Digital Transformation in a Post-Covid World: Sustainable Innovation, Disruption, and Change

by Adrian T. H. Kuah (Editor), Roberto Dillon (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032077383
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/04/2021
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Echo effects of COVID-19: Implications for mental health and wellbeing, now and in the future. 2. On Leadership. 3. Domino effect: How pandemic chain reactions disrupted companies and industries. 4. Strategic reframing for retailing in a post-Covid world: A scenario planning approach. 5. Technology roadmap: The big pivot and emerging trends in a post-Covid world. 6. Strategic engineering to develop strategies during a crucial period. 7. Cyber Security: Evolving threats in an ever-changing world. 8. Reducing cyber risk in remote work. 9. The effects and innovations in gaming and digital entertainment forced by the pandemic. 10. Digital workplace transformation and the 20 minute City. 11. Co-benefits of re-greening the city: Case study of Ottawa, Canada. 12. Future of learning and teaching in higher education post Covid. 13. Bolstering biometric data: Can privacy survive in a post-Covid World. 14. A Strategic architecture for post-pandemic corporate prosperity. 15. Digital servitization and reverse logistics toward a new circular economy. 16. Agriculture and the future of food through digital and other novel technologies.