Editorial: How AI Can Help Developing Countries Post COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis is one event that has intensified the need for urgent action by developing countries to utilize technologies like AI to drive economic growth.
Strategy
Pandemic Demonstrates the Necessity of Intuitive Decision-Making Skills
The pandemic has clearly proven that the rational decision-making model, business schools’ ideal and its theoretical definition of how decisions should be made, is not valid under conditions of VUCA.
Boba, Milk, and Toilet Paper
Although it appears that the pandemic caused the disruption, when examining each disrupted supply chain carefully, it instead exposed the excessive risk of each supply chain.
Developing a KPI-driven Data Strategy
With the vast ecosystem of information technology systems available to management along with the wide-ranging analytical techniques that can be applied to data, knowing where to start the journey toward a data-driven decision-making approach can be daunting to management.
B2B Opportunities for Smart Device Manufacturers
Although smart device manufacturers have positioned themselves strongly in the Business to Consumer (B2C) segment, this might well be the right time for these businesses to invest in the vastly overlooked opportunities in the Business to Business (B2B) segment.
After the Covid-19 Economic Crisis
Introduction Value for Money (VfM) analysis helps governments decide whether it is more cost-effective to do a project through traditional procurement, or through PPPs. State government financial departments, project teams, and senior management can run this type of simplified VfM analysis with the help of a few consultants in order to select the ideal type … Continued
Editorial: How AI can Help Reduce Sports Injuries
Although attendance and revenues continue to decline, the challenges associated with player injuries continue unabated.
Strategic Principles in a Troubled World
The global COVID-19 pandemic has created the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Despite the challenges of today’s unprecedented times, there are, nonetheless, strategic principles that merit thoughtful consideration in solving today’s unprecedented problems.
Unprecedented Times
Companies should leverage new cost savings, optimize critical assets, and be purposeful with building or sustaining their company culture in a digitally distributed environment, while taking into consideration the human factor more than ever before.
Change Can Be Crazy
Readers are promised four proven techniques to create enduring value when implementing change. When applied, leaders can make a difference in more productive change efforts.
The SECURE Act
This article summarizes how prescriptive analytics techniques are used in practice by retirees to maximize retirement portfolio longevity. The authors then contribute to this applied research by assessing how the SECURE Act affects the value of a retiree’s bequest.
Exemplary Customer Service
This case study provides a tool and methodologies used to assist public accounting firms and other financial and managerial consultants in assessing their strengths, weaknesses and GAPs for delivering quality consulting and client service that their clients seek.
Avoiding Bias and Identifying Risks when Deploying Artificial Intelligence
The deployment of AI fits into the broader umbrella of cyber risk as part of enterprise risk identification and mitigation. It is essential for AI to address ethical issues such as data bias and to ensure AI is deployed to achieve the bottom-line and top-line goals.
Disney vs. Comcast
A look at how a large company strategically handles competitive rivalry in order to provide practitioners with important lessons of how to strategically thrive in a competitive environment.
Editorial: COVID-19 and the Future of Management Education
Many B-schools have responded to COVID-19 by increasing their online presence as a stopgap measure in the short term and potentially a long-term solution to ongoing economic challenges. These actions may not be a complete solution to the problem.