1st Edition
Digital Transformation in a Post-Covid World Sustainable Innovation, Disruption, and Change
This book explores the innovations, disruptions and changes that are required to adapt in a fast-evolving landscape due to the extraordinary circumstances triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognized experts from around the world share their research and professional experience on how the working environment, as well as the world around them, have changed due to the pandemic.
Chapters consider how different fields across technology and business have been affected by this new, dramatic scenario and the drastic consequences that the pandemic had on them. With diverse contributions stemming from public health, technology strategies, urban planning and sociology to sustainable management, this volume is articulated into four distinct but complementary sections of People, Process, Planet, and Prosperity influencing the post-COVID world.
This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of computer science and information technology, as well as those studying the impact and effects that COVID-19 is having on society.
Introduction:
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Sustainable Innovation, Disruption, and Change
Adrian T. H. Kuah, Roberto Dillon
Part 1: People
Chapter 1: Echo effects of COVID-19: Implications for mental health and wellbeing, now and in the future
Caryn West, Christopher Rouen
Chapter 2: On Leadership
Victor Mills
Chapter 3: Domino effect: How pandemic chain reactions disrupted companies and industries
Michael Tomczyk
Chapter 4: Strategic Reframing for Retailing in a Post- Covid world: A Scenario Planning Approach
Malobi Mukherjee
Part 2: Process
Chapter 5: Technology roadmap: The big pivot and emerging trends in a post-Covid world
Christopher Warren
Chapter 6: Strategic engineering to develop strategies during a crucial period.
Agostino Bruzzone, Marina Massei
Chapter 7: Cyber Security: evolving threats in an ever-changing world
Roberto Dillon, Paul Lothian, Simran Grewal, Daryl Pereira
Chapter 8: Reducing Cyber Risk in Remote Work
Vihangi Vagal, Roberto Dillon
Chapter 9: The effects and innovations in gaming and digital entertainment forced by the pandemic
Marco Accordi Rickards, Micaela Romanini, Guglielmo De Gregori
Part 3: Planet
Chapter 10: Digital workplace transformation and the 20 minute City
David J. Calkins
Chapter 11: Co-benefits of re-greening the city: Case study of Ottawa, Canada
Adrienne Yuen
Chapter 12: Future of learning and teaching in higher education post Covid
Abhishek Bhati, Caroline Wong, Esther Fink
Chapter 13: Bolstering biometric data: Can privacy survive in a Post COVID World
Melissa Wingard
Part 4: Prosperity
Chapter 14: A Strategic Architecture for Post-Pandemic Corporate Prosperity
Mark Esposito, Alessandro Lanteri, Terence Tse
Chapter 15: Digital servitization and reverse logistics toward a new circular economy
Adrian T.H. Kuah, Chang H. Kim
Chapter 16: Agriculture and the future of food through digital and other novel technologies
Stewart Lockie
Biography
Dr. Adrian T. H. Kuah is a research leader at both The Cairns Institute in Australia and Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia at James Cook University, Singapore. His research focuses on sustainability, consumer behaviour and human resources management.
Dr. Roberto Dillon is the Head of the School of Science and Technology at James Cook University, Singapore, where his research focuses on game design, the history of technology and cybersecurity.
