Business Models
The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.
Volume 58, Issue #1
Fall 2016 Issue
In our debut of Frontiers, we asked 15 leading lights from academia and industry to answer this question: “Within the next five years, how will technology change the practice of management in a way we have not yet witnessed?”
Automation
A New Approach to Automating Services
Instead of replacing human workers, software robots are an opportunity to augment their skills.
Business Models
Harnessing the Best of Globalization
Companies entering global markets should identify an approach that best suits their business model.
Leading Change
Creating Management Processes Built for Change
Your business may have processes that work now. Does it have agile processes to help it change?
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Designing and Developing Analytics-Based Data Products
The information economy is giving way to an economy focused on analytics-based data products.
Management’s Digital Future Has Arrived
The ongoing digital revolution has created a new set of questions about technology and management.
Collaboration
A New Era of Corporate Conversation
Communication has changed thanks to social media — with long-term impacts on how companies work.
Collaboration
Executive Assistants for Everyone
Digital assistants are taking over repetitive tasks, leaving managers free to manage.
AI & Machine Learning
Predicting a Future Where the Future Is Routinely Predicted
AI’s value for managers lies in its ability to predict equipment failures and assess human emotions.
Automation
Why Digital Transformation Needs a Heart
Digital transformation has been positive in many ways, but some long-term trends are troubling.
Innovation Strategy
Unleashing Creativity With Digital Technology
Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.
Collaboration
The Three New Skills Managers Need
As technology evolves, managers and organizations will need new skill sets.
AI & Machine Learning
Digital Today, Cognitive Tomorrow
Digital transformation is just a step in the journey toward a cognitive technology revolution.
Developing Strategy
When Strategy Walks Out the Door
Companies that overlook their employees as sources of strategic insight may find themselves losing talent — and key ideas.
AI & Machine Learning
Rise of the Strategy Machines
While humans may be ahead of computers in the ability to create strategy today, we shouldn’t be complacent about our dominance.
Executing Strategy
How to Manage Alliances Strategically
A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.
Collaboration
The 2016 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s winning article is “Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help,” by Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, and Dirk Stempfhuber.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Tackling the World’s Challenges With Technology
The power and responsibility of companies to help build a thriving, resilient world has never been greater.
Leadership Skills
Rethinking the Manager’s Role
No, software will not render managers obsolete, but you will need to be more skilled than ever before.
Executing Strategy
Leading in an Unpredictable World
Accenture’s chief executive on the challenges of leading in a world that’s almost impossible to predict.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethics and the Algorithm
Behind every piece of code that drives our decisions is a human making human judgments about what matters and what does not.
Leadership Skills
Is Your Company Ready to Operate as a Market?
Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.
AI & Machine Learning
Using Artificial Intelligence to Set Information Free
We are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in how organizations collect, analyze, and act on knowledge.
AI & Machine Learning
Managing the Bots That Are Managing the Business
Algorithms are fundamentally redefining the roles of worker and manager.