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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
By Herminia Ibarra
In this excerpt from her book, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Herminia Ibarra discusses what she describes as the...
The Funny Thing About Robot Leadership
By Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren C. Howe, David De Cremer and Kai Chi (Sam) Yam
Are today’s employees getting “soft”? All signs suggest that employees should:...
Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace
By Ari Kaplan
The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on Track
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
The Future of Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
By Oguz A. Acar
Generative AI has an impressive capacity to produce creative work that is barely distinguishable from or – dare we say it?...
Blockchain can bring a new way of approaching identity proof
You might not notice it but chances are you’re identifying yourself several times throughout a normal day. That’s not because you’re being constantly pulled...
Accelerating Europe’s Path to Reinvention
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk and Laura Wright
Despite the challenging business environment, European executives are optimistic about their organization's future growth. By embracing Total...
Preparing for the Next Wave of Innovation? Think Beyond Technology
By Gianfranco Casati, Vedrana Savic and Koteswara Ivaturi
More than ever, industry giants are applying what we call “non-incremental” innovation, to shake up their established...
Can Space Tourism Open New Opportunities for Tackling Problems on Earth?
This decade marked the beginning of a new era where a trip to space is available to any billionaire willing to pay for such...
The Rise of NFTs and How Enterprise Blockchain Could Be Capitalizing
In times past, creatives and other professionals had problems monetizing their work. They had to be part of a larger company or agency that...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Brain-Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation
By Hamilton Mann, Cornelia Walther, and Michael Platt
This paper introduces the concept of “brain-machine synchrony,” exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
How Ultrasonic Safety Technology Remains Vital during The Pandemic
Many things have changed globally as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, the world will never be the same again. Millions...
Managing remote industrial sites, assets and infrastructure with automated UAVs
There are many challenges associated with managing industrial facilities and infrastructure, and the difficulty of those challenges increases exponentially when those facilities are remote...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant...
Six Technologies Bringing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
By Cezara Panait
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the world’s biggest challenges, with governments and private actors joining forces in finding innovative...
Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective. Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources
By Christophe Sempels and Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Values: New Challenges for Mental Health Professionals in the...
By Simon L. Dolan and Tom Dolan
The co-authors of this article are 30 years apart in age, genetically bonded as biological father and son,...
Turning Societal Challenges into Business through Value Sharing
By Simona Rocchi, Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh, Karthik Subbaraman, Luc de Clerck and Reon Brand
How do brands stay meaningful and relevant in the 21st...
Business and Governments and Civil Society and a Healthy Planet
By Sylvain Guyoton and Hervé Legenvre
The following discussion took place In April 2020. We aimed at confronting our points of views on the contradictory...
The Biases That Derail Open Innovation Initiatives
By Oguz A. Acar
Everyone loves an innovative idea, until they do not. According to Oguz Acar, “Idea novelty promotes acceptance up to a point;...
How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
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...
Leading in an Age of Disruption
By Hannes Gurzki and Joachim Junghanss
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, few people would have expected the acceleration of digital technology and the new ways...
Innovation, the Art of Abolishing Distance: Building the ATTRACT DeepTech Ecosystem
By Hervé Legenvre
DeepTech technologies have significant effects on the economy and are an avenue to solve many problems humanity faces. However, the vitality of...
From Lifestyle Influencer to Agriculture Pioneer
Most of today’s farmers make decisions such as how much fertilizer to apply based on a combination of rough measurements, experience and recommendations. Once...
Entrepreneurs and social sciences researchers: the same mindset and skills ?
By Claire Doussard and Julien Billion
The researcher is an entrepreneur to some extent, and the entrepreneur cannot start his or her activity without doing...
Building the Strategic Architecture of the Post Pandemic Corporate Landscape
By Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Alessandro Lanteri and Dr. Terence Tse
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major disruptor for tried and tested approaches...
TRIP Framework: Re-Thinking Organisational Competitiveness in Digital Spheres
By Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus
Across industries, organisations are in search of new ways to enhance their competitiveness in the midst of digital disruption...
Getting a Job In 2025
By Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade.
Even with my own three decades...
The Merck Innovation Cup: Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
When we launched the Merck Innovation Cup in 2011, none of us was sure about its potential to inspire the next generation of scientists...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
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...
Innovating Beyond the Familiar
By Patrick Barwise & Seán Meehan
Don’t be overawed by Apple – your company too can innovate beyond the familiar. This isn’t about “blue-sky thinking”,...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
Open-space Ethics for Co-workers
Open-space offices are fast becoming the norm. For businesses and workers, they offer many advantages: easier communication for collaboration, lower costs, and greater transparency...
A Beginner’s Guide to Metaverse | Definition & Examples
The world metaverse is gaining popularity. Being an alternate virtual reality, the metaverse is full of shared 3D spaces where people can attend virtual...
Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Privacy Risks of Big Data
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier
In Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier...
What are the Different Non-Profit Organizations Accepting Cryptocurrency?
You must remember the early days of bitcoin when transactions were started with it here and there. At the time this non-profit organization known...
The Bumpy Road to Business Model Innovation: Overcoming Cognitive and Organisational Barriers
By Nicolai Foss & Tina Saebi
Although proven that innovating a company’s business model can significantly increase performance, a majority of companies fail to do...
Developing Trust and Relationships in the Supply Chain using Social Media
By Daniel E. O’Leary
Social media facilitates gathering information and knowledge from disparate sources, which in turn allows sharing of information, knowledge and plans, all...
Is Your Innovation Strategy Ready to Meet the 21st Century?
By Tamara Bekefi and Marc J. Epstein
We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...
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...
Innovation (not) at the core
By Claudio Cisullo
A common mistake in industries faced by severe performance pressure is to turn to well-known innovation tools and strategies. Especially in sectors...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
By Adrian Furnham
Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
Innovative Growth: Just a Journey from A to B?
By Keith Goffin and Ian Kierans
It’s clear that establishing a successful business calls for a high degree of innovation. But does the work end...
ChatGPT Goes (not yet) to Hollywood
By Jacques Bughin
Will ChatGPT solve all of your organisation´s problems? Here are points to consider before you implement the seemingly magical AI tool.
Since its...
TOP READS OF THE WEEK
The Lawbreaker: How Deliberate Rule-Breaking Drives Innovation
By Doug Hall
Transformational ideas require a leap of faith. They require you to break free of your “adultness” to allow your mind to run free and unconstrained. This article presents one of the most...
The Drama Queen Leader: Theatricality and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Adrian Furnham
Friendly, dramatic, and attention-seeking, they are difficult to miss. You may find them entertaining in social settings, but what happens when you have to work with them? In this article, Adrian Furnham...
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Artificial Integrity
By Hamilton Mann
Much has been said about how to instill integrity into AI-generated content. So far, the focus has been on policing training data or filtering output, but wouldn't it be better if the...
