Competitive advantage through software: Contrasting Enterprises & Startups
By Grant Hull
I have an interesting vantage point whereby one portion of my professional life I work in the innovation scene with startups and entrepreneurs,...
Establishing a Foundation for Your Fledgling Ecommerce Company
It is one thing to have an idea of a niche you wish to service with an ecommerce company, but it is a whole...
Connected Cities: Driving Digital Transformation in Complex Ecosystems
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, and Lasse Bundgaard
Digital technologies are fuelling the evolution of connected cities of the future. Our research in Copenhagen with...
E-cars And The Necessity To Face Diversified Transportation Technologies
By Boris N. Liedtke
Customers craved for diversification, and the same is likely to hold true in the replacement of the combustion engine. Boris Liedtke...
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World
By Sandra Sieber and Javier Zamora
To be effective in the new world of digital transformation, any organisation needs to address cybersecurity as a continuous...
The Status of Digitalisation in Procurement and Supply Chain Management – Improvement and Disruption
By Thorsten Makowski, Heidi Gardner, and Hannes Beer
Digitalisation is changing procurement and supply chain management. It comes in three stages: cost reduction, value creation...
Enhancing Value Through Customer Centric Supply Chain
An exclusive interview with Allan Dow, President, Logility
In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
Digital Twins: How Big is the Opportunity for Industrial Organisations?
By Deborah Sherry
Looking at how advanced our world has become, a bridge to the virtual world is no longer an imagination as the concept...
What Governments Need to Understand About Ethical AI
By Josh Entsminger, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Terence Tse, and Danny Goh
The increasing application of artificial intelligence across the value chain reflects that such a technological development provides...
AI and Digital Resources in Fintech: Creating an Evolutionary Analytic Platform for “Risk” Estimation
By Stephan Kudyba
This article describes the potential for AI to augment risk estimation for both individual investors and financial market assets. AI processes vast...
Fintech: a Force for Disrupting and Democratising Financial Services
Fintech is like a snowball on a hill that is getting bigger and bigger and changing finance tremendously. London-based entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya is well...
Capturing Data – The Smart Way: Supervised Machine Learning
By Enno Lueckel
As AI has gained momentum, software providers have done a leap further to create a cutting edge tool for optimisation. A fine example...
Bridging Silos: Aligning Innovators with Strategic Leaders
By Dipika Mallya
While innovation is a strategic mandate for most organisations today, there is often a disconnect between teams tasked with innovation and other...
GDPR – Death Knell or a New Life for Customer Analytics?
By Amit Joshi
Even before the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the European Union’s 28 member states, European firms apparently had...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia
It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...
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...
Leading Effective Insights & Brand Strategy in a Digital World: The 4S Data Framework
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont
With the wave of increasing digital footprints in today’s technology-driven business landscape, more and more brands are stepping up...
Big Data: The Deciding Element in Mobile Advertising Efficacy
By Nidhi Prakash
In the age of analytics, how would advertisers take full advantage of the growing potential of big data? In this article, the...
Digital Transformation Doesn’t Start With Technology
By Jason Yeomans
Digital transformation is often misunderstood, overused or feared, but actually, it is a very suitable title to an easily understood topic. Its...
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...
Blockchain’s Potential Won’t Be Realised Until Many Years From Now
Blockchain research and development has been in full swing since Bitcoin became mainstream. Just last month, blockchain startup Kadena raised $12 million for its...
Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity
By Deborah Sherry
Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
Waking Up to Data Quality
By Tadhg Nagle, Thomas Redman and, David Sammon
Bad data impacts managers and their companies far more than most realise today and presents an enormous...
The Three Types of Big Data That Matter for CMOs
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont
Organisations today have massive amount of data at their disposal. However, not all C-level executives have clear typology of the...
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...
Fashion Brands and Social Media: Counterintuitive Evidence
By Matteo Altobelli
Marketing budget has been exponentially going digital. In this article, the author explores the social media platforms being used by 108 fashion...
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...
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....
The Challenge of Leading Digital Platforms in Responsible Ways
By David De Cremer, Jess Zhang, and Leander De Schutter
Digital platform businesses are increasingly being confronted with a host of unethical consequences due to a lack of...
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...
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....
Digitisation for the Short, Medium and Long-Term for Better Customer Experiences
By Joerg Niessing
Many companies today understand that the wave after wave of digital technology is a phenomenon they need to respond to as quickly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Overcoming the Illusion of Email Overwhelm
By Joe Beccalori
One of the most dreaded activities that executives have got to face is treading through an overwhelming amount of electronic messages. In...
When it Comes to Cyber Security, A Step Ahead is a Step Out of...
By Laurence Minsky, Ben DiSanti, & Joseph Carson
Marketing in the digital arena is one great balancing act. On one hand is the need for...
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...
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito
Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....
5 Smart Ways to Increase Europe’s “AIQ”
By Francis Hintermann, Madhu Vazirani, and Carsten Lexa
At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment
By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?
By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...

















































