As companies continue to work on their digital transformation initiatives and to make steady progress, itu2019s vitally important to re-visit goals and objectives along the way.
The integration of drones into the supply chain is upon the enterprise.
The most productive ideation workshops, and those with the best customer experience, are those that have a unique DNA comprised of strategy, people, process, technology and which have been refined and optimized over years of experience.
Digital transformation insights from Microsoft's worldwide lead for retail strategy examining the strategies of their Walmart partnership.
Artificial intelligence-enabled strategic themes and scenarios will be hallmarks of leading education practices.
It's important to be aware of the following warning signs u2013 and to have a strategy to counter u2013 if you want your company to be a world-class innovator.
A discussion with Barry Padgett, President, SAP Ariba.
Considering the impact of the artificial intelligence (AI) on your industry's business models, processes, products and services.
Different approaches that can help to further advance the way ideas are sourced, shared, scoped and shepherded through the innovation process, so that public sector organizations can improve the yield of ideas moving through their pipelines.
Great ideation software should be almost u201cinvisibleu201d when in use so the focus becomes almost exclusively on the ideas and their merits.
With so much focus on specific trends and technologies in the world of digital transformation, itu2019s often valuable to step back and make sure you can see the forest for the trees.
Every day of every year, people of all backgrounds get into danger in the water. Here's how the Royal National Lifeboat Institution employs u201cdigitalu201d to support a very important and highly-specific mission u2013 that of saving lives at s....
Platform business models are a very different animal from traditional IT projects, they often involve the entire company and require multiple business units to come together and stay in close alignment.
What started as a role close to that of the CMO has now evolved into something far-more expansive u2013 reaching into corporate strategy, innovation, technology and operations. More than ever, visionary CIOs are in an excellent position to pick up th....
Weu2019re at the beginning of another u201cKodak momentu201d as the world shifts more and more towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. As the world transforms, the lessons from the California gold rush may help you put your best foot (or shovel) forwar....
While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success u2013 investment, leadership, culture, change management, governance u2013 digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire an....
While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success (e.g. investment, leadership, culture, change management and governance), digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire and....
There's a lot of attention paid to how to design and implement corporate innovation programs, but not how to effectively operate these programs and capabilities in a sustainable way.
Many innovation leaders need to carefully navigate the waters between too much resistance to innovation from corporate antibodies and, conversely, too much enthusiasm for innovation from those wishing to put on theater.
Itu2019s time to think about how we can reduce our environmental u201cexhaustu201d through new digitally-sustainable business models and processes.
The banking industry as well as the high-tech industry is continuing to experiment with the art of the possible, particularly around the digital-physical blur of payments and redesigned business processes. After more than 65 years of traditional cred....
While discrete technology trends often get all the attention in New Year's lists, this coming year will be highlighted by organizations taking a more holistic focus on digital transformation with an increasing number of "world-firsts" ....
Platform business models can be a powerful ecosystem for value exchange and innovation. Here is a primer on the definition and benefits of platform business models and some go-forward strategy recommendations for executives and managers.
Today, the market for innovation management software is highly fragmented and centered on the idea-management portion of the innovation life cycle. Here are five areas where today's software needs to evolve over the next few years to best suppor....
Professor Sanjay Sarma is best known for his ground-breaking work with Kevin Ashton and David Brock in co-founding the MIT Auto-ID Center. It was during this period back in 1999 that the term u201cInternet of Thingsu201d was coined and u201cthingsu20....
When deluged with so much information, and stark differences in opinion, itu2019s worth looking at the facts and formulating a go-forward approach which is appropriate for blockchainu2019s relative maturity in the market and your organizations appeti....
Just as there's a dominant technology platform for digital business, comprised of a set of foundational emerging and disruptive technologies, there's also a dominant new business model emerging in the form of digital business ecosystems.
