article thumbnail

8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Businesses across the world have become an integral part of the networked economy. The best thing about it is that these are fully autonomous systems capable of self-managing risks entirely on their own. Interconnectedness and Collective Risk Management. Meanwhile, supply chains have become more complex.

article thumbnail

What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

And in addition to tangible assets, one has to think about investments in people, systems, brands, and intangibles. Are there really global network economies? While network economies generally are regarded as critical to winning with platforms, they, like economies of scale, often seem to be overestimated by executives.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Professors must think of themselves as experiential movie directors for a production of Global Business in the Networked Economy , orchestrating and coaching a multinational cast of actors through experiments – and stepping off of the stage for a broader purview.

article thumbnail

Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Every week a vendor introduces a new gadget, system, or service that promises to make us communicate and collaborate better, faster. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. Align knowledge management systems (or any system for that matter) with how people do work.

article thumbnail

The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

The company understands it as the fabric out of which value is created in the network economy. This is why it asks users to sign in to the system: doing so allows them to see the current state of the Seats2meet.com social network. Serendipity is fed by the constant exchange of social capital.