본 연구는 제조기업의 디지털 리더십이 디지털 준비도, 디지털 전환, 디지털 플랫폼 역량과 디지털 사업성과에 미치는 영향 관계를 규명하고자 하는 목적을 두었다. 본 연구에서는 문헌고찰을 통해 가설을 도출하고 PLS를 이용하여 검증하였다. 국내에서 디지털 마케팅을 수행하는 제조회사의 디지털 업무를 이해하는 직원 132명 이상을 대상으로 표본을 추출하였고, 가설 검증 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 디지털 리더십은 디지털 준비도에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 디지털 리더십이 디지털 플랫폼 역량에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 디지털 준비도는 디지털 전환에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 디지털 플랫폼 역량이 디지털 전환에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 디지털 전환은 디지털 사업성과에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과를 토대로 연구의 이론적 시사점과 실무적 시사점을 제시하였다. 구체적 실무적 시사점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 제조기업의 CEO는 디지털 기술을 준비하는 과정에서 디지털 리더십을 구현하고 관리하여 경쟁우위를 확보하여 조직의 디지털 전환과 디지털 사업 성과에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있도록 해야 한다. 둘째, 제조기업의 CEO는 디지털 리더십을 통해 조직의 디지털 플랫폼 역량을 관리하고, 디지털 비즈니스 개선과 성장을 위한 경영 활동을 계획해야 한다. 셋째, CEO는 디지털 비즈니스 성과를 위한 디지털 준비성과 디지털 플랫폼 역량의 중요성을 제고하기 위해 노력해야 하며, 이러한 영역을 극대화하고 디지털 비즈니스 성과에 영향을 미치기 위해서는 디지털 리더십의 구현 및 관리가 필요하다. 마지막으로, 제조업체는 디지털 비즈니스 모델 설계 또는 혁신, 스마트 팩토리 도입, 디지털 유통망 개선, 스마트 공급망 관리 등 다양한 디지털 전환 모델 중에서 자신에게 적합하고 경쟁우위를 달성할 수 있는 계획을 적용해야 한다.
Purpose: In this study, investigate the effect of digital leadership of manufacturing companies on digital management performance, and among them, the relationship between digital readiness, digital transformation, and digital platform capabilities was investigated. The purpose of this study was to provide implications through empirical analysis. Research design, data, and methodology: This study derived a hypothesis through a literature review and verified it using PLS. A sample was taken from 132 employees or higher with an understanding of digital marketing and work relevance (direct or indirect) from a manufacturing company that conducts digital marketing in Korea, and the results of verifying the hypothesis are as follows. Results: The results for study revealed that, first, it was confirmed that digital leadership did not directly affect digital transformation. Second, digital leadership was found to have a significant positive effect on digital readiness. Third, it was found that digital leadership had a significant positive effect on digital platform capability. Fourth, digital readiness was found to have a significant positive effect on digital transformation. Fifth, it was found that digital platform capability had a significant positive effect on digital transformation. Finally, it was found that digital transformation had a significant positive effect on digital business performance. Conclusions: First, it was confirmed that digital leadership had a positive effect on digital readiness. Accordingly, the CEO of a manufacturing company should secure a competitive advantage by implementing and managing digital leadership in the process of preparing digital technology so that it can positively affect the organization’s digital transformation and digital business performance. The importance of the CEO’s leadership is always emerging, but it is not implemented and it is difficult to prepare and manage digital technology. Therefore, the CEO must manage the organization’s digital readiness to improve through digital leadership in order to affect the performance of the digital business. Through this, it is thought that the competitive advantage in the market, corporate awareness, and customer satisfaction will also improve through the use and development of various digital technologies such as automated business processing and customer information analysis of manufacturing companies in the future. Second, it was confirmed that digital leadership had a positive effect on digital platform capabilities. Accordingly, the CEO of a manufacturing company needs to manage the organization’s digital platform capabilities through digital leadership, and plan management activities to improve the digital business and grow the digital business. This digital platform capability is the capability to produce, search, deliver, and coordinate big data through capabilities such as creating consumer inflow content and collecting customer information (De Reuber et al., 2018), and through this, it is thought that it will be possible to secure a competitive advantage of a company and improve customer satisfaction while providing a better environment for products and services to customers. Third, it was confirmed that digital readiness, digital platform capabilities, and digital transformation all affect digital business performance in the relationship between digital leadership and digital business performance. However, it was confirmed that digital leadership and digital transformation did not have a direct effect. In other words, the CEO must strive to improve the importance of digital readiness and digital platform capabilities for digital business performance, and the implementation and management of digital leadership is necessary to maximize these areas and affect digital business performance. In addition, it is thought that unity and practice at the organizational level are necessary to think about digital innovation and secure a competitive advantage in the digital era.