If you're managing any aspect of innovation for your organization, particularly innovation workshops or other initiatives in support of targeted ideation, here are some steps to ensure your activities pass -- and even exceed -- the litmus test i....
More than just the IoT and big data/fast data/data analytics, the real potential of the Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0 will be realized by the holistic combination of a key set of technology enablers to deliver u201cdynamic, real-time optimized....
Here's a list of nine key questions to ask of your next digital business initiative -- not just on the vision, value proposition and differentiation of the product or service itself, but on your entire business model and how you intend to go to ....
In 2016, as the race to digital transformation progresses, weu2019ll start to see the leaders separate themselves from the rest of the pack by setting a firm pace thatu2019s fueled by five essential ingredients.
With all the interest in digital transformation in the business world, what can the world of Formula One, where results are measured in thousandths of a second, teach us about emerging technologies and how to manage, combine and optimize them to deli....
Every three to five years the map of the world in terms of innovation is redrawn as organizations change strategic direction, bring in new leaders and/or respond to market threats and opportunities. Here are five critical pillars of innovation manage....
How should an organization think beyond the strategy and get to transformative execution and outcomes for digital business? Here are six steps for digital transformation that you can take to progress from innovative strategy development, to an archit....
Exactly why is digital business so disruptive to traditional business models and traditional notions of industry competition? A useful way to analyze the situation is by looking at Porter's model of the five forces of industry competition and ex....
When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines are encroaching upon human work activities and taking an ever larger percentage of this work away for good, Fortunately, this doesnu2019t take into account the re....
When it comes to IoT security, itu2019s the Wild West out there. One of the main problems is that security is often an afterthought, bolted onto solutions after the fact, once issues arise. Here are some steps to help you do things better.
Many organizations are harming their customeru2019s digital experience u2013 and in some cases their safety u2013 on a regular basis, as evidenced by the recent issues around limited access to personal data and the ability to digitally sabotage conne....
Corporate innovation programs need to be living, breathing, socially connected entities. They need to constantly adapt to their environment, evolve as the target business outcomes of innovation evolve, follow natural rhythms in terms of event-based a....
When it comes to your personal information, which industries do you trust most, or least, with your data? How do some of the recent, highly publicized breaches affect your opinion in terms of which industries are most vulnerable, and how does this co....
Appleu2019s recent announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference of giving shoppers even more ways to pay via its Apple Pay service is an interesting example of a set of eight classic (digital) business strategy moves the company has executed o....
From being a former disruption to enterprise IT, SMAC technologies are now becoming the essential building blocks of a new platform for digital business initiatives.
The business strategies and options regarding how and where to play in the future value chain are the same strategic decisions that organizations have needed to make for decades. Whatu2019s new and different is the magnitude of potential business dis....
By implementing a multi-modal ideation approach, with both event-based and ongoing ideation vehicles, your organization will be well-poised to maximize the innovation potential across your diverse ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers and part....
Mastery of digital services is going to become a key competency for organizations to grow their business and build sustainable competitive advantage in the years ahead. Itu2019s no longer sufficient to have an innovative set of products or services, ....
In one form or another, most organizations have had a corporate innovation program for many years now. Todayu2019s innovation objectives, however, are all gravitating towards digital transformation. So how should an existing corporate innovation prog....
While shortcuts are often the goal in re-thinking and re-designing business processes to create process efficiencies, cost savings, and an innovative and highly convenient new digital customer experience, every business model and process innovation m....
Hybrid IT is perhaps the mirror image of digital business. As digital business continues its march towards digitizing physical business models, processes, products and services, then hybrid IT responds by providing a palette of technology options for....
Many of new SMAC-enabled digital business models have the intrinsic potential to be more transformative than they would at first appear to CEOs as they re-think and re-design their traditional, existing business models and processes in the context o....
So many of our everyday consumer business processes -- finance, healthcare, etc. -- are now online. Theyu2019ve become de-facto mission critical computing processes. We need them constantly accessible, available and secure.
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