The Governance Dividend | Singapore's Smart Nation Blueprint for Leadership in the AI Era

This book began its life as a doctoral thesis. Dr. Sheetal Jha’s research for the Doctorate of Business Administration at Dunster Business School, Switzerland, asked a deceptively simple question: what actually determines whether a large, complicated, publicly funded technology program succeeds or stalls? Her answer, built from a careful review of leadership and governance theory and tested through a structured study of public-sector professionals working on the front lines of digital transformation, was that the technology itself is rarely the deciding factor. Leadership is. Governance is. The quiet, unglamorous work of building institutional readiness is.