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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #474Idea posted: December 2014
Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management
Since 2005, the business units of California-based health care company Allergan has used cloud computing for a wide range of functions, from field sales effectiveness and travel and expense processing…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #465Idea posted: October 2014
Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Entrepreneurs innovating in the technology space often lack the know-how or “specialized complementary assets” within their companies to successfully commercialize their innovations. Consequently, to date, the academic literature on this…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #448Idea posted: September 2014
Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management
Professionals in an organization — technical experts in a service organization, for example — will acquire best practices, solutions, resources, ideas and other knowledge as they develop responses to the…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #441Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: INSEAD University of British Columbia
New products and technologies often fail to depose inferior ‘incumbents’. (The classic example is the Dvorak keyboard, which, despite being more efficient, lost out to the original QWERTY model in…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #369Idea posted: April 2014
Institutions: IMD ESMT European School of Management and Technology
In many organizations, IT is managed via a Chief Information Officer (CIO), who is given a budget and mandate and simply left to ‘get on with it!’ This may be…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #359Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce International Monetary Fund Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law
Investment banking was once regulated mainly by ‘reputational incentives’: bankers were motivated to act in the client’s best interests by concern for the bank’s good name. It was a system…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #325Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #323Idea posted: January 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Crowdsourcing is an expression that describes the act of taking a task once performed by an internal employee or team, and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people…
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