Levi Groner Business Development Executive – VAT IT Business travel is a $1.4 trillion sector that spans the globe and impacts every company, but with recent figures from reclaim giant VAT IT, revealing that there is $20 billion in unclaimed VATax around the world, it’s clear that there’s a very real issue in the cross-border…
Simon Sear Chief Innovation Officer – BJSS Innovation Labs You can’t escape the Artificial Intelligence (AI) hype. It’s everywhere and everyone is talking about it, even President Putin recently stated that ‘the country that leads in AI will be the ruler of the World’. McKinsey predicts that AI will create more than $5 trillion of…
Kimberley Peretti Partner and Co-chair, Alston & Bird’s Cyber-security Preparedness and Response team and National Security and Digital Crimes Team Working With The Government After a Data Breach The scope and frequency of security incidents continue to grow, as does the media and government attention to breaches. Different arms of the government continue…
Identifying the critical challenges global business leaders and their organizations will face remains important and complex. How are organizations reinventing themselves for the digital age and how are leaders managing digital transformation? For 18 years, The Conference Board (TCB) has surveyed CEOs from around the world to better understand the challenges executives face and the…
The Triple Overload Problem – And What To Do About It This article was kindly provided to BAB by Anthony Bartlett, Senior Copywriter, Evernote. You can find out more about Evernote here. “Where did the time go?” “Will you look at the time!?” “Time flies when you’re having fun.” If you have the alarming feeling…
How, when and where senior-level financial executives invest resources in blockchain solutions is becoming a high priority as stakeholders begin to debate the technology’s application against modern accounting and financial reporting. The AICPA held a blockchain symposium with leaders announcing that the technology will “will impact all areas of practice” and new industry organizations like…
Robert H. Brown Associate Vice President, Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant Technology Solutions The Future of Data Privacy is Critical to the Future of Business Innovation With every click and like and swipe we make online, our interests, preferences and intent are revealed. As The Police sang in the ‘80s, “every move…
Nick New Managing Director, North America, AVADO The Digital Trends That Matter Now: Augmented Reality SO WHAT IS AUGMENTED REALITY? Maybe you’ve seen one of 400 million Snapchat stories created every day, with real-time video filters turning selfies into rainbow breathing unicorns? Or perhaps you’re one of 800 million people who downloaded Pokémon-Go to hunt down…
Or, what truly motivates people at work? This paper describes the results of a unique research project into what motivates people at work. Using the Team-to-Tribe (T3 ) model for assessing high-performing teams (HPTs), this research examined the degree to which membership of a HPT influences such motivation and effort, in relative comparison to…
Interview with Bill Thomas Bill Thomas Chairman, KPMG What’s the most interesting thing about you that we can’t Google? When I was in Vancouver I used to play in a band. Interestingly enough, I played the keyboards when I was a kid growing up, but for the longest time I never had the opportunity to…