Crowdsourcing is not yet a major trend in the business world, in part because it’s difficult to put the infrastructure in place and build a community. The human cloud helps business to bypass this problem as it offers a global pool of online workers and a platform to interact with them. Prof. Evgeny Káganer tells […]
Are You Ready for Corporate Social Networks?
Facebook is too open for corporate social networks but companies are buying into new networks in readiness for social networks becoming part of their product roster. The time has come for leaders to think how they want to connect employees with their boss, their team and their peers. IESE Professor Sandra Sieber discusses the main […]
Distance is Dead, Time is Not
Technology has given us new modes of communication but has done nothing to eradicate the problem of working across time zones, say Prof. Erran Carmel. Managers have to learn to timeshift in order to accommodate people working in other zones. The benefits are the ability to work around the clock or to pass on work […]
Looking Ahead to 2013
The coming year is going to determine what we are going to see in the teens of this century, says Prof. Ghemawat from Brazil. Meanwhile in Madrid, Prof. González-Páramo urges Europe and US to be part of the solution, not the problem. From New York, Prof. Sandra Sieber asks executives to think about how they […]
