Frontiers Fall 2016

Communication has changed thanks to social media — with long-term impacts on how companies work.

Digital assistants are taking over repetitive tasks, leaving managers free to manage.

AI’s value for managers lies in its ability to predict equipment failures and assess human emotions.

Digital transformation has been positive in many ways, but some long-term trends are troubling.

Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.

As technology evolves, managers and organizations will need new skill sets.

Digital transformation is just a step in the journey toward a cognitive technology revolution.

While humans may be ahead of computers in the ability to create strategy today, we shouldn’t be complacent about our dominance.

The power and responsibility of companies to help build a thriving, resilient world has never been greater.

No, software will not render managers obsolete, but you will need to be more skilled than ever before.

Behind every piece of code that drives our decisions is a human making human judgments about what matters and what does not.

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.

We are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in how organizations collect, analyze, and act on knowledge.

Algorithms are fundamentally redefining the roles of worker and manager.