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Michael R. Wade
Michael R Wade is TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital at IMD and Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. He directs a number of open programs such as Leading Digital and AI Transformation, Digital Transformation for Boards, Leading Digital Execution, Digital Transformation Sprint, Digital Transformation in Practice, Business Creativity and Innovation Sprint. He has written 10 books, hundreds of articles, and hosted popular management podcasts including Mike & Amit Talk Tech. In 2021, he was inducted into the Swiss Digital Shapers Hall of Fame.
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What every start-up can learn from Frank Gehry, the extreme experimenter
Too much focus on validation can stifle flexibility and open-mindedness – qualities essential for innovation. The world-renowned architect, now in his nineties, is a case study in how to do things differently....
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The four components of digital corporate responsibility
Corporate digital responsibility (CDR) is a set of practices and behaviors that help an organization to use data and digital technologies in a way that is socially, economically, technically, and environmentally responsible....
Corporate Digital Responsibility: the next ethical frontier
There have been two megatrends that have dominated the last decade: digitization and ethics and sustainability, but so far there have been few points of intersection between these two trends, largely because...
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Five questions to help you choose the right digital governance model
Choosing a digital governance model is a critical part of a digital transformation strategy. Research has indicated that governance is a key driver of financial performance for businesses that have undergone successful...
Digital transformation: how to bridge the gap between knowledge and action
There is no hiding from digital disruption, and the pandemic definitely accelerated the process for many organizations. But while companies know they need to transform, they are really struggling with how to...
CEOs impact performance
22 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • 
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CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes....
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
15 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over the past twenty years, a simple five word phrase has become one of the most popular ideas in business....
AI is coming for your job (part 2)
8 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
In the past, when machines replaced human workers we created new jobs elsewhere and avoided mass unemployment....
AI is coming for your job (part 1)
1 April 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
From the Terminator movies to the musings of Elon Musk, the world is full of worrying predictions about what will happen to us when machines become super-intelligent....
Entrepreneurs like to gamble
31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...
Chinese companies don’t innovate
25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
Leaders are born, not made
18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....
