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Month: July 2019
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The Transformative Power of Blockchain
No comments on The Transformative Power of Blockchain“Blockchain matters because no business operates in isolation,” says Blockchain for Business, a recently published book by Jai Arun, Jerry Cuomo, and Nitin Gaur. “Multiple institutions can achieve more together than any single institution can alone. By implementing business processes that leverage the collective knowledge of the group, processes can be orders of magnitude more…
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The global economy has undergone considerable change over the past few decades. Results have been mixed. On the positive side, the digital revolution has significantly improved the quality of life of billions around the world. Technology advances like the smartphone and wireless Internet, and the economic development brought about by globalization have led to the…
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Adapting to the ongoing digitization of the economy is one of the key challenges faced by just about every company around the world. While there are many ways a company can leverage digital technologies to differentiate itself from competitors, two are particularly prominent: streamline operations to develop higher quality products at competitive prices, and provide…
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A couple of years ago I attended a seminar by University of Toronto professor Avi Goldfarb, who along with UoT colleagues has been conducting research on the economic value of AI. Goldfarb explained that the best way to assess the impact of a new radical technology is to look at how the technology reduces the…
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I recently heard a very interesting presentation at the 2019 MIT CIO Symposium, – Why Companies Need an Augmented Reality Strategy, – by Harvard professor Michael Porter and James Heppelmann, CEO of PTC, an industrial software company. The talk was based on their HBR article A Manager’s Guide to Augmented Reality. We generally think of…