Phantom Ex Machina

Part1 Introduction.- 1 Digital Disruption: Why It Matters?.- Part2 BUSINESS STRATEGY.- 2 Enterprise Impact of Social Media: Some Case Studies.- 3 Cultural Communication Patterns - A way how management and engineering can improve their mutual understanding significantly.- 4 Technology and Disruption: How the New Customer Relationship Influences the Corporate Strategy.- 5 The future dominance of platform business models as a concept for digital disruption<.- 9 Rising customer and societal value with 'diglectrical' innovations: New perspectives for the automotive industry?.- Part4 Higher Education.- 10 Education, Technology and Simple Innovation.- 11 Learning Assessment Must Change in a World of "Digital Cheats".- 12 Digital Disruption: A Transformation in Graduate Management Education.- Part5 Services.- 13 The influence of socially orientated growth of virtual teams: A Delphi study.- 14 Digital Disruptions and the Emergence of Virtual Think Tanks.- Part6 Conclusion.- 15 Embracing Disruptions and the Unknown Future.

Anshuman Khare is Professor in Operations Management at Athabasca University, Canada. He joined Athabasca University in January 2000. He is a MBA and PhD from Allahabad University, India. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and has completed two post-doctoral terms at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. He is also a former Monbusho Scholar, having completed a postdoctoral assignment at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He has published a number of books and research papers on a wide range of topics. His research focuses on environmental regulation impacts on industry, just-in-time manufacturing, supply chain management, sustainability, cities and climate change, etc. Anshuman serves on Athabasca University General Faculties Council representing Faculty of Business Faculty Council as a full-time academic faculty member. As his commitment to community Anshuman also serves on the Board of Directors of Northern Alberta Business Incubator (NABI) and is the Vice Chair of Smart Cities Masterplan Steering Committee for the City of St. Albert. He is on the Steering Committee of Alexander von Humboldt Cities and Climate Change Network of research scientists and on the executive of Humboldt Association of Canada. Anshuman has recently agreed to serve as Associate Editor of "International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education" published by Emerald.

Rod Schatz is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur with an extreme focus on digital disruption through Information Systems by delivering business value to organizations through the use of systems in unique and creative ways. Rod holds a Master of Science degree in geospatial technologies from the University of Alberta. During his graduate studies, he focused on the application of location-allocation studies with geospatial technologies (GIS). Rod has presented over 20 conference presentations dealing with the applied use of geospatial technologies to Municipalities for infrastructure

"One comes away from this book with a decent appreciation for how the increasing presence of the Internet and digital technologies will bring disruption to various industries. Copious references are provided for each chapter for those wishing to explore further. Especially useful are the case studies of particular companies showing how disruption occurred or how the companies integrated digital technologies to their advantage." (Computing Reviews, September, 2017)