The Need for Digital Know-How Starts at the Top
Your entire organization needs the right skills to make the most of the digital future and its emerging technologies — and that begins with your senior leaders.
s+b Blogs: Technology
How Companies Can Respond to Consumers’ Demands for Better Data Protection
New surveys reveal a lack of confidence in cybersecurity, and how companies can respond.
Why Bitcoin Is Becoming a Real Player
One of the largest commodity exchanges has started offering futures contracts on the cryptocurrency.
Best Practices Are Dead
Those who lead and advise companies on their digital transformation should rely more on imagination and less on experience.
Why Companies Need to Build a Skills Inventory
To have the right talent to thrive in the future, companies need to start categorizing and analyzing the skills present in their organization today.
Innovating the Mundane
Space tourism and self-driving cars are exciting to ponder, but what about just making our current systems work better?
What Happens When Machines Know More About People than People Do?
Artificial intelligence may learn to track predispositions and personality traits, turning our inner personalities into a detectible second skin.
How Amazon Fuels Deflation
While central banks puzzle about the lack of inflation, the e-commerce giant’s swift move to slash prices at Whole Foods shows how business is keeping prices down.
How to Make Innovation Strategy Work
Aligning technological investments with business goals and understanding how they affect real users helps ensure a greater return on investment.
What Billy Joel Can Teach Us About AI
It’s too simplistic to view advances in automation as inspiring either sadness or euphoria.
Happy 50th Birthday, ATM
Banking’s greatest technological innovation offers timeless lessons in improving customer experience.
Why the Construction Industry May Be Robot-Proof
There is something unique about building houses that inherently eschews efficiency and automation.
Cybersecurity after WannaCry: How to Resist Future Attacks
A few key habits and attributes can help protect companies from ransomware — now and going forward.
Why Robots Need Adult Supervision
Facebook is hiring legions of people to monitor content, proving once again that, at least in the near future, computers need a human touch.
Asking the Right Questions Can Frame a Successful Transformation
When plotting strategy, leaders should worry less about solutions and more about identifying the precise problem they are trying to solve.
Where Have All the Shop Clerks Gone?
Forget your worries about the factory floor. Machines are already decimating retail jobs.
Tech Is No Cure-All Where Emotions Run High
Autonomous buses seem like a natural solution to a school bus driver shortage, but parents would certainly disagree.
When Robots Miss the Minutiae
As tasks such as ad placement are becoming automated, it’s obvious that machines will need to make a huge leap to discern context.
Are Today’s CEOs Tomorrow’s Early Adopters?
Leaders of companies must make personal and financial commitments to trying new experiences.
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Some Emotional Intelligence
Robots are becoming chefs, and software is our new chauffeur, but their capacity for empathy leaves something to be desired.
Should Robots Pay Their Fair Share?
If machines and software are going to take over the jobs of humans, we may need them to fund our society.
How to Build a Connected Workforce
Technology can help, but the key is to focus on interdependence and a common language.
The End of Conventional Industry Sectors
Technology and the Internet of Things are eroding the boundaries that have long classified businesses. Here’s how to change your company’s approach.
Digital Transformations Start with Frontline Workers
To boost a hotel’s bottom line, ask the bellhop.
The Amazon Conundrum
The e-commerce pioneer is reengineering some operations to make them more appealing to employees while designing others that can operate without any human labor.
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