The document discusses how embracing technology and innovation is important for businesses to stay successful in a fast-changing digital world. It notes that technology opens doors to new business models and opportunities, while also posing cyber security risks that all boardrooms must consider. Several quotes emphasize that technology is a business issue that requires mature skills, and that boards need to be aware of how technology impacts their entire company, not just specific departments. Examples are given of traditionally insular companies like Coal India now seeking new technologies to transform and double production. Challenger banks are also altering business platforms using technology more efficiently. While cyber security risks loom large, boards have taken little action to gain necessary expertise to prepare for the future.
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Embracing Technology is About Innovation
In a fast-changing digital world, the successful businesses will be those that
demonstrate adaptability and embrace innovation. Technology opens the door to new
business models from manufacturing to marketing functions, while cyber security and
the risks around it loom large as major concerns for every boardroom.
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The issue is not just about
having one person on the
board, or one committee,
its more about the whole
board being aware by
one way or another - that
technology is not (merely)
a department in their
company.
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The deployment of
technology in a
company is a business
issue, and it requires
mature skills.
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Even the hitherto insular
mining group Coal India
which has a near
monopoly producing 80%
of Indias coal is thinking
differently for a
technology-enabled world.
Under its new Chairman
Suthirtha Bhattacharya, it is
looking for new global
partners as it seeks
cutting-edge technologies
to double production.
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New entrants in the
banking sector by way
of the so-called
challenger banks are
paving the way to using
technology more
efficiently, and altering
the platform on which
to do the best business.
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While boardrooms are
anxious about the
prospects for cyber
security, they have
taken very little action
to identify the expertise
needed to best prepare
themselves for the
future.
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Author: Dina Medland