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Taking the Circular Way to Sustainable Development: Interview with Outi Suomi of Business Finland
Finland leads the comparison tables in attaining the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and is ahead of its European rivals in taking up digitalisation. Business...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
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...
Taking Collective Intelligence Seriously: The Realities of Participative Strategy-Making
By Olga Ghazaryan, William Garrood & John Higgins
This is the story of a wholehearted, participative approach to a new 10-year global strategy, designed to...
Consumers Consider Identity Verification Vital When Engaging With Crypto Exchanges
New Trulioo report finds 82% crypto leaders agree, say identity verification provides assurances for consumers during uncertain times
Vancouver, British Columbia, Nov. 8, 2022: New...
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;...
New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity
By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo
PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
On the Need to Reinvent Your Business: Companies’ Survival Depends on Different Phases of...
By David De Cremer
Organisations are born, conquer market share and, if successful, grow. In this process, it’s equally important that they are aware of...
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...
Why Circular Business Models are Superior in the 2030s
By Henrik Hvid Jensen
The “born-circular” are companies designed for circular economy business models and have brought circularity into all the steps of product...
Will TikTok Take Over Facebook to Dominate Social Media?
By Shweta Singh
I have a 10 year-old niece named Divya (not her real name) in rural northern India. Two years ago, I visited and...
Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation of Education: Part I: New Paradigms, New Reality, and...
By Mario Raich, Kristine M. Kawamura, Simon L. Dolan, Paweł M. Rowiński
and Claudio Cisullo
This paper is Part I of two articles to be published...
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
Reaching net-zero: Cities are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
By Guilherme Rodrigues
Cities have a bad environmental reputation, mostly due to congestion and poor air quality. However, air quality is not the overall picture....
Innovation – now and for generations to come
By Ulrich A.K. Betz
Merck is well known as a vibrant science and technology company. But the company's drive to improve the well-being of humanity...
Managing People’s Talent with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence leadership goes beyond technology
By Prof. Guido Stein, IESE Business School and Alberto Barrachina, Research Assistant
For companies, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the...
A Compass for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Learning Officers
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Based on a 5 year study of the executive development industry, comprising interviews with over 200 executives, CLO’s, CEO’s,...
What Type of Data Does a Sankey Diagram Generally Use?
Operating in an environment that deals with complex data types may seem extremely stressful, especially if you are not backed up. Data visualization breaks...
5 Key Moments to Consider When Building a Web Application for Your Business
By Oleksii Tsymbal
Emerging companies and startups know that mobile is not the only way to succeed in the market. Businesses operating in e-commerce, healthcare,...
Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying
By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor
“In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset”
What exactly do spies do? What...
Telecommunications: Getting the Message Across: Interview with Mr. Alessio De Sio, ZTE
As Chief Institutional and Communication Officer in Europe for telecoms company ZTE, a large component of Alessio de Sio's role is to inform the...
Mobile App Development Trends that Drive the Industry in 2022
By Oleksii Tsymbal
The pervasiveness of mobile apps in our society is staggering. Mobile applications are a golden opportunity for many businesses to connect with...
MERCK PRESS RELEASE – 2022 Research Challenges
Over the recent decades, the creation, discovery, and use of science and technology have become increasingly important to all sectors of society. At the...
Khuram Dhanani On Pandemic Driven Technology Innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an environment of unprecedented change and disruption, according to Khuram Dhanani. In response, businesses have had to innovate at...
Curious2022 – Future Insight Conference
Dear Curious2022 – Future Insight Partner,
UNITED BY SCIENCE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
This is the essence of Curious – Future Insight!
When has it ever been...
Towards the Future of Work – How to Thrive in the Digital Era
By Francesca Cristea
The world has rapidly changed during the last two years marked by the global pandemic and our society took a big leap...
The Rise of AI Avatars in Business
By Oleksii Tsymbal
As the changes to the landscape of the market accelerate at a breakneck pace, businesses continue to embrace new technologies like AI...
Preserving the Human Element in Robots with Blue Ocean Robotics
Interview with Claus Risager, Blue Ocean Robotics Chief Strategy Officer
In the films, robots are often shown as a threat, frequently getting out of control...
Cryptoassets and Dispute Resolution: Four Things to Know
By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp
With an increased interest in non-traditional financial transactions and record-high inflation rates, cryptoassets represent the next frontier for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Role of AR/VR in the Development of the Metaverse
By Oleksii Tsymbal
The past year has been full of bold new tech ideas, and the metaverse is on the top of the list. By...
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...
More than Policies: Bricks, Mortar, and Entrepreneurship
By David Johnson and John Mackenzie
Science commercialisation activities at the university-industry boundary are key drivers to high-growth, sustainable university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs). To support...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
The Corporate World’s Comeback: Time to Seize the Opportunity
By Anna Saghabalyan and Paul Argenti
Since the start of the COVID Pandemic, the world’s attention was focused on the calculation of two sets of...
When Leadership Drives Innovation: The case of WeLink
By David De Cremer
Ask any executive how they would like the ideal work force to act and many of them would probably say something...
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...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Every generation wants to improve on the previous generation; however, this generation risks...
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...
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...
People Assessment in the Digital Age
By Adrian Furnham
How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...
Building a future-proof company – Four cornerstones of transformative corporate foresight
By Nando Malmelin, Matti Pihlajamaa and Pauli Komonen
The article provides a new framework to manage and develop corporate foresight, guiding strategic thinking and business...
Getting the AI edge: An exclusive interview with MobiDev CEO Oleg Lola
How can businesses leverage artificial intelligence effectively? Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, outlines his company’s approach to harnessing the power of AI in the...
Eric-Theodore Yepao Explores the Possibilities of the Private City for Residents and Businesses
Eric-Theodore Yepao of Nordland Holding Europe GmbH explains the private city’s concepts and how they can benefit residents and businesses alike.
What Is A Private...
Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises through the Synergy of AI and Blockchain
By Yan Pang
The ability to make effective use of AI technology has hitherto remained in the province of large enterprises, with their access to...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
Merck Innovation Cup 2021
From June 26th – July 2nd, 2021, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a vibrant science & technology company with a more than 350 years long history, will be hosting...
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...
