First Effectiveness, Then Efficiency: Why AI Can Make You Fail Faster
By Anne J. Thoresen
AI can make organisations move faster, but speed without direction scales weak assumptions, wrong priorities and flawed decisions as efficiently...
The Hidden Costs of Getting Early-Stage Innovation Wrong and How to Get it Right
By Coral McConnon
Executed early-stage innovation drains money, organisational bandwidth and engagement, but understanding how the brain thinks creatively helps organisations get it right and...
Can a Sticker-Sized Sensor Help Solve Europe’s Energy Crisis?
An insight into SureFlow's Electrical Hub Kit, which uses adhesive, self-install sensors and AI-powered technology to bring circuit-level energy monitoring to homes without an...
The Circular Paradox: Why Circular Firms Struggle in Europe’s Most Circular Cities
By Dr Nikhilesh Sinha and Satrupa Ghosh
Although Europe has the highest number of circular startups1 and its cities lead on circular transition plans, coordination...
The Three-Stage Choreography Behind the Korean Innovation Edge
By David Dubois
Korean firms turn hierarchy into an innovation engine: framing tightly, experimenting freely, then scaling decisively to convert speed into advantage.
David Dubois is...
Fashion as a Means of Non-Verbal Communication: A Scientific Perspective on Emotional Expressions
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan and Dr. Monika Klein
Did you know that fashion can be used to express your internal state by communicating non-verbally with...
What Airbnb and Netflix Can Teach Founders About Recurring Revenue
By Jimmy Cockerton
Two very different companies built empires on revenue that repeats, and their playbook now works for everything from coffee to consultancy.
Ask a...
How to Build a Resilient Business Model in Complex Economies
Interview with Carl Livie, CEO at JustPlay
Building a resilient business model requires leaders to understand what drives value, protect flexibility and adapt before complexity...
Culture by Design: How to Build a Brand That Feels Personal at Scale
By Sherjan Husainie
Businesses can personalize their brand at scale by creating the right supportive systems and brand-specific frameworks.
Customers want brands to feel personal and...
Is Fashion’s Content Model Still Fit for Purpose?
By Maísa Benatti
Everyone is asking whether AI will replace creative teams, but shouldn't we be asking what creative teams should actually be spending their...
EdTech is the Real Index of AI progress. Here’s Why Governments Should Care
By Janos Barberis
Startup dealflow shows which skills, credentials and entry-level jobs are breaking before official statistics do. Governments that ignore it are flying blind.
Governments...
Why AI Keeps Disappointing: You Funded a Project but Needed to Ingrain a Practice
By Dr. Patrick Lynch
Companies are pouring record sums into AI and capturing almost none of the value. The culprit is project thinking, and there's...
Pricing is Strategy: How Commercial Leaders Steer Growth, Sales, and Profit
By Muhammad Arslan Qamar
In digital businesses, pricing is not a finance formula but a board-level lever that shapes growth, governs sales behavior, and protects...
How Art Can Support Effective New Business Development
By Dr. Peter Lorange
There are multiple ways to assess a new business venture – but have you ever thought of evaluating it by reference...
The Good Plastic Company: Generating Circular Design by Choosing Scalable Waste
By Fernanda Arreola, Dr. Gregory C. Unruh, and Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens
Can plastic really be “good”, environmentally speaking? Read about a company founded on the belief...
Moat or Millstone: Can Europe Regulate Its Way to Investable Financial Inclusion?
By Alessandro Hatami
Europe’s regulatory drive could become a platform for financial inclusion, helping institutions protect customers while opening commercially valuable underserved markets.
For Europe’s financial...
Why AI Compliance Must Start Inside Your Browser
By Matt Smith
European businesses are racing to meet EU AI Act obligations, but most are overlooking the place where their greatest governance exposure actually...
The Threat of Europe’s Entrepreneurial Winter
By Filippo Renga and Filippo Frangi
Superficially, European innovation and venture capital activity looks to be ticking along quite healthily. However, as Politecnico of Milan’s...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: The Real Challenge Is Not Employment, but...
By Luigi Capoani
Artificial intelligence will increase productivity and transform labour markets, but the central challenge is ensuring that its benefits are distributed broadly across...
Making Diagnostic Reasoning Addressable: The Work That Comes After DICOM
By Dmitry Golitsyn
AI can analyze information, but scaling expertise requires something deeper: infrastructure that makes human reasoning collaborative, traceable, and reusable.
The first few minutes...
Supply Chain 6.0: The Future Generation of Supply Chains
By Guilherme F. Frederico
Supply chain operations, having seen a sea change under Supply Chain 4.0, are now getting to grips with new kid on...
Designing Global Brands Without Flattening Them: Why Cultural Relevance Always Beats Creative Consistency
By Thom Newton
In an era of AI-generated sameness, global brands grow by adapting meaningfully to local cultures rather than enforcing uniformity.
Many brands today are...
Why Venture Mode Outperforms Bureaucracy in Modern Business
Interview with Hunter Hastings
Organizations create more value when entrepreneurial leadership replaces bureaucracy, empowering teams to innovate faster and respond directly to customer needs.
Hunter Hastings...
The Verification Economy: The Hidden Cost of Enterprise AI
By Evan Reiss
AI is accelerating content creation, but organisations are discovering that trust, validation, and oversight are becoming the new bottlenecks to productivity.
Artificial...
Creating an Innovation Mindsense: Changing the Mind of the Corporation
By Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera, and Joanna Seraphim
Does your company's marketing target the most relevant part of its customers' brains? Read on to...
