Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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In early June I spent a few days in Mexico City. The main purpose of the trip was to participate and give a keynote at the 2016 Cumbre de Directores (Director’s Summit), a conference sponsored by Endeavor Mexico in collaboration with the IPADE Business School. Endeavor is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to long-term economic…
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Last February, President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity within the Department of Commerce. The Commission is charged with “recommending bold, actionable steps that the government, private sector, and the nation as a whole can take to bolster cybersecurity in today’s digital world, and reporting back by the beginning…
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Over the past several decades, information technologies (IT) have been fundamentally transforming companies, industries and the economy in general. In its early years, – ’60s, ’70s, ’80s – companies deployed IT primarily to automate their existing processes, – leaving the underlying structure of the business in place. It wasn’t until the 1990s, – with the…
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For the past few decades, digital technologies have been systematically transforming one industry after another. The transformations have generally proceeded along three different stages. First comes the use of IT to improve the productivity and quality of production-oriented, back-end processes. Distribution comes next, leveraging the universal reach and connectivity of the Internet over the past…
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Digital technologies are all around us, – increasingly ubiquitous and commoditized. But, are they a major source of competitive differentiation? Are they still a strategic value to business? Can digital innovation drive long term economic growth? Several weeks ago, the McKinsey’s Global Institute (MGI) published a report addressing these questions. Digital America: A tale of…
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Transformational innovations don’t always play out as originally envisioned. Once in the marketplace, they seem to acquire a life of their own. Lest we forget, the Internet started out as a DARPA sponsored project aimed at developing a robust, fault-tolerant computer network. ARPANET was launched in 1969, and by the mid-1980s, it had grown and…
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The October 31 issue of The Economist featured the blockchain in its cover: “The Trust Machine: How the technology behind Bitcoin could change the world.” Its two articles on the subject explain what blockchains are about, as well as why we should care about an exotic technology that involves concepts from cryptography, game theory and…
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A few weeks ago I attended the 12th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty. Organized by the Brookings Institution, the Blum Roundtable brings together policy and technical experts from government, academia, business, investors and NGOs from all over the world. This year’s event, – Disrupting Development with Digital Technologies, – explored the impact of…
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Last year, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University published Digital Planet: Readying for the Rise of the e-Consumer. The report, – based on a research study by the Fletcher School in collaboration with MasterCard*, – explores the economic transformations taking place around the world as countries continue their evolution toward the 21st…
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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum collaborated in a project called A History of the World, based on one hundred objects from the collection of the British Museum, around which you can tell the history of humanity over the past two million years. The history was also presented in a series of fifteen minute…