It management

What the technology can do today—and what’s next

Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street "quant" were the hot occupations in business. Today data scientists are the hires firms are competing...

The key is to balance offense and defense.

One of the most promising applications of emerging blockchain technology is supply chain management. Blockchain--the digital record-keeping system developed...

For all the dollars spent by American companies on R&D, there often remains a persistent and troubling gap between the inherent value of the technology they develop and their ability to put it to work effectively. At a time of fierce global competition, the distance between technical promise and genuine achievement is a matter of […]

The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. Most general managers know that the revolution is under way, and few dispute its importance. As more and more of their time and […]

With the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and...

A survey of 600 directors suggests that growing awareness of cyber risk isn’t enough to drive better preparedness.

Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven't kept up with the world's digital transformation....

A framework to ensure your digital investments are driven by strategic objectives.

Howard Rubin is CEO of Rubin Systems. John Sviokla is vice chairman of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants. By Howard Rubin and John Sviokla When we learned to drive many years ago, back in the age of rear wheel drive, we were both taught to “turn into the skid” because our natural instincts to turn […]

Tech projects should focus less on technology and more on information.

Brands are not just names slapped on products by the marketing department; they embody the value those products have for your customers. That may be more true for high-tech products than it is for soap.

Consensus is often the enemy of innovation.

During his nearly 14 years at the helm of networking giant Cisco Systems, Chambers has developed an uncanny ability to sense market trends long before...

Digital transformation has become a necessity-and it's separating the organizational haves from the have-nots.

Over the last decade a new technology has begun to take hold in American business, one so new that its significance is still difficult to evaluate. While many aspects of this technology are uncertain, it seems clear that it will move into the managerial scene rapidly, with definite and far-reaching impact on managerial organization. In […]

Of late, offshoring and outsourcing have become political hot buttons--they have been conflated to mean that high-paying, white-collar jobs have been...

Most executives think they’re security conscious—they change their passwords and shred important documents and so forth. But what rarely crosses their minds, says espionage expert H. Keith Melton, is that cloak-and-dagger types really are after their valuables. Just because you’re not paranoid, he observes, doesn’t mean they’re not following you. Melton, the author of Ultimate […]

Five things leaders can do today to fix it.