The impact of technology on business is there for all to see — ‘born digital’ companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, Uber and Alibaba have built multi-billion dollar business at a never-before-seen speed in the corporate world. In achieving this, they fundamentally disrupted many traditional industries and posed a serious challenge to some of the long-established companies in their field. The success of these companies makes it clear that there is a qualitative difference in the way leaders need to think about this new inflection point in how business and technology are shaping up.
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Exploring The Key Drivers Of Web And Internet Economics At WINE 2017
In less than two days, a galaxy of experts from varied fields ranging from Computer Science to Economics will gather at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India to discuss the one phenomenon that has been a true game-changer of our times – the Internet.
The 13th edition of the Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), scheduled to be held from December 17-20, 2017 in Bangalore, promises to be an excellent interdisciplinary forum to exchange thoughts and ideas and gain insights on the impact of Internet economics.
| Omprakash Subbarao
The Digital Divide Is Real And A Platform Approach Can Bridge The Gap
What is common to the most successful companies in today’s digital era? Whether it is Apple, Facebook, Amazon or Alibaba, they all use a platform strategy to power their business model. Infact, a Harvard Business Review study done earlier in 2017, showed that digital transformation is paying off for those firms that embrace it.
| Arun Sriram
Why Platformation Is The Future – 3 Lessons From Amazon
For the last several months, we at Sonata have been working on our new digital business transformation approach ‘Platformation'. At its core, Platformation is about enabling businesses and organizations to adopt technology backed new business models and drive digital transformation.
| Arun Sriram
Web And Internet Economics- Understanding And Shaping The Impact Of Digital
The 13th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) event held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in December 2017 threw up some interesting discussions around concepts ranging from the scale effects in Web Search, market and auction mechanism design to pricing of resources in the cloud. Keynote speakers at the conference included Vijay Krishna of PennState, Vijay Vazirani of University of California Irvine, Ariel Procaccia of Carnegie Mellon University and Tim Roughgarden of Stanford University.
| Omprakash Subbarao