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Here are the Top Ten:
1. Changing change management: Research tells us that most change efforts fail. Yet change methodologies are stuck in a predigital era. It’s high time to start catching up.
2. Disrupting beliefs: A new approach to business-model innovation: In a disruptive age, established business models are under attack. Here’s how incumbent companies can reframe them.
3. What ‘digital’ really means: Everyone wants to go digital. The first step is truly understanding what that is.
4. An executive’s guide to the Internet of Things: The rate of adoption is accelerating. Here are six things you need to know.
5. How to separate learning myths from reality: Misconceptions about the brain are embedded in corporate training programs and could be sabotaging their effectiveness. Companies should reevaluate them in light of the latest scientific insights.
6. Shifting tides: Global economic scenarios for 2015–25: Are we in for a bumpy ride? How bumpy? And for how long?
7. An executive’s guide to machine learning: It’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix.
8. Unlocking the potential of the Internet of Things: If policy makers and businesses get it right, linking the physical and digital worlds could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025.
9. Ten books to make you a better business technologist: What books does McKinsey’s James Kaplan put on his must-read list for business technologists? You may be surprised.
10. Raising your digital quotient: Following the leader is a dangerous game. It’s better to focus on building an organization and culture that can realize the strategy that’s right for you.
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