Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
Internationalisation in Online Retailing
By Moritz Hahn and Niccolò Pisani
Online retailing is clearly on the rise. In this article the authors offer a snapshot of the current status...
Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities
By S. C. Mukhopadhyay and N. K. Suryadevara
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is used to describe embedded devices (things) with Internet connectivity, allowing...
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...
BoardVantage: Success Beyond the Boardroom
Used by over half the Fortune 100 companies, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.
The expansion of its internal functionality to different digital...
How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
‘Big Data’ vs. Quality Information: The Peculiarities of Information Markets
By Miklos Sarvary
Big data versus quality information
‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...
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...
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
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...
Measuring the Relative Weights of E-Marketing Tools for Online Businesses
By Kin Meng Sam & Chris Chatwin
E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place), which forms...
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...
A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully
By Dr. Richard Stallman
If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not...
Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...
Mobile Technology Meets Social Innovation: Reflections on progress and challenges
By Ken Banks
Talk is good, or so they say. But too much talk and not enough action isn’t. After working for the past twelve...
Impact of Digital on How We Implement Change
By Audra Proctor
No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...
Growth Through Innovation: Innovation Principles for the Technology-Driven Enterprise
By R. Boutellier and M. Heinzen
Technology is the key to our growth, but with it comes many risks. Below, Roman Boutellier and Mareike Heinzen...
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,...
Disruptive Technology in Behavioural Health: Ethical and Risk-Management Challenges
By Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D
Digital technology has transformed the delivery of mental health services worldwide. Behavioural health professionals now have the option to provide...
Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
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 Real Industry 4.0 Challenge
By Richard Markoff and Ralf Seifert
As the manufacturing industry enters into the fourth industrial revolution or the Industry 4.0, supply chain leaders are challenged...
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...
Where do you Begin with your (Big) Data Initiative?
By Joe Peppard
While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...
How Enterprises Exploit Five Digital Capabilities to Globalise
By Siew Kien Sia, Peter Weill & Christina Soh
Some of the most successful enterprises have embraced global diversity and operate nimbly in multiple countries...
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...
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Digitalisation: The Pharmakon of Open Organisations
By Albert Meige
The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise – the same entity we are familiar with today.1...
The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani
To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
Agility and Cloud Computing
By Michael Hugos
Success will go to those companies that combine business agility and cloud computing to continuously explore new opportunities. Attempts to pick winning...
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...
The Future of Virtual Reality Applications in K-12 and Higher Education
By Ben Fineman
Virtual and augmented reality technologies are promising to revolutionise the way we present and experience information, which will have profound implications for...
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...
Alphabet International: How today’s companies can achieve sustainable Business Mobility
Sustainability is the modern day buzzword. Sounds great in theory, but what about the practice? Sustainability relating to fleet management goes beyond merely decreasing...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs. Cloud-based Hosting Options
By Byung Chul Tak, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam
Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated into the cloud?...
FED Up With Big Data Hype? How Central Banks Struggle with Digital Disruption
By Christopher Surdak
Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...
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...
Mobile Payments
By Christopher Coonen, EVP Global Solutions, Sales Marketing Strategy at Ingenico
Market Trends
The mobile technology market all over the world is booming, with consumer...
Will The Robots Save Company Culture?
By Simone Sneed-McGurl
Over the past 25 years we have seen a rapid proliferation of workplace technology, automation and artificial intelligence. The evolution of the...
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
By Christopher Surdak
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...
