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A Journal with an Impact
One of the priority issues facing the different management disciplines today is the critical question of research impact. We are confronted with the question of how to translate the immense potential of knowledge produced by the scientific community into management practices that are useful for transforming organizations and their processes to create value and generate welfare for society. In ...
Successful Business Cases: AI Implementation Best Practices
Through the analysis of successful business cases, the article aims to identify key steps and best practices in AI implementation in order to develop a set of principles that can guide managers in business practice. To optimize business operations and transform AI into a driver of innovation and value, specific development steps must be followed: from establishing a solid strategic and organizational ...
From Theory to Practice: Critical Factors in AI Implementation
By investigating major trends in the literature on artificial intelligence, this article provides an up-to-date, structured overview of AI applications in the business context. In particular, it explores the most influential factors in AI implementation, divided into five main areas: drivers for adoption, skills needed for implementation, risks and challenges, key business processes where AI is applied, ...
The Reality Beyond the Hype: Three-Dimensional Applicability
DEVO Lab's HIT Radar framework helps organizations identify and evaluate use cases where artificial intelligence (AI) can concretely improve business processes and create sustainable value. In line with the post-digital approach, it provides a balanced perspective on the potential of AI, distinguishing opportunities for real impact from technological hype. Through a structured analysis of selected ...
In search of impact
In order to translate the vast body of scientific knowledge into practices that transform organizations and processes to create value for business and wellbeing for society, a dialog between academic research and management practice is essential. Although the impact of research has traditionally been measured in academic terms, it is now also being considered from a socioeconomic perspective, assessed ...
Creating Value with AI: Post-Digital Business Strategies
Despite the optimism and the rush to create increasingly powerful AI models, the overall benefits of artificial intelligence remain unclear outside of large tech companies. In many realities, the tangible effects are not evident, despite the wide accessibility of available solutions. This is because, as a general-purpose technology, AI takes time to manifest its full transformative potential. In this ...
High Uncontrollability: Goals, Performance, and Incentives
The Covid-19 pandemic represented an important turning point for companies, offering managers a new opportunity to experiment with management solutions aimed at facing situations of high uncertainty and unpredictability. Among the practices adopted, a particularly important role is occupied by those relating to the design and use of systems for defining goals and evaluating performance, that directly ...
Positive Effects on Performance, Both Direct and Indirect
We decided to explore the role of governance for the sustainable growth of Italian businesses in various forms, thanks to the database of our Business Observatory, which encompasses the population of medium and large enterprises under family, state, coalition, and financial control (approximately 6,150) with a turnover exceeding 50 million euros (Figure 1). Figure 1 The ownership structure of the ...
Unveiling the Nature of Big Data Analytics Capabilities. Trust and the Moderating Role of Environmental Hostility
Introduction Big data represents a disruptive paradigm shift for businesses (Chauhan et al., 2022; George et al., 2014; Ekbia et al., 2015). According to McAfee and Brynjolfsson (2012), firms that anchor their activities on data show productivity rates and profitability that are 5% or 6% higher than their counterparts. Data-driven firms are business organizations that build tools, abilities, and culture ...