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The $11 Trillion Question: How Will You Capture Value on the Internet of Things? by CDT
“The size of the potential prize is enormous, $4 to 11 trillion” by 2025, said Michael Chui, partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, coauthor of its recent study, “The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype,” and moderator of a panel on the business...
Incumbents Strike Back by CDT
“We are living in an age when the risk to industry leaders is greater than ever before,” wrote Richard Foster in his seminal work on innovation. “Not only will technological discontinuities come with increasing frequency…but during these discontinuities the attackers...
A Duty to Digital: The Board of Directors’ Role in Driving Change by CDT
Earlier this year, the editors of 24/7 Wall St. made a list of CEOs who needed to be fired. “CEOs who have repeatedly failed to successfully execute their own primary strategies made this list.” Of the CEO of American Express, they wrote, “With the rise of Visa,...
The Magic of Digital: A Platform for Enhancing Everyone’s Vacation by CDT
What’s one of the most popular wearables in the world? The Disney MagicBand, according to Vivek Sharma of Disney Parks and Resorts. In two years, Disney has shipped over 18 million bands to guests of Walt Disney World in Orlando. It’s a component of Disney’s digital...
Reinvention at Scale: The Role of Chief Digital Officer at GE by CDT
“Predix is our Uber,” said Bill Ruh, CEO of GE Digital and Chief Digital Officer of General Electric. Ruh was speaking of GE’s cloud-based software and analytics platform that supports such business lines as aviation, healthcare, mining, oil and gas, and...
Harvard Business Review Online Article: You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One by Vijay Gurbaxani
The Center for Digital Transformation is pleased to share that the Harvard Business Review has published an article written by our Founding Director, Vijay Gurbaxani. What could your company accomplish if it were to think like a software company? In his article, You...
Are You a Super Aggregator or Among the Super Aggregated? Six Evergreen Questions for Incumbents by CDT
Shafiq Khan, senior vice president of channel strategy and distribution at Marriott International, spoke about Marriott’s digital strategy at a recent Center for Digital Transformation symposium.[1] His talk surfaced six questions that executives of incumbent...
Cognizant: Disruption is an Inside Job by CDT
How has one of Forbes “25 fastest-growing technology companies sustained its compound annual growth rate of 30 percent for the last 20 years? “By continually challenging ourselves to bring new offerings to the marketplace and find new ways to help our customers,”...