Technological change is almost always told as a story of destruction. A new thing is invented, and it crushes everything in its path. From Frankenstein’s monster terrorising villagers in 1818, through post-nuclear Godzilla stomping Tokyo flat, we have ended up in 2015...
In my eyes and in the wake of the disruptive digital force shaping our present and near future, building and nurturing trust and influence with all your stakeholders is one of the very key issues that any executive should put first on his/her strategic agenda. As a...
Over the last two decades digital technologies have manifested themselves as an extremely powerful combination of mutually reinforcing, exponential drivers of fundamental change. At first this change took the form of exciting new channels to markets, a step change in...
Augmented & Virtual Reality – Is it a fad or a sustainable trend? Virtual reality (VR) is clearly in the process of becoming a trend for communication by brands and by corporations. In North America, the content in virtual reality and augmented reality (AR) is...
Luxury digital The digital strategies of luxury brands run the gamut from avant-garde (Burberry) to retrograde (e.g. Celine [LVMH] and most old-fashioned watch brands, such as Vacheron Constantin & Blancpain, that refuse to do eCommerce). Whether through...
If the issue of digital transformation is indeed more about mindset than money, one must ineluctably come to grips with the allocation of those scarce resources. This infographic, based on a survey of more than 300 top executives in the US, looks at the thorny...