Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: ESSEC Business School    Vienna University of Economics and Business    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

Technology acceptance research tells us that user evaluations (i.e. beliefs, perceptions and attitudes) strongly influence rates of adoption and diffusion. The problem for companies that develop and sell new technologies…

Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: IMD    ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

In many organizations, IT is managed via a Chief Information Officer (CIO), who is given a budget and mandate and simply left to ‘get on with it!’ This may be…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Northwestern University    University of Texas, Austin    Stanford University   

The ‘lure of the virtual’ has led many organizations to believe that one day not too far away, we will be able to accomplish with computers what has historically only…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: eBay Research Labs    University of Chicago Booth School of Business    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

Traditional advertising has always been one of the largest expenditures for organizations; take Procter & Gamble for example, which reportedly spent just under $2.95 billion on advertising in 2011 alone.…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Crowdsourcing is an expression that describes the act of taking a task once performed by an internal employee or team, and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: Maastricht School of Management    Delft University of Technology   

Buying integrated services is now the dominant ‘modus operandi’ for clients in IT outsourcing arrangements. But relatively little is known about how integrated services are co-ordinated and implemented by providers.…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business    University of Illinois College of Business    University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management    IE Business School   

Investments in IT account for a large proportion of corporate discretionary spend and leaders need to understand the likely impact of such investments before allocating resources to it. The amount…

Idea posted: August 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris    NUS Business School   

New technologies and the digitization of the economy have extended the use of offshore outsourcing beyond manufacturing to services. India, which has its own ‘Silicon Valley’ in Bangalore, has become…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

The type and amount of information collected by organizations today is on a scale never seen before. This explosion in the volume of data received through sources such as social…