This book is a holistic impact study, replete with real-world examples, of digital transformation enhancing businesses and influencing managers' thinking. It links economic value with digital disruptions, arguing that these disruptions deliver economic benefits, boost shareholder value, and provide societal value. The central discourse is on the ability of digitization to make the world a better place to live in. The book analyses wealth creation due to digital disruption with a global span. It extensively incorporates anecdotal examples of disruptive digitization across countries, accentuating the impact of major digital disruptions. It is targeted at any professional interested in studying digitization's holistic impact. The book provides a discourse on digital topography to make business students industry-ready. Given the pervasive digital economy and a rapidly evolving business world, the book helps practicing managers better appreciate their digital environments. Management students who not only have to survive in this digital landscape but also thrive and chart out a lucrative career will benefit significantly from the book.

Vijay Kumar is an IT corporate professional turned researcher and academician. He has had a successful 25-year corporate tenure of building and managing world-class technology companies in India. He was the Corporate Product Marketing Manager at Wipro before being the India Center Head of Tektronix Engineering, a subsidiary of Tektronix, USA. Vijay later became Chief Operating Officer of Raffles Software, Singapore, and Chief Executive Officer of Mindteck, a public listed software company promoted by a global investment bank. As Managing Director of Manystreams USA and Managing Director of Citec Finland, he led the formation and growth of these companies in India. He was the President of IP consulting at Bizworth, a boutique consulting company.

During his tenure as the Dean of Management Studies at PES University, Bangalore, the MBA program became the most preferred choice of management study in Karnataka and catapulted PES MBA to being the #1 Business School in Karnataka and # 3 in South India in successive years (2020 and 2021, TOI Business Schools ranking).

He is an IFRS Foundation FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) Credential holder and consults in the area of ESG.

His co-authored book 'Global Innovation and Economic Value' (2018) was published by Springer. Dr. Kumar is an Electronics Engineer with an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA, and has a PhD from IIT Madras.

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Vijay Kumar is an IT corporate professional turned researcher and academician. He has had a successful 25-year corporate tenure of building and managing world-class technology companies in India. He was the Corporate Product Marketing Manager at Wipro before being the India Center Head of Tektronix Engineering, a subsidiary of Tektronix, USA. Vijay later became Chief Operating Officer of Raffles Software, Singapore, and Chief Executive Officer of Mindteck, a public listed software company promoted by a global investment bank. As Managing Director of Manystreams USA and Managing Director of Citec Finland, he led the formation and growth of these companies in India. He was the President of IP consulting at Bizworth, a boutique consulting company.

During his tenure as the Dean of Management Studies at PES University, Bangalore, the MBA program became the most preferred choice of management study in Karnataka and catapulted PES MBA to being the #1 Business School in Karnataka and # 3 in South India in successive years (2020 and 2021, TOI Business Schools ranking).

He is an IFRS Foundation FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) Credential holder and consults in the area of ESG.

His co-authored book "Global Innovation and Economic Value" (2018) was published by Springer. Dr. Kumar is an Electronics Engineer with an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA, and has a PhD from IIT Madras.