Strategy

Developing and deploying successful analytics technologies means recognizing that the human factor is paramount.

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.

Professor Marshall Van Alstyne on how platform strategy and IoT combine to produce value for all players in the ecosystem.

Many financial firms in South Africa are investing in analytics technologies and human capital to build capabilities that strengthen customer relationships and set the stage for long-term growth through data-driven services.

Companies can position themselves now to use messaging platforms and AI to fulfill customer needs.

For PepsiCo, entering the natural beverage market meant developing new risk management practices.

Recognizing interdependencies is key to creating resilient businesses.

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.

Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.

Instead of replacing human workers, software robots are an opportunity to augment their skills.

Companies entering global markets should identify an approach that best suits their business model.

The information economy is giving way to an economy focused on analytics-based data products.

Digital assistants are taking over repetitive tasks, leaving managers free to manage.

Digital transformation has been positive in many ways, but some long-term trends are troubling.

Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.

Companies that overlook their employees as sources of strategic insight may find themselves losing talent — and key ideas.

Our once-subservient machines are encroaching on tasks that have been firmly in the human domain.

While humans may be ahead of computers in the ability to create strategy today, we shouldn’t be complacent about our dominance.

A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.