Tag: digital economy

June 6, 2016

The market for drone business services is worth more than $126 billion, according to a recent PwC report. Another report, which separates drones by type and use, predicts the market will reach $5.59 billion by 2020, a 32.22 percent increase […]

May 4, 2016

The lure of technology is its promise to make everything in our lives better. But for small and midsize businesses, digital adoption can be a double-edged sword. Customers expect ease and convenience, and employees wish they had the most useful […]

April 27, 2016

Digital technology has changed nearly everything we know about the world. Mobile devices have liberated us from our desks. Organizations, people, and devices are more intertwined. Infrastructure, software, and services are easier to deploy, scale, and host. And the shrinking […]

March 24, 2016

Rapid change is happening in the mining industry, as companies assess how to use new technology and embrace digital transformation.  Analytics programs capture and crunch data from many sources and build real-time dashboards. These tools allow decisions that had formerly taken weeks […]

December 3, 2015

Whenever a new technology is introduced, a new practice emerges, or research changes thought leadership, people often look at the information like it’s a blueprint. The veritable “Word of God.” The reality is that many emerging trends may not apply […]

November 17, 2015

Imagine you’re relaxing on a sunny beach when along comes an annoying buzz that rises above the sound of your radio. It could be a banner plane or a jet-ski — or it could be an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), […]

October 22, 2015

Today, the largest car rental and hospitality companies are Uber and Airbnb, respectively. What do they have in common? Let’s see — neither of them own physical possessions associated with their service, and both have turned a non-performing asset into […]

October 2, 2015

The September issue of Harvard Business Review features a cover story on design thinking’s coming of age. We have been applying design thinking within SAP for the past 10 years, and I’ve witnessed the growth of this human-centered approach to […]

September 28, 2015

One of the truly exciting things about viral digital phenomena is how rapidly they can take hold, outstripping the slow, methodical spread of innovations in the pre-digital era. I suspect we may be on the verge of that happening again, […]

September 23, 2015

Our world is turning into one gigantic interconnected web, thanks to the growing number of devices and physical objects linked to the Internet—and to each other—via wireless networks. That’s the basic idea behind a term that’s being tossed around a […]

September 10, 2015

The digital economy is steadily revolutionizing every aspect of our lives. We all sense it – how we live, play, and work will never be the same again. In the past, enterprise software used to be about making existing work […]

September 1, 2015

The pace of digital innovation and transformation is increasing. Entire markets, including transportation, logistics and e-commerce, are being disrupted and reinvented everywhere, and each new innovation multiplies the potential for more. Digital disruptors are not only changing targeted, they’re also […]

August 14, 2015

Humans are emotional creatures and they want experiences that engage them as humans. They’re not eyeballs, impressions, views, likes, shares, clickthroughs, or conversions. A few weeks ago, I visited New York on a beautiful summer day to participate in an […]