Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Una perspectiva cultural base cero para tratar la realidad híbrida de la tecnología en las escuelas de negocios
Susan Fournier y Howard Thomas exploran el futuro de una nueva escuela de negocios, cuestionan los enfoques existentes e identifican y examinan cinco cuestiones fundamentales.
Read MoreHow a new study-abroad scheme points the way for European business schools
The potential of technology, broadening cooperation and accessibility and tearing down barriers, by Josep Franch.
Read MoreA zero-based cultural perspective on dealing with the hybrid reality of teaching in business schools
Susan Fournier and Howard Thomas explore a new business school future, question existing approaches and identify and examine five core issues.
Read MoreSpaceTime is everything
SpaceTime is the physical universe inside which we and everything else exists. What is the significance of this phenomenon to the business world?
Read MoreLearning and teaching boldly: The EdTech start-up in the room
Paul Somers and Dr Shazia K Jan look at how a partnership collectively pushes the boundaries between higher education and EdTech to address a long-standing and common problem.
Read MoreSynchronous or asynchronous online teaching
Previous discussions on synchronous or asynchronous teaching focused on technical and didactical aspects. But the decision on online teaching formats is also highly relevant to a school’s strategy. Thomas Bieger and Samuel Heer explore its impacts on long term value for students, resource planning, and in the end the positioning of the school in the academic value chain
Read MoreDriving customer retention and project success through professionalisation
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of €11 billion. It is the European number one in Cybersecurity, Cloud and High-Performance Computing, providing tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 71 countries.
Read MoreEdtech as a catalyst for the advancement of ecosystem-based management education
A prolific research stream has investigated the role of universities and schools in innovation ecosystems and their participation as economic development partners with industry and local, state, and national governments. However, the recent developments of business schools’ “business and organisational models” have opened a new question: are the emerging networks surrounding schools and the unbundling process of their provisions transforming them into educational ecosystems?
Read MoreHow technology is challenging traditional leadership
Technology should be taking the routine work away from individuals, releasing them to use their creative human skills, which cannot easily be replaced by a machine.
Read MoreFighting COVID-19 with technology
New entrepreneurial technologies can enable safe face-to-face teaching at our universities, says Gunther Friedl In March 2020, like all German universities, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) shifted all teaching to online. Germany enforced a lockdown, and all universities were prohibited from face-to-face teaching. While online teaching worked surprisingly well, and students commended our activities…
Read MoreCurriculum 4.0 for Industry 4.0
Educational institutions globally are facing major challenges, a function of tectonic shifts in the techno-socio-economic landscape and the digital revolution occurring in Industry 4.0, ushering in the shift from an industrial to a knowledge economy.
Read MoreEngaging with Technology
Why this time around is different Getting computers to do our bidding has always been a bit mysterious to those of us not steeped in machine code, operating systems, and programming. We were content, if that is the right word, to muddle through command-line interfaces (CLIs) and then GUIs (graphical user interfaces), the ones…
Read MoreLa educación aumentada digital – ¿Estás listo para experimentar?
Chengyi Lin investiga la historia algo accidentada de la tecnología en la educación de gestión, pero es optimista sobre su futuro
Read MoreDigital augmented education: Are you ready to experiment?
Chengyi Lin looks back on the so far somewhat chequered history of technology in management education but is sanguine about its future.
Read MoreExponential Organisations: Helping students to build the businesses of the future
Francisco Palao Reines describes how business school students are being exposed to a new type of business to match today’s exponential environment, the ‘Exponential Organisation’. People often say that beginners are lucky. I believe this was exactly my case when I launched my first start-up at the age of 19. I was in my…
Read MoreDisrupting the curriculum
Business students should be more knowledgeable about new technologies say, Mukul Kumar and Johan Roos. Business schools need to accelerate how they enable students to partner with engineers and scientists, bring tech-driven innovations to market in responsible ways, and understand the evolving applications of disruptive technologies in society. STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)…
Read MoreRobots and the law
An online international knowledge sharing case study – exchanging UK-South African legal cultures. By Beth Richards-Bray, Alan East, Stephen Hardy and Stephan van der Merwe.
