Industrial-scale mining techniques are now available to governments, large corporations and even individual prospectors. What are the new tools of big data? Read excerpts from the conversation below. MANYIKA: Is this big data thing a...
Companies, regardless of industry, are transforming themselves with technology. Successful techonomic businesses must learn to continuously transform their nervous systems with software. Read excerpts from the conversation below. ZANCA: At FedEx, technology is embedded in our...
The global economic crisis made urgent a discussion of the economic implications of globalizing technology. Productivity gains continue, but will jobs grow as well? Read excerpts from the discussion below. MANYIKA: Until the 1990s, whenever GDP...
Business is struggling to keep up with employees and consumers empowered by social media to broadcast their desires and discontents with unprecedented speed. Where will the current wave of social media-based enterprise collaboration tools take...
Read excerpts from the debate below. COWEN: Median income in this country has not risen since 1997, and is up only about 25% since 1973. There has been no new net job growth over the...
Read a summary of the discussion below. You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development Goals in health and education without e-health and e-education. Government can’t provide services without e-government. We need to...
Read a summary of the discussion below. To educate Russian consumers in online shopping, I needed to focus on their offline experience. Today 30% of our first-time buyers and 10% of loyal customers make purchases...
Read a summary of the discussion below. We’ve made things like viruses and vaccines, and we’re starting to engineer single cells. What happens when we can make a vaccine as easily as we can make...
Read a summary of the discussion below. Intellectual property theft is at epic proportions and growing, and no one is immune. If it could happen to RSA, it could happen to every single organization in...
