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Making Sense of DeepSeek

By Jacques Bughin DeepSeek, a large language model built by China, has become both a sensation as well as a source of concern for the...
Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

By Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner A domain-oriented company helps serve a customer’s end-to-end need by focusing on customer outcomes rather than only on...
organisational culture

How to Build the Case for Culture Change 

By David Liddle Workplace culture can be the greatest asset, or the greatest liability, an organisation has. Yet it is widely misunderstood, rarely talked about...

Art and Business

By Dr. Peter Lorange Art and business are typically seen as two different things. While art tends to be associated with beauty, inspiration, and a...
gold

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...

How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital

By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
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Digital for Good: AI fit for progress

Technology, says Hamilton Mann, is not in itself sustainable or positive – it depends on how we choose to develop and apply it.  In this...
Bitcoin

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...
EU AI Act

The EU AI Act: Trustworthy or Reckless AI?

By Jacques Bughin Alongside the lightning-paced advancements in AI, a number of ethical quandaries have emerged, evidenced for example by deep fakes and incidences of...
AI

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...
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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...

What Makes a Business a Masterpiece?

By Peter Lorange No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in...
Business Leadership Paradigm

A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...

By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
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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...
AI savvy

Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer

David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...

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GenAI: Prompting A Better Marketing Strategy

By David Dubois and Joerg Niessing Amid the rise of GenAI, executives must master prompt crafting to optimize their marketing and sales strategies. In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, the ability to craft impactful, audience-centric...
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Navigating the New Frontier: Embracing Talent 5.0 While Paving the Way for Talent 6.0

By Iolanda Triviño, Simon L. Dolan, and Pedro Cesar Martinez In the changing world of employment, it's more important than ever to understand the shifts in talent dynamics that are defining our future as organizational...

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Navigating the New Frontier: Embracing Talent 5.0 While Paving the Way for Talent 6.0

By Iolanda Triviño, Simon L. Dolan, and Pedro Cesar Martinez In the changing world of employment, it's more important than ever to understand the shifts in talent dynamics that are defining our future as organizational...

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