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Read MoreInsights Spectre And Meltdown: The Canary In The Coal Mine For Digital Innovation? The discovery of Spectre and Meltdown may signal the beginning of a new era in tech design. -
Read MoreInsights Predictions On Cybersecurity, The Public Cloud, And Big Data Our predictions for what is next in Cybersecurity, Public Cloud, and Big Data. -
Read MoreInsights Predictions On Digital Regulation, Data Science, And Technology Predictions for tech and data regulation and business adoption of data science and technology. -
Read MoreInsights The Amazon-ing Of Healthcare Can – and will – the tech giant bring its efficiency and ease of use to a barely digitized industry? -
Read MoreInsights Building Technology: More Disruption Ahead Smart services and software will alter the competitive landscape. -
Read MoreInsights Global Tensions Amplify Tech Risks Weaponized AI, digital espionage, and other technologies pose new risks for global prosperity. -
Read MoreLeadership and Agility What The Military Can Teach Organizations About Agility Three practices for companies to borrow from military leadership. -
Read MoreInsights Bots For Business: Beyond The Shop Floor Bots can boost manufacturers’ performance, from the back office to the sales force. -
Read MoreInsights The Advance Of AI Is Uncertain. But That Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Prepare For It If AI makes the progress many are suggesting it will, the consequences for business are uncertain, but they are sure to be profound. -
Read MoreInsights Three Risk-Avoidance Strategies That Allow Aviation To Keep Pursuing New Technology When it comes to transportation, the word for this decade and the next is autonomous. But while we are likely to see autonomous cars in mass production by 2030 and almost certain to see self-driving trucks within five years, we will probably not see any autonomous passenger jets for one simple reason – passengers don’t trust them. -
Read MoreInsights How The Great Recession Changed Banking Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights Five Robotic Process Automation Risks To Avoid In MIT Sloan Management Review: Software robots can help automate tasks and decisions, but it pays to keep in mind some of the risks that come with the territory. -
Read MoreInsights As Airlines Aim For Autonomous Flight, Near-Term Revolution Will Be Going Single Pilot In Forbes: The next logical step in the road to total autonomy for commercial aviation is single-pilot operations. -
Read MoreInsights Managing Agility: Resolving The Tension Between Marketing And Technology 5 steps for achieving marketing and technology equilibrium. -
Read MoreInsights Workforce Management Advances Are Changing The Way Companies Manage Mobile Workers To optimize workforce, boost efficiency, and satisfy customers, companies must leverage the full potential of big data, machine-learning capabilities, and smart algorithms. -
Read MoreInsights The New, New Economy: Data and Experience Digital tech and connectedness are taking the economy by storm. -
Read MoreInsights Why Wall Street Is Moving To The Cloud In BRINK: Large financial institutions are starting to consider new ways that the public cloud can help them drive innovation and competitive advantage. -
Read MoreInsights Cyberattack: Not If, But When The question is no longer if a cyberattack will happen, but when. What’s your response plan? -
Read MoreInsights The Equifax Data Breach Does the Equifax data breach mean that existing processes for confirming the identity of customers no longer work? -
Read MoreInsights What’s The Best Way For A Board To Approach Digital Strategy? “Digital” is no longer a useful way to organize your thinking. The new "D" word to focus on is "Disruption". -
Read MoreInsights Public Cloud Vendor Lock-In As companies consider how to integrate the public cloud into their capabilities, many end up debating the same question: “Should we aim to be vendor agnostic?” -
Read MoreInsights How Start-Ups Are Digitalizing Logistics Agile start-ups are innovating across the value chain. -
Read MoreInsights How Amazon Is Assembling The Future Of Grocery The crucial ‘unlocks’ behind Amazon’s push into grocery -
Read MoreInsights Rogue Algorithms And How To Control Them What can the Volkswagen emission scandal and subprime mortgage crisis teach us about effective usage of analytics? -
Read MoreInsights Logistics Innovators Like Amazon Focus Future On New Computing Environment Called Meta-Platforms In Forbes: Delivery robots, drones, and the ability to customize your order and delivery in real-time are the future of logistics thanks to meta-platforms. -
Read MoreInsights New EU Data Law A Major Hurdle For Financial Firms In BRINK: It’s easy to see why financial services firms are scratching their heads on how to best comply with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), due to come into effect in the EU in May 2018. The building blocks are now available. -
Read MoreInsights Leading Digital Transformation Is Like Urban Planning Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights The Coming Consumer Data Wars In MIT Sloan Management Review: New European data protection regulations will change more than most companies expect. -
Read MoreInsights Flash-In-The-Pan Or Game Changer? How to spot business trends that will endure. -
Read MoreInsights The CIO Without A Data Center As IT applications float from the data center into the cloud, the CIO has to re-order priorities. -
