This Advisor offers a refresher on three new rules that can help leaders identify, assess, and manage digital era risk.

Generative AI is already dramatically influencing the commercial use of AI. And its fast, widespread adoption holds far-reaching technological, social, and business implications — including for the democratization of AI.

Explore what is likely to transpire in the EV market in the next ten years, what it will take for legacy and emerging automakers making the transition to EVs to survive, and the many risks these manufacturers are facing.

This Advisor presents advice on how to "lead with intent" in the remote/hybrid workplace, focusing on eight key elements of effective leadership.

This Advisor series examines the new technology-enabled innovations that World Cup 2022 embraced. Here in Part II, we examine technologies that transformed the World Cup experience, including access and navigation for disabled spectators, venue enhancements, and advanced live streaming.

Join Prof. Noah Barsky and other top executives for a short virtual discussion, hosted by Tom Teixeira, on how you can rewire organizational thinking and mindsets to address your top risks.

In Part III of this Advisor series on VR applications in healthcare and medicine, we examine developments involving digital humans.

The Making SMARTER Decisions with Data framework is a collaborative data-informed decision-making approach that incorporates tangible business value, unknown and unknowable data, intuition, human emotions, actionable insights, and meaning-making. It is particularly useful in uncertain, fast-changing, turbulent times — our business climate for the foreseeable future.

In this Advisor, we explore some of the tech innovations transforming World Cup 2022, including: semiautomated offside/goal line technology, a new high-tech ball, and AI/big data applications that are changing the sport. We also briefly examine some of the failures and threats these technologies can introduce.

Decision making in complexity is not difficult, just different. Old tools based on searching for certainty and finding the best answer must give way to a new set of tools based around iteration, experimentation, and adaption. Leaders need to expand their decision-making toolbox. They need tools that allow for a rapid situation assessment so they can make a decision (right or wrong), then adapt that decision as it plays out in the real world.

This Advisor series looks at the use of VR in healthcare and medicine. Here in Part II, we examine developments involving the use of VR for treatment, therapy, and rehabilitation such as to help patients manage diseases and injuries, and reduce patient anxiety before and after surgery.

Complex times require leaders with more than just knowledge, insight, and skills; they need the temperament to remain calm and collected as they apply analysis and judgment to high-stakes decisions. This Advisor reviews the ingredients of good decisions and explores how decision making can go wrong.

 

 

DAOs and Token-Driven Organizations: Promises vs. Reality

December 7, 2022 | 10am-11am EST | 16 CET (see your local time)

Johannes Rude Jensen and Omri Ross share their vision of Web3 social media and how it can enable frictionless mobility between online communities on social media platforms. In contrast to legacy social media channels designed for content monetization by platform owners, content creators on Web3 social media maintain ownership and monetization rights, paving the way for commercial incentives and shifting bargaining power to content producers. The authors portray their vision of how Web3 social media users will be empowered to move between platforms of their choice while maintaining their network of followers and without losing their social stature and virtual assets.

This case study is based on an interview with Elliott Waxman about his co-founding of ClimateDAO, an organization that invited private investors to collaborate on decarbonizing efforts. ClimateDAO was born from a crowdsourcing campaign that generated $80,000 worth of cryptocurrency. However, challenges associated with the DAO structure led to complications that soon required a substantial restructuring.

Diego Alvarez, Pietro Cortellini, and Emily Munchak invite readers to look at DAOs through the lens of the music industry. The authors investigated three DAOs: Audius, BitSong, and MODA DAO, which aim to disrupt their market. The study differentiates between DAOs driven primarily by economic incentives from those focused on social incentives and highlights five dimensions that characterize all DAOs: purpose, community, technology, tokens, and governance. The study focuses on DAOs from the music industry, but the authors offer generalized insights for other industries.

Based on broad domain knowledge and first-hand experiences with launching DAOs, Thomas Belkowski and Lukas Falcke share their insights into holistic DAO governance. They provide five guidelines for prospective DAO founders on how to develop governance mechanisms that can enable thriving DAOs. Although these general guidelines apply to a range of DAOs, the authors warn against applying a one-size-fits-all approach to DAO governance.

Lucy Frew highlights the current predicaments of DAOs from a legal and regulatory perspective. The article explores the challenges that DAOs present to the legal structures of organizations as we know them. Overall, DAOs aim at decentralization, but the degree of decentralization varies over time and has critical implications for the accountability of its members: the token holders. Frew discusses the existing regulatory landscape of DAOs and looks at the circumstances under which a DAO might benefit from seeking legal status.

Henrik Axelsen and Omri Ross provide an understanding of the challenges associated with regulating DAOs and the opportunity (if not necessity) of a transformational shift in the existing regulatory paradigm. The characteristics of DAOs, including fluid membership and locational independence as well as the financial resources implicated, raise the question of who, what, and where to regulate. The precedent of a DAO sanctioned for enabling money laundering highlights the urgency of initiating this discourse. With traditional finance as a reference, the authors discuss whether activity- or entity-based regulation is more appropriate and what current regulatory decisions mean for the DAOs landscape future.

This issue of Amplify explores the trends, innovations, technologies, applications, opportunities, challenges, and novel research reshaping token-driven organizations. Understanding how digital tokens govern work and organizing in virtual organizations can unravel important questions for leaders and managers of traditional organizations.

This Advisor explains how security technology solutions can be used to address the continuing threat of cyberattacks.

If we think about hierarchies, we will see their effects and try to improve them. If we instead think about value streams, we will see the effects of value streams and try to improve them. Hierarchies are a structure we use to organize our people; value streams represent the actual work we’re doing. Let’s explore the difference that shifting our focus creates.

Dig into business cases to gain clarity and a new depth of understanding of the nuanced issues the C-Suite faces as they navigate the business opportunities and threats of blockchain-based innovations.

Dig into business cases to gain clarity and a new depth of understanding of the nuanced issues the C-Suite faces as they navigate the business opportunities and threats of blockchain-based innovations.

 

 

High Risk, High Stakes Decision Making in Turbulent Times

November 15, 2022 | 4pm-5pm EST | 1pm-2pm PST (see your local time)