The science fiction of yesterday seems like it’s becoming science fact today. Fans of Netflix’s Stranger Things will recall the Shadow Monster, who intended to kill everything and everyone on Earth by spreading a virus via humans. Sadly, as the ever-increasing incidents of pandemics over the last decade have shown, narratives such as the Shadow […]

Girish Pai - April 21, 2020 - 1541 views

The success of businesses the world over pivots around cash flow. Cash moves into and out of the business, which supports the movement of products across the supply chain, and eventually into consumers’ hands. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed not only our basic understanding of Business 101 but also Life 101, from commuting to our […]

Euan Davis - April 20, 2020 - 542 views

Crises can bring out the best in people, and the coronavirus is no exception. The level of international collaboration triggered by COVID-19 has transcended baseline expectations and historical precedent.   A raft of public-private alliances between governments, regulators, healthcare providers, scientists, technologists and businesses reveal the global community coming together like never before, ameliorating the […]

Prem Balasubramanian - April 17, 2020 - 2788 views

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned typical consumer behavior inside out. We order groceries online and take out from restaurants rather than eating in. Retailers offer online ordering with no-contact pickup. Students take online classes at the kitchen table. All of these are stark reminders that digital business is now a requirement, not a choice. The […]

If “wet markets” in Wuhan, China, played an early role in the spread of COVID-19, as is widely believed, the coronavirus pandemic has plenty of company: SARS, MERS, Ebola and other diseases also migrated from animals to humans. It’s impossible to overstate the role of the world’s food supply in the suppression or transmission of […]

Prasad Satyavolu - April 15, 2020 - 1093 views

Have we swapped physical traffic jams for digital pileups? Urban congestion has been an issue in the U.S. for decades, and as millions now work, learn and play at home in an effort to socially distance, our roads are finally free-flowing again. However, the traffic has not disappeared. It has digitized. Welcome to the new […]

William Shea - April 14, 2020 - 831 views

Delivering more care through tablets, laptops and mobile phones, whether at home or in another lower cost setting, could help us prevent the next pandemic. For much of the last decade, we’ve envisioned on-demand, “anywhere” delivery of healthcare via a consumer-to business (C2B) platform. The consumer and industry responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are accelerating […]

Raji Chandrasekaran - April 9, 2020 - 1235 views

Digital business change can be vexing to C-level executives, even in ordinary times. Amid a worldwide crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, what was once considered somewhat complex is exponentially more challenging as unforeseen issues surface. For starters, there are semantic issues. Many senior leaders dislike the word “digital” because it’s often misused (i.e., all […]

Mariesa Coughanour - April 6, 2020 - 2554 views

Disruption is nothing new to the tech world. We’re used to discovering new ways of using technology to solve problems. But even with our love for challenging the status quo, COVID-19 has disrupted the business world in ways many of us never anticipated. With most of the world unexpectedly working and studying from home (or […]

Brian Williams - April 3, 2020 - 1149 views

COVID-19 is upending life as we know it. The potential effect of this viral disease on mortality and public health, as well as the lasting socioeconomic impact of the crisis, is unfathomable. To mitigate the wide-scale impact of this growing pandemic, our hopes are trained on a vaccine, prophylactic or curative, and the life sciences […]