Read MoreInsights Digital Risk Management For Insurers Digital innovation is changing the risk landscape, but it also presents opportunities for risk functions. -
Read MoreInsights GDPR For Retailers: A Feast And Famine Of Customer Data Technology, digital, and internet data privacy preferences of UK consumers and how retailers can best interact with them. -
Read MoreInsights InsurTech Caught On The Radar: Hype Or The Next Frontier? InsurTech is one of the hottest topics currently in the insurance industry -
Read MoreInsights Avoiding Process Fatigue Improving efficiency, productivity, and morale through process digitization. -
Read MoreInsights Construction Machines In The Digital Age Construction-equipment makers need to find their place in smart-building sites. -
Read MoreInsights Time For Transportation & Logistics To Up Its Cybersecurity As Hackers Put It On Target List Like with all forms of warfare, attackers will seek out the weakest link in any chain – the most vulnerable element – as a target. -
Read MoreInsights Reflections On Amazon And Whole Foods Commentary on Amazon's Potential Acquisition of Whole Foods. -
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Oliver Wyman Agility As A Strategy As a tactic, agility is an enabler. As a strategy, agility is a competitive advantage. -
Read MoreInsights Blockchain: The Backbone Of Digital Supply Chains Blockchain offers distinct advantages over today's conventional supply chain IT infrastructure and analytics capabilities. It is more than a pure electronic data interchange (EDI) - it is the backbone of digital supply chains. -
Read MoreInsights If Your Company Isn’t Good At Analytics, It’s Not Ready For AI Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights Smart Utilities Should Discover Smart Homes Digital disruptors have rewritten the rules for a broad swath of industries, from transportation to hospitality. -
Read MoreInsights Limit Cyberattacks With A System-Wide Safe Mode Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights RPA And Y2K A cautionary tale about writing bot software scripts. -
Read MoreInsights Transforming Into A Data-Driven Organization A six-point agenda for transformation into a data-driven organization. -
Read MoreInsights How Businesses Can ‘Crack The Code’ And Reach All Digital Users Not all digital customers are the same. New research unveils how a better understanding of “digital families” can help build and retain loyalty. -
Read MoreInsights Middle Managers In The Digital Age The speed of your customers’ changing expectations provides a burning platform at the core of your management model. -
Read MoreInsights Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights So You Want To Go Digital? How To Avoid The Next Legacy IT Platform Debacle Companies that go beyond technical solutions to address IT complexity will find themselves better positioned to compete in the digital age. -
Read MoreInsights Taking Rail Virtual Through Digital Industry Railroads have a long history as networked businesses; the fourth industrial revolution will extend those networks in ways that we are only beginning to comprehend. -
Read MoreInsights Buy vs. Build? The Buy vs. Build question in enterprise IT is once again in the spotlight. For many years, Buy has been on a winning streak, but consciously recognizing Build as part of your strategy will enable a culture and talent plan critical for success. -
Read MoreInsights Financial Institutions Reimagined The most innovative financial leaders recognize that it’s no longer about their institution having a digital strategy. It’s about having their business digitized. -
Read MoreInsights The Need For Speed How “second-derivative” strategic thinking can accelerate your company’s ability to respond to change. -
Read MoreInsights Will 3D Printing “Vaporize” the Supply Chain? The race to produce small-series parts on demand, on location, will shape the $400B market. -
Read MoreInsights Agility In The Cloud Cost savings and IT value are byproducts, but the most valuable benefits to cloud migration might be more impactful than you think. -
Read MoreInsights Are Manufacturing Facilities As Secure As Nuclear Power Plants? Unleashing intelligent, interconnected products—think autonomous vehicles—into an open environment increases attack vulnerabilities and severity. Are cyber security measures up to the task? -
Read MoreInsights Creating New Value In Section 3 of our State of the Financial Services Industry 2017 report, we discuss why we believe financial services incumbents must choose an archetype and how to move to the future. -
Read MoreInsights Machine Learning For Retail The next wave of promotions innovation will center around customization—offering personal promotions to specific customers for specific products at a specific time. -
Read MoreInsights Identifying New Sources Of Value In Section 2 of our State of the Financial Services Industry 2017 report, we examine how financial services incumbents can develop new sustainable competitive advantages within ecosystems that are being reshaped by digital forces. -
Read MoreInsights To Fight Disruption, Focus On Demand You don’t know the future, but acting along likely trajectories is better than watching from the sidelines. -
Read MoreInsights Digitize To Defend In Section 1 of our State of the Financial Services Industry 2017 report, we discuss how financial services incumbents can adopt a strategy of “deep digitization” in order to radically reduce costs and defend profits. -