Read MoreFrom A to Z
Reference dictionary Corporate learning for the digital world The global technological revolution is transforming business models and the way we think about management. Is the learning and development community ready to face the changes? By Valery Katkalo, Martin Moehrle, Dmitry Volkov. We live in an era in which digital technologies are integrated into virtually all…
Read MoreIs your business school fit for the world of AI?
The impact of technology, already hugely significant, is about to become even more intense. Prabhu Guptara asks if business schools are ready. In January 2018, I started a research project to understand how business schools are responding to the new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to assess whether our graduates are really being prepared…
Read MoreGold for Experts: developing technology experts as leaders
– SILVER WINNER OF THE 2018 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – How do you combine technical expertise with business acumen to create the best outcomes for customers… and in doing so, develop and retain your top technical talent? The Challenge Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with around 100,000 employees in 73 countries. The…
Read MoreDeveloping world-class students in Peru
Percy Marquina Feldman outlines the innovative approach to using artificial intelligence to enhance the student experience at a business school in Peru Peru is one of Latin America’s top economic performers, classified as an upper-middle economy with a per capita of $US6,150 according to the World Bank Its capital, Lima, is a city where internal and external (such as Venezuelan) migrants look…
Read MoreThe digital revolution in management education
Nowhere is the impact of digital technology more apparent – and important – than executive education custom programmes. Olga Alonso Pelegrín and Sergio Vasquez Bronfman investigate the implications, particularly the use of ‘blended’ teaching One area undergoing a true digital revolution in Executive Education is custom/bespoke programmes, since this is where technology is making a very deep impact in response to…
Read MoreTime for a digital detox?
Peter Thomson points out that our stressful work patterns are not caused by technology but by leaders who have allowed their organisations to develop unhealthy work patterns and are ignoring culture instead of managing it We are living in an era of unprecedented change and transformation. Digitalisation presents businesses with unparalleled opportunities for value creation.…
Read MoreWhat if you had satellite navigation – for everything?
– By Nick Shackleton-Jones – There’s a popular saying What got you here, won’t get you there. Today this is nowhere as true as it is in training. The world of courses, competencies and certification is rapidly evaporating – replaced by a new ecosystem of resources, guidance and ratings. As automation advances it consumes the…
Read MoreThe power of dreams
Building a solar-powered car and racing it on a Belgian racetrack in just 90 days seems a strange task for young students. But, say Manuel Acevedo-Jaramillo, Sara Aguilar-Barrientos and Juan Esteban Escalante, it has had a major influence on the pedagogic approach of one of Colombia’s top universities Building a solar-electric vehicle from scratch in…
Read MoreTime to think again
Creativity needs space and time to flourish, says Dan Pontefract. Being too busy harms this. Too often, it gets lost in status quo thinking. We have to make the time to rethink how we think.
Read MoreThe future is blended
Santiago Iniguez explains why business schools and corporations must accommodate the increasing role of technology in education. Technology, in parallel with developments in cognitive psychology and education sciences, is producing a formidable paradigm shift in the learning process and the mission of educators and, of course, in business schools.
Read MoreDesigning digital learning strategies
Business education has been slow to respond to the disruption (and opportunities) caused by technological innovation. Tony Sheehan provides some guidance on how it should act The past decade has seen “digital disruption” everywhere. Firms such as Uber, Facebook, Google, Airbnb and Netflix have revolutionised their sectors. Business education has been far from immune MOOCs…
Read MoreTraining Tomorrow’s Big Data Analysts
Technologie is becoming ever more deeply interwoven into the fabric of society. Our interactions with the internet and other large systems that support our transport, our shopping activities and much more are generating an avalanche of data, documenting our behaviour at an unprecedented scale. According to computer giant IBM, the world is churning out 2,5…
Read MoreBusiness Schools Face the Future
Globalisation and technological developments are changing the business of business schools and presenting new opportunities to innovate, says Kai Peters. A plethora of challenges are impacting globally on the management education market, including the continuing evolution of online possibilities, the emergence of new providers, the role of for-profits, changes to public funding, a turbulent economy…
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