics like digital transformation, the ... Read More
New Research Explains Why Your Transformational Efforts are Doomed

New Research Explains Why Your Transformational Efforts are Doomed

I predict that this will be one of my most-read articles. The reason is the old newspaper axiom: if it bleeds, ... Read More
Will There Be No Jobs in the Future of Work?

Will There Be No Jobs in the Future of Work?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve become much more selective about what email newsletters I subscribe to these days ... Read More