Read MoreInsights Robotic Process Automation: Unlocking Benefits through Equilibrium The question is not whether to use robotic process automation – it’s how deeply and quickly to commit. -
Read MoreInsights Brave New World: Robots And Millennials How CEOs shape the workforce of tomorrow will dictate their success. -
Read MoreInsights Lead Through Listening The digital revolution, and more recently, the emergence of mobile technologies, have raised customer expectations and spawned new demands for constant connectivity, access, and convenience across interaction channels. -
Read MoreInsights Prepare Your Workforce For The Automation Age Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights Time to Rethink Digital Banking in Asia Lessons to date and strategies for Digital Banking 2.0. -
Read MoreInsights Art vs. Science, Man vs. Machine: Achieving the Best of Both Worlds How do you apply the right balance between the “art” of human judgment and the “science” of algorithms? -
Read MoreInsights The Future of Advice? Digital “robo advisors” offer the promise of democratizing advice with a low-cost solution for the affluent. -
Read MoreInsights Anxious Consumers Exposed Online are Willing to Undergo 'Digital Detox' "Digital DNA" survey shows consumer concerns about sharing information online, suggesting need for companies to prioritize cyber security and educate consumers. -
Read MoreInsights Machine Learning: Competitive Advantage and Strategic Imperative In a Zero-Sum-Game World, Better Predictive Algorithms Add Exponential Value. -
Read MoreInsights Reimagining Commodity Trading A new breed of commodity-trading titans and digital contenders is about to reorder the industry -
Read MoreInsights Innovation Is A Discipline To counteract digital disruption, act like an entrepreneur—move fast, with finite resources. -
Read MoreInsights No More “Apples, Bananas, and Screwdrivers” How can you navigate the mish-mash to implement a best-of-breed integrated analytics approach? -
Read MoreInsights The Bank of the Future How do you rise to the top of the pyramid when traditional distribution vanishes and data is open? -
Read MoreInsights Creating Tomorrow's Service Operations Your customers have learned to expect much more than you deliver. -
Read MoreInsights Can You Put a Dollar Amount on Your Company’s Cyber Risk? Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights The Next Frontier of Data Analytics Results from our Data Analytics Capabilities Study reveal a glimpse into the next wave of data analytics. -
Read MoreInsights Digital Twins: Identical, But Different Building virtual avatars to improve complex physical products; reducing development time by 25%, with cost savings up to 15%. -
Read MoreInsights The CIO’s New Job Description Embracing tectonic shifts to remain relevant in the new digital organization. -
Read MoreInsights The Agility Imperative: Scaling Beyond the Lab 2 pathways for scaling agility beyond the lab to an enterprise level. -
Read MoreInsights When To Disrupt Yourself? Managing investment and activity across the digital disruption lifecycle. -
Read MoreInsights Preparing for a Black Swan Cyberattack Featured In Harvard Business Review -
Read MoreInsights Reframing The Organization For A Digital Future Pt. 2 A CEO blueprint for transforming from a legacy into a digital organization. -
Read MoreInsights Reframing The Organization For A Digital Future Pt.1 It’s hard for incumbents to organize themselves to effectively build a digital future. -
Read MoreInsights Automated Decision Making When the process is working properly, the majority of basic decisions are automated, saving the valuable time of your best people for where it really matters. -
Read MoreInsights Three Keys to Remaining Competitive in the Data Analytics Arms Race There is now a clear imperative to keep up…in an environment where the stakes are higher and the competition smarter. -
Read MoreInsights Digital Equality Three Steps to Better Serve Low-Income Consumers Online -
Read MoreInsights The Bigger Digital Picture Six ways to use e-commerce to reinvent B2B sales relationships in distribution -
Read MoreInsights Mobilize Your Tweener Army New realities give rise to a hybrid professional—a “tweener”—who sits between the technical and business worlds. -
Read MoreInsights Machine Learning Want to save 75X on marketing dollars? Applying machine learning techniques to multiple levers in your business can very quickly result in exponential returns. -
Read MoreInsights Keeping It Simple in the Digital Age SIMPLE-COMPLEX-SIMPLE. Ask a simple question, apply complex analytics and algorithms, and translate results into a simple answer. Applying this “simplicity trinity” can create real competitive edge. -
Read MoreInsights Big data and the holy grail What to do about those reams of data you and the rest of the world are collecting? 3 key steps for transforming data into tangible business action. -
Read MoreInsights Freedom to Fail = Stepping Stone To Success Once you know that failure is cheap and fast, you are free to create, transform and leverage data for insights. -
Read MoreInsights Stay Ahead of Smarter Apps Smart-trucking apps are the latest example of how digital innovations first developed for consumers can be applied to business. -
Read MoreInsights Go to Cyber Extremes What to do when digitalization goes wrong? Planning for worst-case scenarios is no longer optional.
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