Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management   

With the dominant, almost overwhelming impact that social media has on just about any function of a business, it’s easy to forget that social media is barely a decade old.…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School   

The amount of data we generate today boggles the mind. As much as 90% of all data in the world today was created in the past 2 years, writes Keith…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: HEC Paris    McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management    University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business   

Online communities can be the source of staggering feats of pooled knowledge creation, with volunteers from around the world combining their expertise. Think of Wikipedia, or of Linux, or even…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

Internet-based sales have been growing steadily — companies report a 25% increase in the past year alone, according to a survey of 351 marketing executives. Not surprisingly, investment in digital…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Crowdsourcing and social media channels have largely replaced the private channels between a lone individual and an organization with a public debate in which external contributors not only submit suggestions…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: University of Southern Denmark    University of St. Gallen    Bielefeld University   

Online consumers have come to expect to be able to read customer ratings and reviews as they consider which product or service to buy. On websites such as IMDB, Amazon…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: NUS Business School    Singapore Management University    Virginia Tech University    Pennsylvania State University   

Cyberloafing is a term used to describe behaviour in which employees spend work hours and company internet access to check personal e-mails or visit websites not related to their work.…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Northwestern University    University of Texas, Austin    Stanford University   

The ‘lure of the virtual’ has led many organizations to believe that one day not too far away, we will be able to accomplish with computers what has historically only…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Though formal hierarchies continue to be an integral part of organizational structures, in recent years individuals have been required to look beyond these towards the informal and invisible structures supporting…