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 ChangeAdrian 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 futureCaryn West, Christopher Rouen Chapter 2: On LeadershipVictor Mills Chapter 3: Domino effect: How pandemic chain reactions disrupted companies and industriesMichael Tomczyk Chapter 4: Strategic Reframing for Retailing in a Post- Covid world: A Scenario Planning ApproachMalobi Mukherjee Part 2: Process Chapter 5: Technology roadmap: The big pivot and emerging trends in a post-Covid worldChristopher 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 worldRoberto Dillon, Paul Lothian, Simran Grewal, Daryl Pereira Chapter 8: Reducing Cyber Risk in Remote WorkVihangi Vagal, Roberto Dillon Chapter 9: The effects and innovations in gaming and digital entertainment forced by the pandemicMarco Accordi Rickards, Micaela Romanini, Guglielmo De Gregori Part 3: Planet Chapter 10: Digital workplace transformation and the 20 minute CityDavid J. Calkins Chapter 11: Co-benefits of re-greening the city: Case study of Ottawa, CanadaAdrienne Yuen Chapter 12: Future of learning and teaching in higher education post CovidAbhishek Bhati, Caroline Wong, Esther Fink Chapter 13: Bolstering biometric data: Can privacy survive in a Post COVID WorldMelissa Wingard Part 4: Prosperity Chapter 14: A Strategic Architecture for Post-Pandemic Corporate ProsperityMark Esposito, Alessandro Lanteri, Terence Tse Chapter 15: Digital servitization and reverse logistics toward a new circular economyAdrian T.H. Kuah, Chang H. Kim Chapter 16: Agriculture and the future of food through digital and other novel technologiesStewart Lockie

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.