The democratic context of policymaking is central to this book. It is about policy debates and stakeholders in democracies. And while all countries share some important common challenges in problem-solving and effective governance, this book has little to say directly about policymaking in authoritarian political systems and militarised autocracies. This book offers the first overview … Continue reading “Wicked Problems in Public Policy”
Azeem Azhar, a well-known technology analyst and host of the Exponential View podcast, introduces a paradigm-shifting new framework for comprehending how technology evolves at an exponential pace and why it fundamentally transforms the world. He proposes a set of policy measures for preventing our societies from fragmenting, weakening, or perhaps collapsing as a result of … Continue reading “The Exponential Age”
In Value(s), one of the great economic thinkers of our time examines how economic value and social values became blurred, how we went from living in a market economy to a market society, and how to rethink and rebuild before it’s too late. The book will help arm the best in business, finance and government, and … Continue reading “Value(s) by Mark Carney”
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight. As it explores this new capitalism’s impact on society, politics, business, and technology, it exposes the struggles that will decide … Continue reading “Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff”
AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear: Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how “collisions” between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog … Continue reading “Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani”
Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a ‘good’ service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work … Continue reading “Good Services by Lou Downe”
The publication builds upon established international standards for systems and software engineering and infuses systems security engineering methods, practices, and techniques into those systems and software engineering activities. The objective is to address security issues from a stakeholder protection needs, concerns, and requirements perspective with appropriate fidelity and rigor throughout the system life cycle. Download … Continue reading “Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems”
A metaverse is a persistent virtual reality space. Neal Stephenson was the first to coin the term metaverse in his 1992 science fiction novel Snowcrash. Consider it a combination of virtual reality and a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). A metaverse can be defined as a virtual world where multiple users can exist simultaneously and interact … Continue reading “How should governments prepare for the metaverse?”
We are seeing several government initiatives to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in recent months. The European Commission issued a groundbreaking proposal for the regulation of AI in April this year. Last November, the White House issued a memorandum providing “Guidance for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Applications.” The OECD’s AI Policy Observatory lists over 600 policy initiatives from more than … Continue reading “Can artificial intelligence be regulated? Perhaps not.”
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks with Benedict Evans, an independent technology analyst. Evans covers topics including the following: The generational shifts in technology that occur every 15 years or so What characterizes a “universal product” Why Web3 generates the most polarizing views among senior tech people Whether tech … Continue reading “Forward Thinking on tech and the unpredictability of prediction with Benedict Evans | McKinsey”