Business Issues and Trends

 Written assignment – three parts:

• Part A – Resource Summary
• Part B – Short Answer Questions
• Part C – Scenario-based Questions

2500 + words

  

• Related readings:
  • Tony Qui, “How Can You Aspire to Lead in the Digital Economy?” Ernst & Young, January 30, 2018, https://www.ey.com/en_gl/transactions/how-can-you-aspire-to-lead-in-the-digital-economy
  • Carmelo Cennamo and Juan Santaló, “How to Avoid Platform Traps,” Sloan Management Review, 57/1 (Fall 2015): 12-17; Available here: https ://sloanreview.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/a56d3fe8d8. pdf
  • Thomas H. Davenport and George Westerman, “Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail,” Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, March 9, 2018, Available here: https://hbr.org/2018/03/why-so-many-high-profile-digital-transformations-fail
  • Porter, M. E., & Heppelmann, J. E. (2014). How smart, connected products are transforming competition. Harvard business review, 92(11), 64-88. Available here: https://hbr.org/2014/11/ how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-competition
• Allen, C., Metternicht, G., & Wiedmann, T. (2018). Initial progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A review of evidence from countries. Sustainability Science, 13(5), 1453-1467. Available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0572-3
• Patrick Schröder (2020). How the Circular Economy Can Help Realize the Sustainable Development Goals. Circular Economy Earth, Chatham House. Available here: https://circulareconomy.earth/publications/the-circular-economy-and-the-sdgs
• Circle Economy (2019). “The Circularity Gap Report 2019,”, Switzerland. Available here: https://www.circularity-gap.world/
• Rodriguez-Anton, J. M., Rubio-Andrada, L., Celemín-Pedroche, M. S., & Alonso-Almeida, M. D. M. (2019). Analysis of the relations between circular economy and sustainable development goals. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 26(8), 708-720. Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13504509.2019.1666754

 

• Westerman, G., Bonnet, D., & McAfee, A. (2018). The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation. MIT Sloan Management Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology [электронный ресурс]: Available here: https://sloanreview. mit. edu/article/the-nine-elements-of-digital-transformation
• Tabrizi, B., Lam, E., Girard, K., & Irvin, V. (2019). Digital transformation is not about technology. Harvard Business Review, 13(March), 1-6. Available here: https://hbr.org/2019/03/digital-transformation-is-not-about-technologyWade, M., & Shan, J. (2020). Covid-19 Has Accelerated Digital Transformation, but May Have Made it Harder Not Easier. MIS Quarterly Executive, 19(3). Available here: https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol19/iss3/7/Anthony, S D, Trotter, A & Schwartz, E I (2019) The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade. Harvard Business Review. Available here: https://hbr.org/2019/09/ the-top-20-business-transformations-of-the-last-decadeCatlin, T., Lorenz, J.T., Sternfels, B., & Willmott, P (2017). A roadmap for a digital transformation. McKinsey & Company. Available here: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/a-roadmap-for-a-digital-transformation

 

• Hawken, Paul, Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins (1999). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York: Little, Brown & Company. Available here: http://www.reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1.8-natural-capital-hbr-roadmap.pdf
• Hawken, P., Lovins, A. B., & Lovins, L. H. (2013). Natural capitalism: The next industrial revolution. Routledge. Available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315065755/natural-capitalism-paul-hawken-amory-lovins-hunter-lovins
• Feola, G. (2020). Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn?. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35, 241-250. Available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422418301576
• ABC Radio National (2000). Natural capitalism – Late Night Live with Amory Lovins. Available here: https://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/natcap/