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This book and its stories are of most value to other digital government leaders out there. You could be a chief information officer, chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or head of a digital and technology agency. Titles do not matter, as long as your job is to lead digital change in the whole of your government.

The book might resonate most powerfully for those just starting in such roles because you can immediately set sights and get tips to make a step change on how your organization delivers. However, mid-role leaders also can get a much-sought-after new inspiration on how to tweak and improve their team's and their own work further.

I think—and hope—that this collection of practically implementable, effective practices and thinking models is widely useful for any digital government practitioner, managers, and specialists who want to do their job in the best manner possible. Anyone can adopt the practices from here and make their team more effective in digital government delivery or suggest these practices to their leadership after reading the book.

That is why the book is for digital government policymakers and builders from around the world. From all levels of government. Whether in policy or technical delivery role, whatever the title. Whether in ministries or agencies, although especially in digital coordination units and digital service or govtech teams. Whether in a whole-of-government or policy domain responsibility—digital transformation as a challenge and as a practice is in some ways the same everywhere.

I would hope that even politicians, especially ministers in charge of digital government area in their jurisdiction, and parliamentarians could also find this book useful. If they want to up their government's digital game, here they can get a glimpse on what kinds of leaders to select and how to best empower them or work with them.

In addition, the book could be useful for anyone studying the field, whether in academic circles, where there is a growing number of professors teaching digital government courses around the world, or to their students (especially graduate level). Or to a growing number of researchers studying and doing reports as analysts in the field of digital government lessons and success. I hope that you can include the leadership and management aspects more now.

For the same reason, I do see that consultants and experts who increasingly work on advising digital government initiatives and teams around the world, from national to local levels (including in international organizations), should also find the book to be of great use. If you do not include leadership aspects in your advice, you are doing your clients and their countries a disservice!

Last but not least: some bits and parts, the book can be useful beyond the public sector sphere. I believe that practitioners, consultants, academics working on and studying digital transformation and digital leadership in any sectors, especially in big corporate settings, can find several insights relevant to their work. The lessons learned and practices shown are often not government-specific at all; they are universally applicable to any digital change team or leadership role. In exactly the same way, the practice of digital strategy and delivery in government has benefited from learning from private sector examples.