Alena Rykunina

Designing Without Borders: Alena Rykunina on Building Tech for Diverse Users

Interview with Alena Rykunina of inDrive From fintech to global mobility, Alena Rykunina’s career journey reflects a passion for human-centered design and meaningful impact. In...

Making Inclusive Growth a Reality: Lessons from India

By Raghav Narsalay and Anish Gupta Reaching out to the poor in emerging markets has long been a laudable social goal. But in India today,...
Graphic design

8 Graphic Design Tips All Non-Designers Need to Know

What is Graphic designing? Primarily, Graphic designing is a form of art, which includes the process of combining pictures and text to relay a particular...

What Banking Sector Can Gain the Most from Digital Innovations?

Digital innovations have disrupted numerous industries, and banking is no exception. Digitalisation has introduced us to online banking, contactless payments, and many other services.Banks...
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Why Sustainable Innovation is the Ticket to Sustainable Economic Growth.   

By Diana Verde Nieto and Penny Brook   We are standing at the foothills of a new business paradigm; we are starring into a near future...
Automotive Industry

Connecting the Unconnected in the Automotive Industry Four Ecosystems that are Reshaping Automotive Industry...

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio Connectivity is a defining feature of digitalisation. As companies increase their use of digital technologies in their products and...

DART: On Target to Meet the Needs of the Travel Industry

Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo In the fiercely competitive world of the post-pandemic travel industry, travel suppliers are looking to provide a leaner, more...

Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...

Assessing Your Level Of Preparedness In 10 Key Domains1 By Simon L. Dolan, Alex Makarevich and Kristine Marin Kawamura This article describes 10 key dimensions that...

An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True

By Ulrich A.K. Betz , VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck   Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and...

The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...

By Albert Meige An analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and...

Innovation Strategy

By Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias Many top level executives are still hopelessly behind when it comes to designing an effective innovation strategy in the...
Machine Learning

Role of Machine Learning in Scaling Your Start-Up

By Ankit Patel What is Machine Learning? Artificial Intelligence (AL) and Machine Learning (ML) are ringing the bells in the digital market and are benefiting businesses...
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Simcere Closed an Out-License Deal of 492M USD with Almirall

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group(2096.HK), an innovation and R&D-driven pharmaceutical company, and Almirall S.A. (BME: ALM), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on skin health; announced recently...

NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential

By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...

2025 Outlook: HR Trends Shaping Work in 2025 

By Sirsha Haldar  With 2025 quickly approaching, businesses are grappling with the pace of change that is already taking place in the workplace. In this...
Future of Management Education

The Future of Management Education: Re-thinking Business Models.

By Luis Toro Dupouy, PhD A business model describes how an organization creates, distributes, and captures value in a profitable manner. The model should cover...
Copyright Law

4 Useful Copyrighting Laws That Can Protect Your Business Logo from Others

Your business has a unique name; now it needs a recognizable logo too. Having a logo is essential to build a distinct visual representation...
Domiciliary Care

Domiciliary Care Agency Startup: How To Start Your Business

By George Griffiths A domiciliary care agency startup is an excellent option for care professionals who want to expand their business and support more people...
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Generative AI In Innovation Development: A Catalyst For Creative Disruption

By Filippo Frangi From identifying strategic opportunities to enabling faster experimentation, from co-designing with users to reshaping go-to-market strategies, GenAI is pushing the boundaries of...

How High-End Disruption Completes the Disruptive Innovation Model

By Juan Pablo Vazquez Sampere Why don’t we have an integrated mechanism of entrepreneurship to consistently make new companies successful? Turns out that the Disruption...

Selecting the Right Digital Influencer in B2B Markets: Guidelines for Managers

By Benedetta Crisafulli, Jaywant Singh and La Toya Quamina Using digital influencers to reach mass audiences is becoming popular in business-to-business (B2B) markets. For business...

The Search for Innovation Leadership

By Jeff Gaspersz What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?   In all the years I...
Slip Rings are Made of Ceramic Material: Advantages in High-Temperature Environments

Slip Rings are Made of Ceramic Material: Advantages in High-Temperature Environments

Slip rings are integral components used in various applications to enable the transmission of electrical signals and power between rotating and stationary parts. While...
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Employee Climate Anxiety is on The Rise – How Leaders Can Address It and...

