Column van Jan Kuitenbrouwer in NRC 11 december 2014 Mijn suggestie voor woord van het jaar: ‘disruptie’. 2014 is het jaar van de disruptie. Disruptie is overal. Wist u bijvoorbeeld dat de markt voor hoortoestellen ‘rijp is voor disruptie’? De bloemenhandel wordt gedisrupteerd as we speak en afgelopen maandag ontsprong de Nederlandse
Bell Pottinger verzamelde de belangrijkste digitale trends voor 2015. Geen glazen bol, maar meer een rangrijst op basis van trending topics op sociale media. Vandaar de hoge score van de usual suspects NFC, Internet of Things, Big Data en content marketing. Bron: Bell Pottinger
As artificial intelligence takes hold, what will it take to be an effective executive? Bron: McKinsey&Company In a 1967 McKinsey Quarterly article, “The manager and the moron,” Peter Drucker noted that “the computer makes no decisions; it only carries out orders. It’s a total moron, and therein lies its strength. It forces
This connectivity trend is now recognized as a source of growth for semiconductor players and their customers. Here we consider the opportunities and constraints for components manufacturers. Bron: McKinsey&Company The semiconductor industry has been able to weather the fallout from the global financial crisis and realize several years of healthy growth—in
Bron: Strategy+Business Not long ago, I was at the White House visiting a friend who works on climate change issues. We were talking about her work when I happened to mention the word resilience. She groaned—the word seemed to have become simultaneously ubiquitous and meaningless in both policy circles and general
His confrontational business approach has provoked a ban in Delhi, protest in Paris and a PR disaster in Sydney, but the meter on his Uber cab app is at £25bn and shows no sign of slowing down Bron: the Observer 21 december 2014 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in Beijing, 17
Bron: Trouw 22 december 2014 De Tweede Kamer begrijpt niet hoe snel de ontwikkelingen gaan in de IT-sector, betoogt IT’er Hans van Bommel. ‘Een agentschap houdt die alleen maar tegen.’ HANS VAN BOMMEL, IT-ONDERNEMER, MEDE-AUTEUR VAN ‘DE VERBINDING, IT EN DE KUNST VAN HET AUTOMATISEREN’ Een ongewoon grote meerderheid van
Bron: Harvard Business Review 10 december 2014 The technologies of the past, by replacing human muscle, increased the value of human effort – and in the process drove rapid economic progress. Those of the future, by substituting for man’s senses and brain, will accelerate that process – but at the risk of
Not all investments in digital appear to pay off—a selective approach is essential when digitizing the enterprise. Bron: McKinsey&Company December 2014 | by Giuliano Caldo, Matthias Hoene, and Tunde Olanrewaju Digital technology is transforming the financial-services industry, and banks face the challenge of fully digitizing their businesses. To do so, they must
Bron: David Breugem De oer-organisatie (volgens Belbin) In de tijd dat de aarde bevolkt werd door jagers en veedrijvers was het sociale leven eenvoudig, spontaan en saamhorig. Deze hechte, nomadisch levende groepen ontwikkelden relaties die niet of nauwelijks op het uitoefenen van persoonlijke macht waren gebaseerd. Vrouwen speelden in