Construction in the cloud: An interview with Thomas Wolf, CEO of RIB Software

As construction moves into the cloud, here’s what industry leaders must do to lay the groundwork for change.
Construction in the cloud: An interview with Thomas Wolf, CEO of RIB Software

Going digital to advance infrastructure delivery: The open information project

Owners and contractors can share “integrated project delivery” benefits on any project—including digital work flows and increased visibility—through a connected data environment.
Going digital to advance infrastructure delivery: The open information project

Fostering a Team-Oriented Culture at John Hancock

Collaboration Speeds Up at General Electric

The Keys to Successful Digital Experimentation

How Social Media Influences Communication on College Campuses

Hawaii’s quest to become a low-carbon leader

A decade ago, the state decided to make its energy system cleaner and greener. How is it doing?
Hawaii’s quest to become a low-carbon leader

How Cisco Encourages Innovation and Digitization

Shift From Corporate Training to Continuous Learning

Experimenting With Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Work Groups Encourage Productivity and Continuous Learning

Make the Move to Distributed Leadership

Let Talent Drive Digital Maturity

Transforming from a bank to a tech company by becoming digital to the core

Understanding what it takes to act like a tech company requires a few key breakthroughs, as this interview with the CIO for DBS Bank highlights.
Transforming from a bank to a tech company by becoming digital to the core

Technical Leadership in an Evolving Health Care Climate

Designing Organizations Around Technology

How People Analytics Improves Employee Performance

Digital-experience design for the field workforce

By focusing on valuable and meaningful workforce experiences, utilities can move from incremental improvements to transformative ones.
Digital-experience design for the field workforce

Digging deep for organizational innovation

Organizational simplicity. Clear accountabilities. Nimble planning processes. All characterize a scrappy oil and gas company you may not have heard of. Learn more from its CEO.
Digging deep for organizational innovation

The real-world potential and limitations of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has the potential to create trillions of dollars of value across the economy—if business leaders work to understand what AI can and cannot do.
The real-world potential and limitations of artificial intelligence

How Digital Leaders Inspire Engagement

Converting Email From Drain to Gain

The Right Way to Market to Millennials

Build a reinvestment machine with zero-based budgeting

When zero-based budgeting makes investing as rigorous as saving, the result is a reinvestment machine that supports growth year after year.
Build a reinvestment machine with zero-based budgeting

Can IT Be Too in Sync With Business Strategy?

Taking the measure of innovation

Don’t overlook the insight that two simple metrics can yield about the effectiveness of your R&D spending.
Taking the measure of innovation

How advanced analytics can benefit infrastructure capital planning

Asset owners are lagging behind other industries in data analytics. Now’s the time to get going.
How advanced analytics can benefit infrastructure capital planning

A board interview guide for prospective CEOs

Working through these questions as they prepare to take the top job can help executives clarify their thinking.
A board interview guide for prospective CEOs

Advice for transitioning into the chief-executive role

While every transition is unique, here are some pointers for executives moving into the top job.
Advice for transitioning into the chief-executive role

The role of education in AI (and vice versa)

Princeton’s head of computer science, Jennifer Rexford, explains how artificial intelligence is set to change not only what teachers teach but how they teach.
The role of education in AI (and vice versa)

Starting the analytics journey: Where you can find sales growth right now

By getting five basic elements right, sales teams can drive new revenue while building analytics muscles for the future.
Starting the analytics journey: Where you can find sales growth right now

AI is open for business: An interview with PayPal COO Bill Ready

Cloud platforms have begun democratizing artificial intelligence, ushering in a new wave of AI innovation.
AI is open for business: An interview with PayPal COO Bill Ready

Understanding the customer experience with government

Government agencies that are unclear on what matters most to their customers risk wasting time and resources on the things that don’t. Finding out is the first step.
Understanding the customer experience with government

FRTB reloaded: The need for a fundamental revamp of trading-risk infrastructure

Investing in infrastructure isn’t glamorous. But a thoughtful rebuild will pay dividends for years to come.
FRTB reloaded: The need for a fundamental revamp of trading-risk infrastructure

Society 3.0: Using technology to improve public goods

Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao discusses why technology should not merely increase productivity but also benefit society at large.
Society 3.0: Using technology to improve public goods

Visualizing the uses and potential impact of AI and other analytics

This interactive data visualization shows the potential value created by artificial intelligence and other analytics techniques for 19 industries and nine business functions.
Visualizing the uses and potential impact of AI and other analytics

How are traditional asset managers looking at private markets?

With traditional and alternative asset management converging, an era of “coopetition” may be ahead.
How are traditional asset managers looking at private markets?

Eight shifts that will take your strategy into high gear

Developing a great strategy starts with changing the dynamics in your strategy room. Here’s how.
Eight shifts that will take your strategy into high gear

Defining True Sustainability

The evolving role of medical affairs in Asia−Pacific: Three imperatives for pharmacos

Medical affairs is poised for a broader, more strategic role. However, leaders will need to ramp up new types of capabilities and talent to achieve this ambition.
The evolving role of medical affairs in Asia−Pacific: Three imperatives for pharmacos

Basel III: The final regulatory standard

Basel III’s finalized regulatory standards will have less impact than was first assumed, but banks still need a holistic approach to capital management.
Basel III: The final regulatory standard

Fueling utility innovation through analytics

Utilities around the world are making big investments in advanced analytics. Getting the full value, however, requires rethinking their strategy, culture, and organization.
Fueling utility innovation through analytics

How Organizations Will Produce in an Autonomous Future

Notes from the AI frontier: Applications and value of deep learning

An analysis of more than 400 use cases across 19 industries and nine business functions highlights the broad use and significant economic potential of advanced AI techniques.
Notes from the AI frontier: Applications and value of deep learning

