How Should a Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation?
By Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck
Engaging in digital transformation is a dilemma. Either the transformation is aggressive enough to scale,- but brings the...
Sorting Out the AI Gold Rush? Ten Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
By Jacques Bughin and Duco Sickinghe
As the AI boom continues to accelerate, investors are keenly eyeing the generative AI sector for potential breakthroughs. Jacques...
Bitcoin is 15: Towards Adulthood or Speculative Bubble?
By Jacques Bughin
Globally, more than 15,000 businesses accept Bitcoin. To date, high flyers such as Microsoft, AT&T, Starbucks, Gucci, and Shopify accept Bitcoin in...
Why Fixing the Planet is also about Seizing Business Opportunities
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Dr Jacques Bughin and Yuhui Xiong
Companies’ efforts to become more sustainable can often be driven by regulation or government...
AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World
By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin
The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
“Net better Off?” Why companies should scale new, tech-based flexible work practices
By Jacques Bughin, Sybille Berjoan and Yuhui Xiong
By 2022, Shopify, a well-known global next-generation e-commerce platform had secured a perennial flexible work arrangement scheme...
The Key Success Factors of a Powerful AI Factory
By Jacques Bughin
More and more companies are leveraging data and deep machine learning algorithms, leading to the emergence of the "AI factory" model. As...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
Sorting Out the AI Gold Rush? Ten Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
By Jacques Bughin and Duco Sickinghe
As the AI boom continues to accelerate, investors are keenly eyeing the generative AI sector for potential breakthroughs. Jacques...
Everybody Loves … Nvidia
By Dr. Jacques Bughin
Semiconductors are positioned at the forefront of innovation and digital transformation. With companies like Nvidia leading the charge and the semiconductor...
Hacking Trustworthy AI
By Jacques Bughin
In the aftermath of the initial AI tidal wave that has rolled across business and industry, there are signs that the emphasis...
Symbian or Uber? Thriving or Collapsing in Digital Business Ecosystems
By Jacques Bughin
“In an avalanche, no snowflake ever felt accountable,” - Voltairei
What makes successful digital business ecosystems? Beyond a common evolutionary vision, we discuss...
Crisis? What crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann and Philippe Roussière
Whether it's a global pandemic, a major geopolitical conflict nearby, or now a rise in inflation that...
Inside the Journey of a Decacorn
By Jacques Bughin
Start-ups – and their unicorn, and now decacorn, darlings – are critical both for value creation as well as for economic growth...
How AI Liberates the Transition to a Skill-Based Organisation
By Jacques Bughin and Jeroen Van Hautte
What do companies as diverse as Booking.com, Accenture, Revolut, GSK, Walmart, or Unilever have in common? Answer: they have...
Breaking Down Business Resilience, Post-Pandemic: The Data Reveal Surprises—and a Blueprint for Moving Forward.
By Jacques Bughin and Francis Hintermann
The global pandemic, in addition to generating massive harm to people’s health and communities, split the business world in...
Looking beyond ChatGPT: Why AI Reinforcement Learning is Set for Prime Time
By Jacques Bughin
Companies must master AI—and all techniques, whether it is (un)supervised learning or reinforcement learning as is set to revolutionise predictive powers and...
The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise
By Jacques Bughin, Philippe Roussière, and Praveen Tanguturi
As more traditional companies are investing in AI, we explore best practices used by leaders to transform...
How Productive Is Generative AI Really?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The...
2024: What is the Near Future of Generative AI?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative AI has already made a big splash, but just how wet we're all going to get in the future is still...
Now It is Time for AI Transformation
By Jacques Bughin and Ivan Gjepali
Unsurprisingly, the focus in the application of AI in business and industry to date has been on the potential...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
Strategising GenAI: Open Source or Proprietary LLMs?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are in the process of defining a future where the battlegrounds of business innovation and...
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