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Issue 2, 2015

The Change Side of Transformation - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

In the new era of "Hypercompetition", companies increasingly need to be agile enough to reinvent and transform themselves. In this article the authors take a closer look at transformation, focusing on the human or change management aspects which are widely recognized as the key obstacles to success.
Organization & transformation
Issue 1, 2015

Capturing sustainable value from technology: a case for strategic licensing

Businesses can no longer afford to simply protect their intellectual property (IP) and use it defensively to prevent competitors encroaching on their territory. Moving to actively licensing IP is increasingly critical for open innovation, provides a powerful mechanism for revenue generation, and is...
Technology & innovation management
Issue 1, 2015

Becoming a next practice business

Everyone knows the real world is complex. And everyone knows the digital era has created a level of uncertainty, disruption and possibility that has never been seen before. And yet management culture embedded in some of the world’s largest companies merely serves to artificially simplify the real...
Technology & innovation management
Issue 1, 2015

“Airports are no longer protected players”

Since becoming chairman and CEO of Aéroports de Paris in 2012, Augustin de Romanet has grown the airport operator to become the largest in the world by market capitalization. In this interview he shares his views on the challenges faced by the aviation industry and how they can be met, sets out his...
Travel & transportation
Issue 1, 2015

The Breakthrough Factory

One of the key challenges for large corporations looking to achieve “Breakthrough Innovation” is that technology-intensive businesses usually need to research deeply into science in order to find breakthroughs.The challenge is particularly daunting for mature companies. In this article the authors...
Technology & innovation management
Issue 1, 2015

Organizing for Breakthrough Innovation

Our recent Breakthrough Innovation survey identified that having the correct organizational model for Breakthrough Innovation is one of the key ways of ensuring success. In this article the authors shed light on the various models available for achieving Breakthrough Innovation, their pros and cons...
Technology & innovation management
Issue 2, 2014

“We should embrace the future for all the opportunities it holds, and have...

Gemalto is a world-leader in digital security solutions and devices – Gemalto technology is in the pockets of one out of every two human beings in the world today. In our interview with Olivier Piou, the CEO of Gemalto, he shares his own unique insights on the current state of digital security and...
Automotive
Issue 2, 2014

Radical Change for European Power Utilities

The extensive disruption caused by the large-scale development of renewable power generation capacity in Europe continues to change the industry. For European power utilities the question is how they can react to these changes. In this piece the authors update a previous Prism article, examining...
Utilities & alternative energy
Issue 2, 2014

Anticipating the Operations of the Future

During the last decade business operations have been transformed in a way that has never been seen before. What does the future hold for operations management and how can it react to ever accelerating change? In this brief article the authors take a quick look at some of the likely characteristics...
Operations management
Issue 2, 2014

Looking Under the Hood of the Internet

Over the last decade, the nature of the traffic for which the Internet and its ecosystem was initially developed has fundamentally changed. Next-generation content and applications are being designed all the time, but there are some hidden bottlenecks preventing these from achieving their full...
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)