Wiley Announces the Release of Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation

15 January 2025

New York, January 15, 2025 - Today Wiley launches a new book, Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation, written by veteran consultant and Marie Kondo of enterprise tech, Sara Teitelman. Features practical methods for decluttering the digital workplace while boosting employee productivity and happiness.

In Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation: Leading a Mindful Redesign of the Digital Enterprise, veteran digital transformation consultant, Sara Teitelman, MPH, shares her proven process for improving the state of an organization’s enterprise technology in ways that boost employee happiness and productivity. Grounded in best practices from human-centered design, knowledge management, and change management, these methods will help organizations of all sizes assess the performance of their digital tools and develop a phased plan of action for decluttering their digital landscape and realizing the full value of their IT investments. Importantly, it is these same actions that will position organizations to make best use of the growing collection of highly sophisticated, AI-driven capabilities that will soon be part of every workplace.

Case studies and downloadable templates developed over hundreds of successful client projects are included to help readers immediately put the concepts presented to work. In this book, readers will learn how to:

Assess the current state of their enterprise technology and uncover the ways that it is hindering productivity and employee satisfaction
Quantify and reduce IT spend on recurring software subscriptions
Address IT system overlap and duplication to streamline business processes and reduce user confusion
Provide employees with clear guidelines and training on use of their enterprise digital tools
Involve people from across the organization in technology decision-making to reduce inter-departmental friction and uncover synergies

The antidote to an issue plaguing nearly every modern enterprise, Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation is an essential guide for all business leaders, executives, and managers seeking to tame their enterprise IT landscape and pave the way to higher employee satisfaction and a healthier bottom line.

Sara Teitelman’s Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation will enable business leaders to achieve their full potential with digital transformation by cultivating a mindful approach to digital maturity. This is a must read book that applies a human centric approach to doing more with less.

R “Ray” Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, Inc., Co-Host of DisrupTV, Bestselling Author

If your company is bogged down by a proliferation of duplicative tech, use Zen and the Art of Digital Transformation to discover where your organization can streamline and take back your digital advantage. Teitelman's book is an essential how-to manual in decluttering the disheveled closet of your digital workplace, Marie Kondo-style.

Nathan Fisher, Director, Internal Communication, Databricks, Formerly Tesla and Google

Author Bio

Sara is CEO of the digital transformation consulting firm, Ideal State, which she co-founded in 2016 after a 15-year career in the international health and development sector. She has been a featured speaker at industry conferences including Digital Workplace Experience, KMWorld, APQC, and NTEN on the topics of digital transformation and knowledge management, and holds a master’s of public health (MPH) degree from the University of Washington. Sara’s professional journey has taken her to more than 20 countries in the capacity of an educator, documentarian, and digital strategist. As lead strategist for many of Ideal State's projects, Sara blends the practices of knowledge management, human-centered design, and change management to bring a people-first orientation to every engagement. Outside of work, Sara enjoys spending time in the great outdoors in her adopted hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico together with her husband, Jeremy, and their young daughter, Abigail.

Book now available for purchase in hardcover and e-book at the following retailers:

Author is available for interviews, virtual or in-person, as well as public speaking and training engagements in the US and abroad.

Author Direct Contact Information: Sara Teitelman, sara@idealstate.co, (505) 670-3606, www.sarateitelman.com

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