The Disruption Issue
The Disruption Issue

THE DISRUPTION ISSUE / 2017

The thing about disruption is that it’s not new. It’s been happening for centuries. Just think of the steam engine and the radical impact it had on the transportation and energy sectors, giving rise to mechanized production during the first Industrial Revolution. What is different is the rate and scope of disruptive change that is […]
Disruptive technology: managing in an age of instability
Disruptive technology: managing in an age of instability

THE DISRUPTION ISSUE / 2017

It is often said that technology transforms lives. The digital revolution is opening up new visions for the future from intelligent homes and appliances to driverless cars and genetic modelling which can create new drugs that target diseases previously thought incurable. Innovations like these are exciting but are also considered “disruptive” because they create a […]
Case study: Food Panda
Case study: Food Panda

THE DISRUPTION ISSUE / 2017

The emergence of collaborative consumption, which has given rise to the sharing economy, is just one example of a new way companies are being challenged to rethink their strategy. Over recent years, platforms like Airbnb and Uber have harnessed digital technology to revolutionize their industries, and now food delivery services have joined in the movement. […]
Can the 4th Industrial Revolution make the world a better place?
Can the 4th Industrial Revolution make the world a better place?

THE DISRUPTION ISSUE / 2017

Drawing upon the innovative CEMS HSG course ‘Disruption and Innovation in International Business’ we explore how disruptive technologies can make the world a better place. A bigger kind of disruption but undeniably beneficial As a result of the global financial crisis, younger and older generations alike are confronted by a series of systemic shocks that […]

THE DISRUPTION ISSUE:
MANAGING IN AN AGE OF INSTABILITY

The Disruption Issue

The thing about disruption is that it’s not new. It’s been happening for centuries. Just think of the steam engine and the radical impact...

Disruptive technology: managing in an age of instability

It is often said that technology transforms lives. The digital revolution is opening up new visions for the future from intelligent homes and appliances...

Case study: Food Panda

The emergence of collaborative consumption, which has given rise to the sharing economy, is just one example of a new way companies are being challenged...

Can the 4th Industrial Revolution make the world a better place?

Drawing upon the innovative CEMS HSG course ‘Disruption and Innovation in International Business’ we explore how disruptive technologies can make the world a better...

Bank advisor versus bank robot: how fintech can dovetail the two

A CEMS student project at Nomura Securities takes us into the world of Fintech, banking robots and beyond In spring 2016, a group of CEMS...

Digital disruption: an opportunity for cultural transformation

For companies to be and remain competitive in the future, they will have to increase the speed with which they innovate and create new...

Blockchain: technology as powerful as the internet?

Much ink has already been spilt on blockchain, with two distinct schools of thought wrestling for space in the headlines: those who proclaim that...

Business and management on the edge: how to survive in an era of chaos

Prof. Piotr Ploszajski of the Warsaw School of Economics shares his insights into how disruptive technology shapes and re-invents business, management and entrepreneurship Today, the...

How technological disruption leads to great fintech services

Kristóf Dócs of Corvinus Business School, Hungary, and President of the CEMS Club Budapest, explores how technological disruption leads to innovative and customer-centric Fintech...

Methods in the madness: social media and lessons from political leadership election campaigns

Keith Carter, takes a hard look at the US Presidential election to share the lessons we can learn from disruption in digital media. Playing on...

On track to transform disruption into opportunity

Eduard Matús, CEMS Alumnus and Marketing Manager ON!Track, and Josef Plachý, Talent Acquisition and Development Manager at Hilti, Eastern Europe, drill into the CEMS-Hilti...

Going up in the world: technological disruption can drive customer benefit

Teppo Voutilainen, Head of New Services & Solutions at KONE and Corporate Supervisor for Aalto-CEMS Business Projects in 2016 and 2017, explores the context...

Technological disruption: the ‘human touch’ will still have a place in work

Leslie Willcocks, Professor of Technology Work and Globalisation at London School of Economics, draws on his research to demonstrate a balanced view of the...