Transforming Business: Big Data, Mobility, and Globalization - Softcover

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Tectonic motion is occurring in the workplace.

How will it affect you?

Mobility. The cloud. Data analytics. Collaboration. These and related forces are creating a seismic shift felt at all levels of the organization.

An intense and in-depth study conducted across the United States and China reveals the effects of these influences through the eyes of knowledge workers, functional leaders, business decision-makers, and upcoming graduates from prominent universities. The results, together with commentary from leading researchers and analysts, are presented and plumbed in this detailed volume. Informative, enlightening, and possibly prophetic, this analysis illuminates a blueprint for the business model of tomorrow.

• Learn how new technology trends?including mobility, cloud, big data, and collaboration? are fundamentally changing the way work is conducted and how company leadership can tap into these trends to affect positive cultural reform
• Discover how the introduction of new technologies and the emergence of new business models are shifting traditional organizational roles?including HR, Marketing, Finance, and IT
• Hear from the next-generation of top talent, represented by college students at the top universities, and learn how they view their future workplace environment and how technology can become a meaningful magnet for recruitment and retention, thereby becoming an essential ingredient to a firm's sustainable competitive advantage
• Explore how the integration of technology into the workplace differs between the United States and China and the implications to the global marketplace

What emerges is an evolved role for company leadership, one of significant strategic value as cultural stewards capable of generating sustainable advantage for their companies in the most competitive market witnessed in decades.