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Unsupervised
How a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality—and why you must act and adapt Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. It explains why we as business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, educators, lawmakers, investors or users and all responsible citizens must act now to in...
My Trip to the Start-Up World
Can you teach entrepreneurship? Do you dare to dream and scale your venture beyond your home country? How do you source deals—through warm introductions or AI? Can open innovation be sincere or is it bound to be “innovation theater”? This book is a collection of Voice of FinTech podcast highlights and additional resources, explained and woven together by Rudolf Falat. Voice of FinTech podcast was founded by Rudolf Falat, senior corporate finance professional with extensive experience in financial services, based in Zurich, Switzerland, in June 2019. FinTech and technology enthusiast, start-up mentor, adviser, business angel, and executive education coach. It’s a weekly interview with...
The Artificial Intelligence Imperative
This practical guide to artificial intelligence and its impact on industry dispels common myths and calls for cross-sector, collaborative leadership for the responsible design and embedding of AI in the daily work of businesses and oversight by boards. Artificial intelligence has arrived, and it's coming to a business near you. The disruptive impact of AI on the global economy—from health care to energy, financial services to agriculture, and defense to media—is enormous. Technology literacy is a must for traditional businesses, their boards, policy makers, and governance professionals. This is the first book to explain where AI comes from, why it has emerged as one of the most powerful ...
Gloom to Boom
Leaders – whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector – take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level. Expanding upon the well-known "ESG" risks, this book explains the key nonfinancial (environmental, social, governance and technological or ESGT) risks. For many leaders (including board members), taking risk without knowledge or preparation can lead to organizational crisis, scandal and value destruction. For those who are prepared, resilience follows and so does the ability to transform ESGT risk into opportunity and value for stakeholders. In this book, global governance, risk, ethics and cyber strategist, author and board member, Andrea Bonime...
FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime. Focusing on crypto-assets, InsureTech and the digitisation of financial dispute resolution, the book examines the strategic and ethical aspects of incorporating AI into the financial sector. The volume adopts a comparative legal approach to: critically evaluate the strategic and ethical benefits and challenges of AI in the financial sector; critically analyse the role, values and challenges of FinTech in society; make recommendations on protecting vulnerable customers without restricting financia...
Online Gravity
The Freakonomics of the digital economy, offering fascinating insights into the new rules that are reshaping the online worlds of business, education, and leisure. Are you concerned that technology and the web are moving too quickly for you to keep up? Are you worried about the future of your career in the face of an increasingly global and competitive workforce? We all worry about change. And the changes being brought about by unseen forces in the global economy are profound. Do you know someone who has lost their job in the last five years working in IT, media, finance, or retail? These industries and many others are already feeling the pinch of online gravity: the invisible forces of the ...
Fast Strategy
In today's constantly shifting business environment, being able to adapt to change is the key to survival for many companies. Learn how you can thrive on change and ensure your company remains on top. Demonstrates how you can use change and disruption, which is unavoidable in today's business environment to your own business advantage. This is a perennial subject area, every executive in every company needs to know how to maintain their own and their company's business edge. Based on interviews with 130 executives from leading global companies such as Nokia, IBM and Accenture. This book is unique as it shows both the failures as well as the successes of the world's leading global companies a...
Bank 4.0
In the final book in the digital “BANK” series, Brett King tackles the topic of whether banks have a future at all in the emerging, technology embedded world of the 21st century. In 30-50 years when cash is gone, cards are gone and all vestiges of the traditional banking system have been re-engineered in real-time, what exactly will a bank look like? How will we reimagine a bank account, identity, value, assets, investments? hen stepping back from this vision of the future, King and his cadre of ‘disruptors’ and Fintech mafia chronicle the foundations of this new banking ecosystem today. From selfie-pay in China, blockchain in Africa, self-driving cars with their own bank accounts and augmented reality tech that informs the future design of banking systems, this proves once and for all that we’re not in Wall Street anymore Toto. Bank 4.0 is what banking will become. The Russian edition of Bank 4.0 was recognised as the best book by a foreign author (2019) at the Business Book of the Year Award organised by PwC Russia.
Framers
A Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Wonderfully stimulating... will teach you to see around corners' - TIM HARFORD 'A paean to cognitive agility and the elasticity of the imagination' - ECOMOMIST 'Captivating... will transform the way you think' MARISSA KING, PROFESSOR AT YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT The power of mental models to make better decisions We're often told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are good at decisions precisely because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don't depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That's framing. It's a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future -- to meet this historical moment. Framers shows how.
