Information Services and Operations Research Community Seminar – Professor Katrina Michael

Title: Emerging Technology as a Catalyst for Business Transformation

Date: 8 April 2024

Time: 12:00-13:15

Zoom: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/86177279554?pwd=WG9MS2tqYi9CWkJqcWRmQmVwTG5FZz09

Speaker: Professor Katina Michael, Arizona State University and a Senior Global Futures Scientist with the Global Futures Laboratory

Abstract:

In this seminar, Katina Michael explores emerging technologies as catalysts to business transformation. She presents a series of case studies incorporating digital innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), the blockchain, cloud computing, and data analytics, and describes the organizational benefits that have ensued. She challenges the very essence of what should drive technological change by referring to broader concepts of humanity-centered design, incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) analysis. Together with her students, she presents results from an MBA class at the University of Wollongong where the motivation for the adoption of new technologies is driven not by determinism, but a hope in the recalibration of business strategy toward the public interest. The innovative services proposed by the diverse practice-based cohort represent the marked shifts occurring in business globally.