Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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A few days ago I read an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review, – Empathy Is Still Lacking in the Leaders Who Need It Most, – by Ernest Wilson, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). The article is based on the Third Space, a…
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Most everyone will agree that advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) are radically transforming the business landscape. But, how are these transformations playing out industry by industry? This question was explored in Industries in Transformation, a series of reports developed by Ericsson in collaboration with the Imperial College Business School and the UK’s Sustainable…
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The Internet era was born around 20 years ago, when Netscape went public in August of 1995 and caught the world by storm with its highly successful IPO. For many people, myself included, the Netscape IPO marked the passage of the Internet from a network primarily used by universities, research labs and the technical community…
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Over the last several decades, digital technologies have been transforming just about every industry. But few have been as disrupted by the dramatic advances in technology as the media industries. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced and delivered, to the sources of revenue and profits. I’ve been closely…
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I’ve been involved in a number of interesting projects in my long career, but perhaps none more so than IBM’s Internet initiative in the mid-late 1990s. In the Fall of 1995, Lou Gerstner, – IBM’s then Chairman and CEO, – made the decision to embrace the rapidly growing Internet as the centerpiece of IBM’s strategic…
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On November 21 I participated in a Think & Do workshop at USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL). AIL was founded in 2010 as part of USC’s Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism to study the transformational impact of technology and cultural changes on the media industry. I’ve been a member of AIL’s Advisory Board since…
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I’ve long been interested in the impact of digital technologies on the media industry. While all industries are subject to the forces of creative destruction, media is one of the most affected. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced and delivered, to the sources of revenue and profits. It…
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A few weeks ago, NY Times columnist David Brooks posted an OpEd on The Evolution of Trust. The OpEd is focused on Airbnb, the online platform where people list and book accommodations all over the world, which now has over 600,000 listings in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries. Brooks thought that people would…
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USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL) was founded in 2010 to study the transformational impact of technology on culture and on the media industries. The Lab is involved in three main kinds of activities: research on the overall media landscape and its impact on society; design challenges to promote the development of innovative prototypes, applications and…
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Storytelling has played a central role in human communications since times immemorial. Storytelling predates writing. Oral narratives were used by many ancient cultures as a way of passing along their traditions, beliefs and learning from generation to generation. Over the centuries, the nature of storytelling has significantly evolved with the advent of writing and the…