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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. They are transforming each and every business model. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

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It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. years in 2013 from 60.3 According to recent research , it appears not. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. Internal diversity. Experts from outside industries.