Digital Fluency for Boardrooms: Why Understanding Systems Is the New Literacy

Why system-fluent directors outperform buzzword-literate boards on capital, risk, and speed.

Most boards are digitally literate: they’ve heard of AI, Cloud, and Cyber. But governing a modern enterprise requires digital fluency, the ability to understand how systems, data, and automation actually create value and risk. This article defines digital fluency for boardrooms, breaks it into four systemic pillars, shows how it changes capital allocati…