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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...

Although the ability to manage torrents of data has become crucial to companies' success, most organizations remain badly behind the curve. More than...

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 […]

Information technology is more than just computers. It must be conceived of broadly to encompass information as well as a spectrum of technologies that...

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 […]

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.

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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 […]

It was while my father was very sick last year that I learned something important about telling painful truths. Toward the end of his life, he was taken...

Lessons from the Sanford Data Collaborative.

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 […]

The typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today, and no more than a third the managers. In its structure, and in its management problems and concerns, it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950, which our textbooks still consider […]

You can’t protect your company if your employees don’t even know they’re engaging in risky behavior that could cause a major security breach.