The Economic Value of Digital Disruption: A Holistic Assessment for CXOs

ISBN-13: 9789811981470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 330 str.

Vijay Kumar

Opis

This book is a holistic impact study, replete with real-world examples, of digital transformation enhancing businesses and influencing managers' thinking. It links economic value with digital disruptions, arguing that these disruptions deliver economic benefits, boost shareholder value, and provide societal value. The central discourse is on the ability of digitization to make the world a better place to live in. The book analyses wealth creation due to digital disruption with a global span. It extensively incorporates anecdotal examples of disruptive digitization across countries, accentuating the impact of major digital disruptions. It is targeted at any professional interested in studying digitization's holistic impact. The book provides a discourse on digital topography to make business students industry-ready. Given the pervasive digital economy and a rapidly evolving business world, the book helps practicing managers better appreciate their digital environments. Management students who not only have to survive in this digital landscape but also thrive and chart out a lucrative career will benefit significantly from the book.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Digital Enablers

-   The Internet

-   Mobile phone

-   Data and Artificial Intelligence

 

Chapter 2. FinTech

-   Digital Banking

-   The world of FinTech

-   Financial inclusion

-   Cashless Economy

-   Cryptocurrency

-   High Frequency Trading

 

Chapter 3. Future of Work

-   Impact of automation on jobs

-   Manufacturing automation

-   Work from Home

-   Gig workers

 

Chapter 4. Platform Economy

-   Preamble

-   Gig Economy

-   Sharing Economy

 

Chapter 5. The promise of 5G

-   The economic contribution

-  Impact of 5G as

-      Enhanced Mobile Broadband

-      Massive IoT

-      Mission Critical Services

 

Chapter 6. Blended Learning

-   Online learning efficacy

-   Blended learning

-   Digital divide

 

Chapter 7. The stranglehold of FAAMA

-  Big Tech-Facebook, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon

-  Stranglehold on advertising

-  The dominance of FAAMA

-          Social media

-          eCommerce

-          Cloud computing

-          Search engine

-          Anti-trust moves

Chapter 8. Digital Hotspots

-   Silicon Valley

-   China

-   India

O autorze

Vijay Kumar is an IT corporate professional turned researcher and academician. He has had a successful 25-year corporate tenure of building and managing world-class technology companies in India. He was the Corporate Product Marketing Manager at Wipro before being the India Center Head of Tektronix Engineering, a subsidiary of Tektronix, USA. Vijay later became Chief Operating Officer of Raffles Software, Singapore, and Chief Executive Officer of Mindteck, a public listed software company promoted by a global investment bank. As Managing Director of Manystreams USA and Managing Director of Citec Finland, he led the formation and growth of these companies in India. He was the President of IP consulting at Bizworth, a boutique consulting company.

During his tenure as the Dean of Management Studies at PES University, Bangalore, the MBA program became the most preferred choice of management study in Karnataka and catapulted PES MBA to being the #1 Business School in Karnataka and # 3 in South India in successive years (2020 and 2021, TOI Business Schools ranking).

He is an IFRS Foundation FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) Credential holder and consults in the area of ESG.

His co-authored book "Global Innovation and Economic Value" (2018) was published by Springer.

Dr. Kumar is an Electronics Engineer with an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA, and has a PhD from IIT Madras.