The Impact of Blockchain on the Energy Sector – Expectations from German Energy Executives
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How do energy executives see the potential of the Blockchain? Is it just hype, or...
Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective. Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...
Social Media and the Business of Trust
By Wilfried Vanhonacker
How far is too far in gleaning user data and handing this over to advertisers, even though the aim is to continue...
The Digital Transformation Journey: Four Steps to Success
By Carlos Cordón and Teresa Ferreiro
Traditional businesses know that if they want to survive the digital revolution, they need to make changes, but where...
Unlocking the Internet of Things
By John Bates
Big data is amassing like snow in a blizzard, forming an avalanche that threatens to bury anyone who ignores it. Below, John...
Mobile Customer App Engagement Pays Off
By Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner
The popularity of the smartphone has exploded, and continues to do so. The ever-growing usage of the latest...
India’s Lessons for Creating a Digital Business
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As India rapidly moves into the digital era, leading Indian businesses are changing their business models to capture the...
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Smart Manufacturing
By Seeram Ramakrishna, Chen-Khong Tham and Teo Kie Leong
Manufacturing is vital to a country’s economic growth and ability to innovate. Manufacturing is changing from...
The Digital Revolution is an Evolution for the Outsourcing Industry
By Mike Salvino
Digital technology has transformed virtually every industry, affecting the way companies serve customers, manufacture products,
The EU Now Regulates Internet Services. But What Does that Mean, Exactly?
By Martin Schallbruch
Internet access has become crucial to the functioning of our most important systems. The Directive on security of network and information systems...
Five Styles of Business Analytics
By Mark Torr and Diane Hatcher
Whether you’re using one, two or all five business analytics approaches, the technologies are capable of much more than...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
This Too Shall Pass Change is Not Only Necessary, It’s Inevitable
By Christopher Surdak
If one word was used to describe the year we have just lived through my choice would be “change”. For most businesses,...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Enter the Age of Intelligent Business Operations
By John Bates
Is your firm stuck in the Customer Service Dark Ages? Or have you entered the Age of Customer Experience Management?...
Must-Have Technology Capabilities for Digital Transformation Mastering the Magnificent 15
By Stephen J. Andriole
Digital transformation is about efficiency and competitiveness. It requires a deep understanding of current and emerging business processes and models and...
Dubai: A City of Jerks
By Christopher Surdak
Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...
Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...
By Christopher Surdak
Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...
The Impact of Becoming Demand-Driven
By Karin Bursa
Becoming demand-driven enables companies to knock down organisational silos and create an integrated planning platform that ensures all teams involved are aligned...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
The Fairness Challenge of the Internet of Things
By Bang Ngyuen and David De Cremer
The Internet-of-Things essentially enables mass data collection and analysis, to the benefit not just of businesses, but individuals...
The Dawn of a New Era in Business Computing
By David Stokes
In 2013 it was estimated that 90% of all of the data in the world had been generated in the preceding two...
Hidden Needs Analysis: Creating Breakthrough Products
An Interview with Keith Goffin
The clear identification of customer needs is a fundamental part of successful innovation and most organizations aim to develop a...
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...
By Christopher Surdak
In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...
Can Digitisation Save the Planet?
It is a big, big question with millions of small positive answers Part 1 – digitisation & long-term economic success
By John Bates
In a post-crisis...
Digital Reality No.1: Customer Experience is Value
By Stijn Viaene
Customer-centric practices have been one of the key considerations in this age of digital transformation. In this article, Professor Stijn Viaene elaborates...
The Internet of Thingies
By Dr. John Bates
Dr. John Bates describes how the concept of The Internet of Things has come into being and how exactly technology has...
The Competitive Advantages of the Digital Economy Require a Digital Mentality
By Michael Gravier, Christopher Roethlein, and John Visich
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, supply chain leaders are being challenged by the profound effects of...
Are Digital Technologies the Planet’s Last Best Hope? (If bananas are anything to go...
By John Bates
Humanity’s destructive ecological footprint is only getting bigger and effective solutions are needed more than ever. Below Dr. John Bates explains...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
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The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Should We Give Connecting Ourselves to the Internet Pause for Thought?
By Jim Carlsson
With each device that is connected to the internet comes a new opportunity for cyber-criminals to exploit and new ways for hackers...
Overcoming Our Obsession With Technology While Getting The Best It Has To Offer
By Larry D. Rosen
We are all showing signs of obsession, accessing our smartphones all day (and all night) due to a need to reduce...
Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups
By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...
Insights into the Transformation of Business in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
The rapid and disruptive technological developments are leading us into a global all encompassing transformation....
Opening the Eyes of the Digitally Myopic!
By Eric Duffaut
There are none so blind as those who will not see. They’ll probably go bankrupt too. It has never been easier to...
The Case for 5G: Towards an Internet of Skills and a World of Synchronised...
By Maria Lema and Mischa Dohler
Mobile Systems have become commodity and this article thus examines the timely question of what 5G can deliver in...
Embedding Security in the Internet of Things
By Jim Carlsson
The Internet of Things will mean a better-connected world, with huge possibilities for positive change – and big opportunities for cyber-criminals. Jim...
How To Catch A Moving Target in the Digital World
By Stijn Viaene
In this article, Prof. Stijn Viaene continues to shed light on the realities that executives and business leaders must face in the...
How Will 5G Internet Change the World?
By Andrew Chakhoyan
When Estonia is contemplating a launch of its own digital currency (Estcoin), Deutsche Telekom is running pilots on a 5G connection,...
5G is Coming… But What is it?
By William Webb
The expectation around 5G surpasses all previous generations. We are told it will herald a digital utopia with services beyond our dreams...
Enhancing value through customer centric supply chain
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In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
The Reliance on Blockchain Technology Will Increase as Businesses Become Knowledgeable on How to...
Not every company will accept Bitcoin as a potential investment. However, businesses cannot deny the potential of the technology behind the cryptocurrency. Blockchain's tamperproof...
Mining Actionable Information with Smart Capture: INTERVIEW WITH ENNO LUECKEL, EPHESOFT
Companies collect tons of data nowadays, but most of them do not yet profit from that treasure. The situation can be compared to the...
The Internet of things: An Inside Perspective
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A data revolution is underway: the Internet of Things is giving a “voice” to billions, even trillions, of objects – connecting...
Digitisation for the Short, Medium and Long-Term for Better Customer Experiences
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Many companies today understand that the wave after wave of digital technology is a phenomenon they need to respond to as quickly...
Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity
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Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling
Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...
IT Leaders Must Collaborate to Thrive in the Face of Disruption
By Duncan Tait
With the advancements in technology reaching their peak, we can see how powerful such disruptions are in upending our lives and the...
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