Hopefully, by taking a closer look at this new frontier, we will get a better understanding of what it means for our professional and personal lives and how the metaverse will change our society. The Metaverse – What Does it Mean for…
When CEOs know the most important metrics to monitor, they can analyze the effectiveness of digital investments. In partnership with functional leaders, CEOs and their senior executives can adjust talent acquisition, resource allocation, and company culture so as to ensure…
In a crisis, businesses must quickly answer and address some critical questions. What’s selling? How do we best interact with customers? Where are the trouble spots in our supply chain? How do we support employees who are working from home?…
Three developments in the global environment are particularly significant in favoring ecosystem strategies: the fact that customers are increasingly demanding solutions and experiences rather than products, the rising knowledge content of many products and business activities, and new opportunities being…
Luxury brands spent decades turning design, aspiration, and high-quality goods into a $380 billion global behemoth. The coronavirus pandemic changed it all in a few short months. Sales have plummeted, leading to forecasts for a precipitous decline in 2020 revenue…
Average daily traffic to Walmart’s online grocery site reached 1.1 million between March 1 and March 20, according to SimilarWeb—a 55% increase on average daily visitor numbers during the previous two months. Read more in Zdnet Online grocery shopping numbers…
Some major hosting firms have adopted Let’s Encrypt as an effectively no-cost method of adding digital certificates for their users’ sites with almost no overhead. They can automate the process of requesting a certificate, receiving it, and installing it, a…
Although excitement about digital ecosystems is growing, executives still don’t fully understand what makes a particular digital ecosystem successful. We reveal five factors common to successful digital ecosystems. Read more in BCG What Does a Successful Digital Ecosystem Look Like?…
The five most valuable public companies in the US—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon—are all orchestrators of digital ecosystems. This is a strong contrast with ten years ago, when Microsoft was the only digital player alongside four physical giants (Exxon…
As tech winds its way deeper and deeper into our lives, deeper questions arise: How can you trust someone you’ll never see? How can you trust an algorithm that is making thousands of decisions a second of which you aren’t…
