Coaching Tip

APRIL 6, 2012

The network economy is going to be mainstream. As a leader, you must engage your Gen Y Digital Cowboys to expand your network of contacts to both retain and expand your company. With the Internet, more information becomes available to these employees much faster.

Globalization 106

Globalization Network Economy Open-book Innovation 106

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

Businesses across the world have become an integral part of the networked economy. The climate change, cyberattacks, and the global pandemic are just a couple of them. People in the risk management industry will have to identify these emerging and evolving risk types and integrate them into the existing risk models.

Risk Management 115

Risk Management Analysis Management Market Risk 115

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Rather than rehashing these points, I want to take a broader perspective and use the Uber-Didi deal to reflect more broadly on platform companies and globalization. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Classrooms are becoming a mesh of virtual and real, inspiring more collaboration, and expanding across hundreds of cultures as campuses globalize. Employers expect us to train our leaders to create value on this new frontier, as they should. However, our current business model is ill-prepared for these trends.

Network Economy 9

Network Economy Education Agility Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. As a case in point, I just found out the precise location of a package in transit from China to France, all while on a train going through the forest.

Technology 8

Technology Knowledge Management CIO System 8

LDRLB

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Handy was mostly correct in his predictions, but even he probably did not foresee the explosion and extent of the technology and networks that would make this possible. Some organizations (including one of the ones I studied) are merging their communications departments into their HR department.

Advertising 133

Advertising Human Resources Network Economy Incentives 133