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The ISBM Pulse content library contains archived copies of previous member meeting presentations, webinars, courses, articles/reports, and a multitude of other knowledge. This material is freely available for our ISBM members.
McKinsey has published about how COVID-19 is affecting consumer behavior in five main ways. Review their findings across 45 countries.
Knowing how blockchain technology can support organizations’ strategies is important to avoid making costly investments – and to avoid missing out on valuable opportunities. In this article, Toppo Felin and Karim Lakhani describe the basic distributed digital ledger technology underlying blockchain. Next, the authors describe which types of problems can be solved with blockchain technology. Examples include payment for intellectual property rights, the establishment of historical ownership of tangible products, and the tracing of raw materials and components across the supply chain.
Just over a week ago, the Yale School of Management organized their Business Sustainability Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The conference was held virtually as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several business leaders shared details on the sustainability initiatives deployed at their organizations.
What distinguishes growth leaders from growth laggards? In this interview, George Day and Gregory P. Shea discuss how organically growing firms successfully attract, nurture, and retain innovation talent. The commitment to innovation is ingrained in a firm’s culture and organizational structures and processes. Innovation talent is drawn to organizations with these characteristics.
This article reports on survey research among the CEOs of over 500 Chinese firms. The research discusses three biases and how they affect CEO decision making during the pandemic. The optimism-versus-pessimism bias impacts aspects like leadership, employee engagement, and messaging. Another source of bias comes from a cost focus – as opposed to a people focus. The third aspect of this research is the short-term-versus-long-term bias, affecting survival of the firm.
Data wrapping is the practice of giving data and analytics to customers as product features and customer experiences, with the goal of increasing a product’s value proposition. The users of these data wrapping functionalities are the company’s customers – not the employees. And as this is a customer oriented feature being a part of the product offering, the product road map is lead by product owners – not IT. It is an interesting strategy to monetize data – in a way that extends the product value proposition.
The pandemic has emphasized the importance of governments to work with the latest innovations and technologies available. Fighting COVID-19 requires data-derived insights and advanced technology to allow quick response to ever-changing conditions. For many government agencies – in the US and elsewhere – shortcomings have come painfully into view. Many countries have responded to the need for modernization by channeling aid packages and funds to government telework, telehealth, cybersecurity and network bandwidth projects.
Decision making is – mostly – done by humans. And human beings are not necessarily always rational beings. Some of our business decisions are affected by cognitive and organizational biases. McKinsey has collected articles in their “Bias Busters series”, which presents articles on the most common biases and ways you can address them.
The unexpected nature showed how many firms were not ready for supply chain disruptions. B2B marketplaces may offer solutions in the reassessment and reconfiguration of supply chains. B2B marketplaces are often building tailored workflow software, which offers the potential for streamlining procurement processes. This article, published on Medium, discusses tailored workflows on three marketplaces: Laserhub, Faire, and Zageno.
Racism has, unfortunately, affected businesses for years. Customers, employees, managers, and CEOs all may find themselves in situations in which racism plays a role. Many companies consider sending their employees to a diversity training. But are these diversity programs effective? This article from Knowledge at Wharton – from 2018, but more current than ever – discusses unconscious bias and ways to combat it.
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