1st Edition

Digital Infrastructures for Business Innovation

By Magda David Hercheui, Tony Cornford Copyright 2025
172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Digital infrastructures are the commonly used technologies, systems, products, and platforms which businesses use to conduct commerce, partnerships, and transactions. Chief among these infrastructures is the Internet – an infrastructure which is remarkable for its all‑pervasive presence in our daily lives – while others include cloud computing, social media, mobile technology, blockchain... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1: Infrastructures: Something old...something new

Chapter 2: Innovation…something new

Chapter 3: The origins of the Internet

Chapter 4: A layered model of digital infrastructures

Chapter 5: Emerging architecture

Chapter 6: Economics perspectives

Chapter 7: Evolving digital infrastructures

Chapter 8: Business models and digital platforms

Chapter 9: The World Wide Web (WWW)

Chapter 10: The cloud and cloud services

Chapter 11: Mobile technology

Chapter 12: Social media

Chapter 13: Metaverse: The 3D Internet

Chapter 14: Artificial intelligence: From algorithm to infrastructure

Chapter 15: Issues of governance and regulation

Chapter 16: The future of digital infrastructures for business innovation

Index

Biography

Magda David Hercheui is Professor (Management Education) in Project Management and Innovation at the UCL School of Management.

Tony Cornford recently retired as Associate Professor in Information Systems in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.