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Smart City

Essentials for City Leaders

By Michael R. Wade, Michel Peter Pfäffli, Raphaël Rollier, Blaise Vonlanthen, Remy Assir and Andrew Tarling

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October 2016

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Article Digital Technology Management

Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a h...

By Yogesh K. Dwivedi Nir Kshetri Laurie Hughes ... Michael R. Wade and et al.
in International Journal of Information Management August 2023, vol. 71, 102642, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642

Article Sustainability Strategy

Companies must step up action to cut emissions if a climate catastrophe is to be averted, and progress will accelerate as they realize that signifi...

By Knut Bjarne Haanaes
in I by IMD 31 May 2023

Leading decarbonization: Business has a crucial role to play in tackling climate change

Article Sustainability Human Resources

How Judith Wiese, Chief People & Sustainability Officer at Siemens, effectively combines two roles at the German technology and industrial group.

By Julia Binder
in I by IMD 30 May 2023

Putting people at the heart of the sustainable business transformation

Case Study Operations Strategy

In 2022, Apple lost US$1.5 billion in Black Friday sales due to iPhone supply constraints. One in three retail stores across the US and Europe expe...

By Carlos Cordon and Nick Georgiev
Case reference: IMD-7-2451 ©2023

Article Supply Chain Strategy Sustainability

To properly address supply-chain risk, multinationals should be doing due diligence on every supplier and cascading action down through the value c...

By Carlos Cordon
in I by IMD 24 May 2023

How to measure and strengthen sustainability along the supply chain

Article Sustainability

A new global deal on nature has raised ambitions on tackling biodiversity loss, and companies must stand ready to help build a nature-positive worl...

By Eva Zabey
in I by IMD 22 May 2023

Nature and biodiversity are quickly moving up the corporate agenda: Here’s why every company should pay attention

Article Finance Strategy

How did Credit Suisse get into such a sorry mess, and what steps can Swiss banks take now to win back trust?

By Peter Nathanial Ludo Van der Heyden and Salvatore Cantale
in I by IMD 19 May 2023

Article Technology Management Strategy Innovation

Professor Mike Wade explains why we're in an "autonomous driving winter", and AI authority Amit Joshi, tells us why the last stage of self-driving ...

By Michael R. Wade and Amit M. Joshi
in I by IMD 18 May 2023

Article Strategy Technology Management Innovation

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), though a recent development, is already transforming industries

By Michael D. Watkins and Ralf Weissbeck
in I by IMD 18 May 2023

Implementing generative AI: A strategic guide to overcoming the challenges

Article Supply Chain Innovation Technology Management

Everyone is talking about Large Language Models (LLM), such asChatGPT, and the supply-chain community is no different. But beyond amusing posts and...

By Ralf W. Seifert and Richard Markoff
in I by IMD 17 May 2023