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Books — Soumitra Dutta



The Bright Stuff

How innovative people and technology can make old businesses new

by Arnoud De Meyer, Soumitra Dutta and Sandeep Srivastava

All industries are changing dramatically. Innovation is now critical for survival. Incumbent leaders are fighting back to retain their positions in the emerging marketplace -- they are becoming innovative. The Bright Stuff lays out the framework and action agenda for Internet-enabled innovation in your business. With this book you can create business models that exploit the true potential of the technologies available. You will learn from detailed research carried out by INSEAD's eLab, looking at how traditional businesses were attacked by more innovative start-ups and how they have fought back. Detailed case studies of GM, Auto-by-Tel, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Wal-Mart, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE and Merrill Lynch give sound evidence of how you can take advantage of The Bright Stuff.

Innovating at the Top

How Global CEOs Drive Innovation for Growth and Profit

Edited by Soumitra Dutta, Roland Berger, Tobias Raffel and Geoffrey Samuels

This book is a collection of eye-opening interviews with CEOs from major international corporations- Nokia, Unilever, Toyota, Bosch are just some of the many included. The CEOs discuss their innovative approaches to new challenges and opportunities in their business. A fascinating insight into the minds of global leaders.

Palgrave Macmillan (November 25, 2008)

Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom

How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World

by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta

The rise of social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo is changing the way we see ourselves, how we interact with each other, how we work and how we do business on a daily basis. Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom explores the powerful forces driving the social networking revolution, the impact of these profound changes, and the far reaching consequences of social networking.

Detailing the way social networks affects both individuals and societies as a whole, the book offers a detailed focus on the ways social networking affects the world of business and work. The generation entering the workforce today - and entering boardrooms everywhere - is fully engaged with social networking and its uses. Rather than feeling threatened and paranoid, today's business leaders need to understand this phenomenon, accept that it won't go away, and embrace its power in the world of business.

Wiley (December 31, 2008)

The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010

ITC for Sustainability

By Soumitra Dutta

The Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005

World Economic Forum Reports

Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, Fiona Paua, editors

The use and application of ICT continues to be an important factor driving economic growth. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with INSEAD and CISCO, is pleased to announce the release of its fourth edition of the annual Global Information Technology Report - a comprehensive tool for measuring the progress of and identifying the obstacles to ICT development in over 100 countries worldwide. The Networked Readiness Index of the Report provides the most comprehensive assessment of how prepared an economy is to capture the benefits of technology to promote economic growth and productivity. This study explicitly considers the roles played by the major stakeholders - individuals, businesses and governments, in relation to three dimensions: the environment for the development and use of ICT, the readiness of stakeholders to leverage the potential of ICT, and the degree of usage of ICT. The selection of essays, detailed country profiles for 104 economies and data tables on over 70 different ICT indicators presented in the Report provide a useful guide for the design and structure of policy measures for the key ICT stakeholders, individuals, businesses, and governments, in order to capture the benefits of ICT.

The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe

Soumitra Dutta, Arnoud De Meyer, Amit Jain, Gerard Richter, editors

Europe enlarged its boundaries in 2004 with the accession of ten new member states to the European Union. The creation of an effective information society is seen as critical to the global competitiveness of Europe. Based upon detailed data collection and rigorous analysis, the book presents a benchmarking study of the 10 new member states and 3 candidate countries of the European Union as compared to the 15 incumbent countries with respect to the development of their information societies. Using a framework based on the Europe 2005 benchmarking framework, the 28 EU members and candidate countries are ranked according to their level of information society development, and then classified into 4 categories. The results presented in this book are of importance to all managers and companies doing business in the IT sector in the European Union.