The Introduction of Fashion AI and How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Fashion...
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan
From trend prediction to hyper-personalization, AI is quietly becoming fashion’s most powerful designer.
Like almost every industry, fashion is absorbing the impact...
How Packaging Influences Food Quality, Freshness, and Consumer Trust
In today's hyper-competitive food industry, the secret to the success of any food brand lies in delivering its products in a professional way. In...
Why Enterprise AI Fails at the Final 30%
By Dr. Florian Rehm
AI programs rarely fail because models underperform; they fail when organizations cannot redesign decisions, accountability, and workflows around probabilistic systems.
Enterprise AI...
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a Good Start. But Does it go Far...
Europe's tech sovereignty ambitions are promising, but stronger action on infrastructure, energy, and delivery timelines is needed to secure digital independence.
Last week (June 3, 2026),...
From Black Box to Glass Box
How Portugal’s largest retailer and a Brazil-born innovation hub are reinventing how stores think.
The Bet
Two years ago, MC Sonae made a bet. Portugal’s dominant...
Collective Licensing Can Help Build a More Sustainable AI Economy
By Tom West
As scrutiny around the use of unlicensed, copyright-protected content as AI training data grows, collective licensing is emerging as a practical way...
Transforming Innovation Into the Next Big Thing: Europe Has the Ingredients. Not the Recipe.
By Denis Barrier
Europe was at the top of twentieth-century technology. The AI era demands a different model — one that turns financial investment in...
The Rearchitected Firm: Moving Beyond Hierarchies in an Age of Agentic AI
By Jacques Bughin
As AI begins to coordinate work, not just automate it, firms may evolve from static hierarchies into computationally adaptive organizations.
Artificial intelligence is...
Are You Asking AI to Fix a Problem that Was Always Structural?
By Stuart J. Green
AI makes existing operating models run faster, so what was already misaligned now misfires at machine speed, and the window for...
Competing for Control: Why Europe’s Hidden Champions Must Become Hybrid Champions
By Maria Zaffaroni
For decades, Europe’s Hidden Champions built global leadership through specialization, engineering precision, and industrial discipline. Yet competition is shifting beyond products toward...
The Luxury Paradox: When Heritage Meets Uncertainty
By Dr. Jinju Heo
How luxury executives can navigate market complexity without sacrificing brand legacy
In an industry built on stability and tradition, luxury brands face...
Can Meta Remain in the Big Tech Club?
By Igor Pejic
Meta is taking its ad machine to the next level, but legal challenges threaten its core business and its AI strategy misses...
How Europe Could Turn Ambient Listening into Competitive Advantage
By Dr. Konstantin Vdovenko and Dr. Katarzyna Byszek-Stevens
Europe has a strategic opportunity to ease demands on its healthcare system and simultaneously unlock the potential...
How Gen Z Founder Amrita Bhasin is Tackling an $800 Billion Waste Problem
By Cristina Miceli, journalist at The European Business Review
Companies in the food, beauty, and apparel industries regularly purchase surplus products to avoid stockouts. While...
Radical Renewal – Why it is Critical for Companies and Why they Fail in...
By PhD Nando Malmelin and Matti Pihlajamaa
In volatile environments marked by geopolitical shocks, sustainability pressures, and rapid advances in AI, incremental improvement alone can...
The AI Trade Is Crowded. Space Isn’t.
By Terence Tse
AI undoubtedly has the attention of investors around the world, eager to ride the crest as the AI wave washes across the...
Oxford AI Spinout Recognised at FT PWM Awards 2026
A OXvalue.AI, a spinout from the University of Oxford focused on AI-driven valuation and alternative investment intelligence, has been “Highly Commended” at the Financial...
AI Shopping Agents are Quietly Reshaping SMB Visibility
By Suhaib Zaheer
AI shopping agents are reshaping how customers discover products, forcing SMEs to rethink visibility, performance, and trust as decisions shift beyond traditional...
A Nordic Model for Powering the AI Revolution Sustainably
By Eva Sóley Guðbjörnsdóttir
A Nordic blueprint for AI infrastructure demonstrates scalability and sustainably, combining clean energy, efficient cooling and heat reuse, to balance technical...
What Are The Top Lanyard Design Trends in 2026?
The world of lanyard design is changing. Don’t get us wrong, organisations still want nice aesthetics, but they need lanyards that work well in...
How Policy Infrastructure and Collaboration Are Shaping Global AI Innovation
Interview with Wendy Chow of Invest Hong Kong
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how innovation ecosystems develop around the world. In this interview, Wendy Chow from...
Sustainable Fairy Tales Revival through Fashionable Shoe Designs: Case Study
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan
Dr. Anna Rostomyan explores the interconnection between fashion and folklore, focusing in particular on various ranges of fairy shoes. She considers...
Why Your KPIs are a Sign of Management Failure
By Daria Guristrimba
Daria Guristrimba, founder and CEO of Globe7, challenges the modern obsession with KPI-based leadership. She argues that heavy reliance on KPIs signals...
Designing Commercial Spaces with Safety in Mind – The Key Features That Help Prevent...
Safety plays a key part in the design of commercial properties. Whether an office building, a retail outlet, or a hospitality venue, the environment...
The Efficiency Paradox: When Operational Success Masks Strategic Risk
By Andrew Bryant CSP
The pursuit of operational efficiency is one of the defining leadership challenges of the AI era. But efficiency without effectiveness is...