By Marga Hoek As climate change accelerates, so does employee climate anxiety—affecting well-being, performance, and retention. In this piece, Marga Hoek explores how leaders can...
AI

Conversational AI is Asking for Ethical Oversight: How Can Humans Best Answer the Call?

By Laetitia Cailleteau and Patrick Connolly As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it is able to sustain ever more human-like relationships with end users. This...
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Redefining Digital Commerce: How AI can Bring Back a Human Connection 

By Tom Cox Many retailers are struggling to recreate the close human engagement found in bricks-and-mortar stores in their online buying journeys, especially as consumer...

Scaling You: Do Less to Achieve More with Effective Outsourcing

By Elizabeth Eiss  You built your business from the ground up—every decision, every detail. But what got you here won’t get you to the next...
Promote Your CBD Business Online

5 Ways to Promote Your CBD Business Online

There is no denying the fact that CBD is the biggest thing right now in the wellness industry. CBD is an organic substance obtained...
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Encoders For Servo Motor Overview

There are two types of encoders: absolute and incremental. An absolute encoder produces a pulse train, which indicates the change from one step to...
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The Canvas of Community: How Public Art Shapes Emotions and Fulfills Its Own Prophecy

By Dr. Anna Rostomyan and Dr. Monika Klein Art is just art. Or is it? Can art go beyond a form of self-expression into influencing...

Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups

By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...
Strategic Foresight

Why Invest in Strategic Foresight?

By Ph.D. Nando Malmelin and Dr.Sc. (Tech.) Kalle Kantola Most companies are missing the opportunities of strategic foresight in developing and growing their business. We have seen this...
Decacorn

Inside the Journey of a Decacorn

By Jacques Bughin Start-ups – and their unicorn, and now decacorn, darlings – are critical both for value creation as well as for economic growth...
Co-Create

Manage or Co-create? Time to Choose

By David Weitzner Today's leaders have a choice to make: encourage their workers to be “partners in co-creation” or swim against the tide while clinging...

Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits

By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
small business

Small Business: 10 Tips for Success

                             Starting a small business is a persistent endeavour that requires...
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The Race to Net Zero: How AI Can be Harnessed to Meet the Growing...

By Román Campa The demand for green skills in Europe is surging, but there’s currently a shortage of talent to meet it. Román Campa, CEO...

Creating Collaborative Advantage

By John Sutherland Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...

7 Reasons Why a Logo is Important to Your Business

When building a successful business, one of the key factors that you need to take into account is your logo. Creating a logo may...

Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be In The Business of Learning

By Edward D. Hess The velocity of business change will increase over the next decade driven by technology advances making the speed and quality of...

What Managers Need to Know about Platforms

By Annabelle Gawer A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition Whether we are talking about Google,...

Comparative Decision Making: An Emerging Interdiscipline

By Philip Crowley & Thomas Zentall How can we continue to analyse human decision making in an age when free will is considered to be...

Will The Robots Save Company Culture?

By Simone Sneed-McGurl Over the past 25 years we have seen a rapid proliferation of workplace technology, automation and artificial intelligence. The evolution of the...
Innovation

Notion Edge UK Rebrands as Prezien, Ushering in a New Era of Innovation and...

London, 22 May 2023 – Notion Edge UK, a leading SAP consultancy and services provider, is thrilled to announce its rebranding to Prezien, marking...

Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...

By Christopher Surdak In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...

A Business Wealth Creation Roadmap

By Christopher H. Volk We live in unprecedented times where emerging businesses seem to mint billionaires on a regular basis.  One would have to look...

How 3D printing technology can slash design cycle time and improve quality components

Use of prototypes slashes design times Prototyping is an incredibly important stage of the design cycle. Once a module or machine component has been designed...

Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...

By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
Businessmen use voice commands and agentic AI to enable Artificial intelligence to help search engines, Communication responds in real-time voice, and Futuristic technology transformat

The Agentic Race: Smart Lessons From Companies Leading the Way

By Yousef Khalili Agentic AI is slowly changing the very foundations of business by allowing systems to act autonomously, make their own decisions and pursue...

5 Keys to Resolving Cross-Functional Rivalries in your Digital Transformation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Nigel Stacey, Raghav Narsalay, Aarohi Sen, and Paul Barbagallo The challenge is as old as business itself: How do you get people...