I recently contributed to a series of five bylines along with my colleagues examining the strategic implications of A.I. on the enterprise – from strategy, to leadership to the future of the workplace.
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Winning the Last-Mile in Fashion
The rising requirements of big-city Gen Z consumers will define where the future is headed. When it comes to big-city fashion shoppers, what really matters?
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“Sense and Pivot” Supply Chain @ MIT Media Lab
Demands on supply chains are ever increasing as companies vie to deliver more personalized products, with faster lead time, at a lower cost. Further, unexpected execution conditions continually disrupt operational performance.
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Eight Misconceptions of Going Digital
Digital transformation?? Oh, not again! Everything seems to be a digital transformation today and there’s nothing left under the sun that hasn’t been written about such disruptive change.
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Four Facts Every Exec Must Know About A.I.
While A.I. and machine learning has made rapid progress in consumer facing applications such as Amazon Alexa, playing Go, and making art, its deployment across the enterprise is still emerging and uneven.
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How to Avoid Overspending on AI
Artificial intelligence is the darling of the moment for the technology press and the corporate meme-stream. So much so, it’s forcing some CFOs into tough discussions with executive teams
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Will You Embrace A.I. Fast Enough?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast-moving technology with a long road ahead of it. For all its surrounding hype, AI is still in its infancy.
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A.I. Coming of Age
Artificial Intelligence progress has been uneven in the past 5 decades, with spurts of breakthrough followed by “winter-like” periods of stagnation. Barriers like technology cost, organization capability and ineffective policies held back AI from going mainstream. Yet, this trend shifted starting in 2005
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The Rise of Digital Supply Chain Platforms
Advances in digital technologies such as the Internet of Everything, Deep Learning, 3D Printing and Big Data are expected to disrupt business models and their respective supply chains As supply chains become more digital, they increasingly benefit from platforms
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Brand’s Becoming Omnichannel Retailers
The traditional value chain boundaries separating manufacturers and retailers are starting to blur under a digital, omnichannel setting. Manufacturers are increasingly playing an active role in the consumer Research – Shop – Buy cycle
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Capital and Wealth … Was Marx right?
The prolonged US recession and recent increase in income inequality has energized viewpoints challenging capitalism as a sustainable economic model.
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Spain’s Colonial Wealth – enterprise building lessons
During the 16th century, Spain transformed from a modest European kingdom to a global hegemony. Spain’s success was driven by monetizing innovations in trans-ocean navigation and firearms to appropriate vast quantities of minerals
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Strategic outsourcing is not an oxymoron
The term “strategic outsourcing” may sound like an oxymoron since the central dogma of outsourcing calls for companies to sequester strategic capabilities in-house and only source non-core activities from 3rd parties.
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CNN and the house of brands strategy …
Take a look at some of the key shows on CNN and one cannot but notice the network’s recent adoption of an explicit “House of Brands” strategy in an effort to better wage the battle for “viewer eyeballs”. The collage below shows some of CNN’s major shows and their distinct “brands” (e.g. AC360, Fareed Zakaria…
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Obama, Hillary and a case of Innovator’s Dilemma
Like so many favored incumbents, Hillary Clinton could not escape the Innovator’s Dilemma in a competitive bid for the market place (the democratic primary in this case) Coined by Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen,
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