Is globalization in retreat? Three global CEOs share their insights

Faced with a backlash against globalization, executives share how they are responding to the new dynamics of international trade to maintain competitiveness.
Is globalization in retreat? Three global CEOs share their insights

Five Fifty: The lifecycle of a CEO

A CEO’s job starts out tough—and then gets tougher. Here’s advice for the early, middle, and late stages of a CEO’s tenure.
Five Fifty: The lifecycle of a CEO

The Quest to Create Utterly Normal Virtual Reality Experiences

Reaching Asia’s digital banking customers

Asia’s banking customers are migrating to digital channels in force. The challenge for the region’s banks is to deliver superior digital experiences before competitors do.
Reaching Asia’s digital banking customers

Health system financing: Tips for emerging markets

Many countries with emerging economies are considering health system financing transformation. Five no-regrets tips can help them build a strong foundation for their future health system.
Health system financing: Tips for emerging markets

Six digital growth strategies for banks

Banks that know where to look can find new sources of untapped value.
Six digital growth strategies for banks

The journey to an agile organization at Zalando

Europe’s largest online fashion retailer embraced purpose, autonomy, and mastery to build agility, explains VP Engineering Eric Bowman.
The journey to an agile organization at Zalando

Cloud adoption to accelerate IT modernization

The cloud is a means, not an end. Success in modernizing IT through the cloud is driven by a complete standardization and automation strategy.
Cloud adoption to accelerate IT modernization

Implement First, Ask Questions Later (or Not at All)

Navigating the new realities of global trade

The long-term future of global trade will be reshaped by technological shifts and changes in international trade policy.
Navigating the new realities of global trade

Linking talent to value

Getting the best people into the most important roles does not happen by chance; it requires a disciplined look at where the organization really creates value and how top talent contributes.
Linking talent to value

A framework for fostering effective energy transitions

The new Energy Transition Index looks at 114 countries’ energy systems’ performance and transition readiness.
A framework for fostering effective energy transitions

Telematics: Poised for strong global growth

An expanding array of telematics devices and services, combined with focused government mandates, will help the technology break into the mainstream.
Telematics: Poised for strong global growth

Graphene: The next S-curve for semiconductors?

Slowing productivity improvements and rising costs for silicon have business leaders evaluating other materials.
Graphene: The next S-curve for semiconductors?

What’s next for Japan’s pharma market

The president of Merck in Japan discusses how healthcare players in the country can capitalize on early detection rates and use collaboration to drive innovation.
What’s next for Japan’s pharma market

Corporate ‘Purpose’ Is No Substitute for Good Governance

What beauty players can teach the consumer sector about digital disruption

As many consumer businesses struggle to deal with the pace of change, the beauty sector shows the way.
What beauty players can teach the consumer sector about digital disruption

Five Fifty: Success with a capital Zzzz

If sleep is essential to effective leadership, why do so many executives fail to sleep enough?
Five Fifty: Success with a capital Zzzz

The Need for ‘Techno-Supporting Skeptics’

Disruption in European consumer finance: Lessons from Sweden

Strong earnings in European consumer finance have drawn the attention of attackers, including large retailers and fintechs. To maintain their position, banks must focus on the customer and transform their operating models.
Disruption in European consumer finance: Lessons from Sweden

How industrial companies can respond to disruptive forces

A survey of 300-plus executives from the automotive, aerospace, and diversified-industrial sectors generated insights that can help traditional players reckon with change.
How industrial companies can respond to disruptive forces

Transforming a 150-year-old government agency: A CEO story

HM Land Registry’s Graham Farrant describes leading the cultural and operational transformation of an organization of 5,200 people.
Transforming a 150-year-old government agency: A CEO story

Dry powder in private equity

Is dry powder anything to worry about, and is it a useful metric for the industry? Two McKinsey experts weigh in.
Dry powder in private equity

The Impossibility of Focusing on Two Things at Once

How to mess up your agile transformation in seven easy (mis)steps

The journey to become agile is challenging. But your organization can avoid some common pitfalls that we have seen companies encounter, including failing to create buy-in around an aspiration and forgetting to put culture first.
How to mess up your agile transformation in seven easy (mis)steps

The Time for Retraining Is Now

The fairness factor in performance management

Many systems are under stress because employees harbor doubts that the core elements are equitable. A few practical steps can change that.
The fairness factor in performance management

How do emerging technologies affect the creative economy?

Research suggests some ways artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain are reshaping creative work.
How do emerging technologies affect the creative economy?

Digital Is About Speed — But It Takes a Long Time

Artificial intelligence: Construction technology’s next frontier

Engineering and construction is behind the curve in implementing artificial intelligence solutions. Based on extensive research, we survey applications and algorithms to help bridge the technology gap.
Artificial intelligence: Construction technology’s next frontier

Build a case, build a following: Laying the groundwork to transform customer experience in government

Transforming government agencies to serve people better relies on making a compelling business case and inspiring supporters willing to champion the change. Here’s how.
Build a case, build a following: Laying the groundwork to transform customer experience in government

Is HR Missing the Point on Performance Feedback?

Microsoft’s next act

CEO Satya Nadella talks about innovation, disruption, and organizational change.
Microsoft’s next act

Leadership development as a competitive advantage

Talent should be part of every conversation in an organization, says the CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Group.
Leadership development as a competitive advantage

Five Fifty: Jerk factors

Maybe you don’t act like a jerk in the workplace, but you might turn into one when exposed to the following triggers.
Five Fifty: Jerk factors

The Right Way to Support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals