Business Technology

Creating a business-integrated services company: An interview with UniCredit’s Paolo Cederle

September 2013—Paolo Cederle, CEO of Milan-based UniCredit’s new multiservices company, is pushing to make IT and operations work in tandem with the bank’s business divisions to improve the customer experience.more

Breaking the US growth impasse

August 2013—Business leaders can give the US economy a shot in the arm by stepping out of their comfort zones, pursuing innovative partnerships, and creating industry standards.more

Bullish on digital: McKinsey Global Survey results

August 2013—CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.more

Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of application development

August 2013—Software has become critical for most large enterprises. They should adopt a reliable output metric that is integrated with the process for gathering application requirements.more

Game changers: Five opportunities for US growth and renewal

July 2013—Five catalysts can reignite the US economy—opportunities in energy, trade, technology, infrastructure, and talent development can add hundreds of billions of dollars to annual GDP and create millions of new jobs by 2020.more

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Enabling enterprise collaboration

July 2013—Strong collaboration among employees is a critical part of success in many enterprises. As a result, in many companies IT infrastructure executives are working through how best to select, deploy, and support the right set of collaboration tools. Here are several ways to derive value from those tools.

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The Internet of Things and the future of manufacturing

June 2013—Executives at Robert Bosch and McKinsey experts discuss the technology-driven changes that promise to trigger a new industrial revolution.more

Connecting everything: A conversation with Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior

May 2013—Cisco’s chief technology and strategy officer describes how the exponential growth of connectivity between people and devices, both mobile and network, will change commerce, business systems, and individual behavior.more

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Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson

May 2013—A leading expert explores the new relationship between man and machine and the challenges that emerge when innovation is decoupled from growth in jobs and incomes.more

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The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology

June 2013—Board members should raise nine critical questions when discussing technology strategy with IT and business managers.more

The Internet of Things

March 2010—More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.more

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How big data can revolutionize pharmaceutical R&D

April 2013—Pharmaceutical R&D suffers from declining success rates and a stagnant pipeline. Big data and the analytics that go with it could be a key element of the cure.more

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A strategic role for China’s CIOs

June 2013—CIOs have a key part to play as Chinese enterprises start looking to IT for business growth and global competitiveness.more