Big Data Decision Making
The process used to gather information in making decisions can be as important as the decisions. Do you rely more on sophisticated analytics or intuition?
Information Management/Technology (IT)
Editorial: Taking Management Education to a Whole New Level
Imagine a management education learning environment where the student is fully engaged and where the instructor serves as a Play-by-Play-Man!
Editorial: Lightning in a Bottle!
Analytics can, through the use of various Big Data-driven computer models, significantly enhance the decision-making process and, thus, hopefully performance.
High Performance Work Systems
While foolish for companies to spend money unwisely in managing human capital, growing research confirms that “high performance work systems” are worth the investment.
Crowdsourcing Management Education
Crowdsourcing is one approach for meeting the challenges of the changing needs of the business community and the programs offered by the business management community.
EDITORIAL: To MOOC or not to MOOC, is that the Question?
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in management education are growing rapidly in response to exorbitant tuitions, tightening budgets, limited class availability, and globalization.
Let the Social Networking Games Begin
Business managers are encouraged to assess the value of social networking games for HR processes to enhance the organization’s performance and value of workers.
Moving from Misuse to Bricolage
In today’s world of increasing complexity, unpredictability, and rapid pace there is more demand for innovation than corporations are currently able to meet.
EDITORIAL: The New Paradigm for Management Education
Today business schools are under growing pressure to engage in significant reforms due to globalization, rising tuitions, and unprecedented economic uncertainty.
Facebook: Data Mining the World’s Largest Focus Group
With the amount of data at Facebook’s disposal, can it accurately predict outcomes within the volatile financial markets? If so, can aalso manipulate or influence such predicted events?
Beyond the Numbers
An implicit challenge is to coordinate the efforts of groups with different interests to realize expected gains. This means that acquisitions quickly go from numbers to considering the impacts on people, as achieving synergy requires clear communication of the implications of an acquisition to those impacted.
Transorganizations: Managing in a Complex and Uncertain World
Management in a connected, interdependent, and information intensive world requires new thinking and innovative approaches. The increasing interdependence and complexity of organizations and institutions call for transorganizational thinking.
Editorial: The World of Graduate Management Education Turned Up Side Down
Globalization is bringing about a radical rethink regarding the content and delivery of graduate management education.
VIDEO: Transforming the Relationship between Business and IT Executives
Dr. George Westerman studies the impact of digital technology on the management of large firms. In this video interview, he discusses the changing role of CIO.
Self-Organizing Conversation as an Invitation to Serendipity
In a relentlessly changing world, self-organizing conversation can enable learning, adaptation, influence, and co-evolution for the firm.