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Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business offers the Kelley AI Playbook, a working guide that shows faculty how to weave generative AI into teaching, grading, research, and service — and how to do it responsibly.

“This is instruction-heavy because that’s the front line,” according to Dean Patrick Hopkins. “But really it’s about transparency — how do you go about ethically utilizing … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource, Prospective MBA Content | Author: Marc Ethier | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Prospective

When AI handles the analytical grunt work—such as research, drafting, debugging, and problem decomposition—that junior employees have traditionally performed and learned from, they miss out on the formative repetitions that build judgment. Several leaders noted that a person cannot develop discernment without first doing the work. The reinforcing cycle of de-skilling is already visible, as one leader described, “Less hands-on practice feeds into less ownership, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Charikleia Kaffe, David Martin, Sagar Goel | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Human Resources, IT / Technology / E-Business, Training & Development

Customer privacy has become an increasingly complex and contentious topic, as the tools and technologies capturing data about every facet of our lives have proliferated. Many consumers now believe they no longer have control of information about themselves and are starting to pay closer attention to how information about them is collected.

Managing privacy in this ever more data-centric world could require new thinking. This report … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Al Srinivas, Sam Friedman, Tiffany Ramsay | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Privacy

Drawing on research of transformative companies, PwC Strategy& authors recommend ways that executive teams can disrupt themselves and become leaders in the digital age.

Content: Article | Authors: Mahadeva Matt Mani, Paul Leinwand | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Malone, the author of 2004’s The Future of Work and a pioneering researcher in the field of collective intelligence, is in a singular position to understand the potential of AI technologies to transform workers, workplaces, and societies. In this conversation with Deloitte’s Jim Guszcza and Jeff Schwartz, he discusses a vision outlined in his recent book Superminds—a framework for achieving new forms of human-machine collective … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jeff Schwartz, Jim Guszcza, Thomas Malone | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Decision Making, IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

An infographic from WebCommander explores the steps you have to take to launch a successful site. It provides an in-depth checklist covering what every website needs to do, from making a great impression to converting visitors.

Content: Article | Author: Ayaz Nanji | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Adapting to rapidly evolving technology means investing in people who drive change on the ground.

Content: Article | Authors: Dinu de Kroon, Enno de Boer, Rahul Shahani, Sydney Alabaster | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, IT / Technology / E-Business

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, learn how to create more effective AI prompts using insights from Wharton research.

Content: Article | Authors: Ethan Mollick, Kartik Hosanagar, Prasanna Tambe, Stefano Puntoni | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Productivity / Work Tips

Cognitive technologies and business process reengineering could be a match made in heaven, but only if organizations do the work to redesign their processes with cognitive technologies’ specific capabilities in mind.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management, Process

We hope that the next wave of technology actually frees up managers and gives them more time to be more effective leaders. But there’s a risk that, unguided, we end up in a world where managers spend even less time (as a percentage per employee) on coaching.

Content: Quotation | Author: Bryan Hancock | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Coaching, Human Resources, IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize strategy activities. But as AI adoption spreads, strategists will need proprietary data, creativity, and new skills to develop unique options.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexander D’Amico, Andrea Tricoli, Antoine Montard, Bruce Delteil, Eric Hazan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

Most technology revolutions have required accompanying applied innovations to unlock their full potential. Electricity in itself did not immediately translate into big productivity gains for industry. This only happened as new technologies like electric motors and social innovations like new factory layouts took hold.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Christian Stadler, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

A new technology can be novel, it can be useful, it can even generate massive value for consumers and providers, but without creating sustainable competitive advantage in specific applications, it can easily distract and divert attention and resources from more promising opportunities.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Christian Stadler, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Cognitive technologies, a product of the field of artificial intelligence, can and will be used to eliminate jobs. But leaders face choices about how to apply cognitive technologies. These decisions will determine whether workers are marginalized or empowered, and whether their organizations are creating value or merely cutting costs.

Content: Article | Authors: David Schatsky, Jeff Schwartz | Source: Deloitte Review | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Some changes enabled by the Internet of Things will be incremental, while others will be transformative. Yet the need to capture value remains as acute as ever. The established principles of strategic differentiation, process flow, and network economics will go a long way toward revealing a path to long-term success.

Content: Article | Author: Mark Cotteleer | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

The disruptive premise of Web3 is built on three fundamentals: the blockchain that stores all data on asset ownership and the history of conducted transactions; “smart” contracts that represent application logic and can execute specific tasks independently; and digital assets that can represent anything of value and engage with smart contracts to become “programmable.” Each of these three fundamentals has layers of complexity and nuance, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Anutosh Banerjee, Ian De Bode, Matt Higginson, Robert Byrne | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

We need to recognize that business is all about data-centricity right now. This represents a change in the way most businesspeople think about operations. For the past 30 or 40 years, we have all been focused on process reengineering. Every management consultant wrote a book on process engineering. Now, as I tell people in our companies, process maturity is no longer your day job. If … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Natarajan Chandrasekaran | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Operations

Sharing data with competitors might sound scary to executives, but only collaboration can solve some of industry’s biggest problems. Fortunately, new technology is making it easier and safer for companies to build trust and pool data in order to tackle problems that they can’t solve alone.

Content: Article | Author: Marcos Aguiar | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

New research offers business and technology leaders insights into the age-old challenge of improving IT productivity.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexey Ivanov, André Jerenz, Arsen Storozhev, Leorizio D’Aversa, Natalia Boksha, Naufal Khan, Rahil Jogani | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, IT / Technology / E-Business

Generative AI is already making its way into the day-to-day world of M&A, and more use cases are emerging. How should companies approach the opportunity?

Content: Article | Authors: Ben Ellencweig, Julia Berbel, Mieke Van Oostende, Rui Silva | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Mergers & Acquisitions