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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...
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:...
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...
What is Bitcoin, and what are the reasons behind its rising popularity?
The world today has become a highly digital play, and the ways of doing things have changed spectacularly. It is a way of doing...
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...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina
To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships
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This technical note explores some...
Corporate Foresight In An Ever-Turbulent Era
By Alex Fergnani, Andy Hines, Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
Nobody knows what the future holds in store. How, then, should businesses prepare for the...
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 Definitive Guide to Starting a Corporate Intrapreneurship Program
You can’t go to a conference these days without talking about innovation and you can’t talk about innovation without talking some of the usual...
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...
How IoT Technology is Helping to Revolutionise the Agriculture Sector
Data-driven agriculture has the potential to transform the UK’s farming sector.
The UK’s population is expected to exceed 70 million people by 2031. To keep...
Open Minds Build Innovative Societies
By David De Cremer And Alain Van Hiel
Being marked as an innovative country is crucial in how able and savvy one’s nation is considered...
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Robots Are Cleaning Up – And Much More Besides!
Interview with Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics
The potential of robots to assist and even replace humans in a variety of work areas...
Coronawashing: How Can Firms Establish Moral Authenticity?
By Glyn Atwal and Maya Kaiser
The Covid-19 pandemic represents both challenges and opportunities for brand marketing. Spreading rapidly around the globe, the novel coronavirus...
Free Flow of Data: What the Corporate World Can Learn from Science
By Andreas Deppeler
It is often said that the digital economy runs on data. Digital technologies have transformed the economy and society – and data...
Corporate Listening Provides Insights and Business Value
By Jim Macnamara
The voice of customers (VOC) is recognized as vitally important in marketing and corporate communication. VOC is a key source of market...
Covid-19, Stress, Self-Esteem, Values, and Psychological Well-being: How to Assess Risks of Becoming Depressed,...
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Dr. Salvador Garcia Sanchez
A few years back, we published several books dealing with Stress, Self -Esteem, Health and...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an...
Science for a Better Tomorrow
By Ulrich A.K. Betz
The future holds daunting challenges for the human race, and some good news wouldn’t come amiss. Here, Ulrich Betz gives us...
A Wake-up Call for the Corporate World
By Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt, Catherine Mitchell, and Jens Weinmann
New regulations and opportunities in the decentralized energy market can be good for the planet...
DVC Framework: Accelerating Digital Value Creation
By Dr Mike Cooray and Dr Rikke Duus
In this article, we present the Digital Value Creation (DVC) framework. The DVC framework can be used...
Partnering to Grow in the Digital Era
By Ina Sebastian, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
For many companies today the most important goal is growth. One of the big opportunities for achieving...
An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...
Working Parents Employment Law: Does it Need an Overhaul?
By Jayne Harrison
There has been an on-going struggle to pass laws that offer legal protection to pregnant working women. More and more people...
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...
The Top 10 Young Leaders Of Europe Poised To Transform The World
By Paula Hass and Valentina Loiz
The future of Europe depends on the ideas, ambition and determination of young people. The young achievers on this...
Voice-Automated Smart Cars of the Future
Voice recognition is now a huge part of our daily lives. From tech experts to children, just about anyone has come across these devices...
The Rise of the Hospitality Manager
Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
New demands are emerging in...
Value in Every Idea
By Neill Hunt
The trial and error process is not only tedious, but also very high-risk. However, it is an uncertainty organisations must gamble on...
How data science can enhance weather forecasting
As anyone who has carried an umbrella under the sunniest sky possible knows, weather forecasts are far from being infallible. They can’t offer 100%...
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...
Inviting Post-graduate Students and Young Professionals to Join the Merck Innovation Cup Summer Camp...
From June 20 - 26, 2020, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will be hosting the 10th Anniversary Innovation Cup Summer Camp (http://innovationcup.merckgroup.com) near Frankfurt, Germany, and we are inviting...
The Sleeping Giant: Voice in the Enterprise
By Laurence Minsky, Eric Turkington, Colleen Fahey and Will Hall
One of the important market disruptions taking place today is the ascent of voice technology....
Three Trends Driving the Geospatial AI Revolution
Geospatial AI, the intersection of geospatial data and artificial intelligence, is the new frontier of technological innovation that promises to transform entire business industries....
Transpitality: How Autonomous Driving Technology Will Reshape the Industry Landscape
By Steve Lee, Won-Yong Oh, Irene Yi
There has been increasing attention to self-driving cars, but business is still missing some key insights into how...
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...
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...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
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...
Future Insight – From a 350th Birthday to the Start of a Global Movement
By Ulrich A.K. Betz
Merck, a vibrant science and technology company, celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2018. Dr. Ulrich A.K. Betz, VP and Head 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...
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...
Corporate Venturing: How Much to Wait Before Killing an Opportunity? (Breaking Up with a...
By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Isabel Martinez-Monche, Yair Martinez, and Celeste Saccomano
Corporate venturing – the collaborative framework between established corporations and innovative start-ups...
Rethinking Future Higher Education
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek
“Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.”
The world around...
Design Thinking: Eight Mistakes to Avoid
By Josemaria Siota and Thomas Klueter
When properly implemented, design thinking can result in higher success rate for innovation. However, one of our studies states...
Building Sustainability into Real Estate
By Joanna Radeke, Alexander Boether, and Alexandre Bezzera
Both residents and shareholders enjoy the right returns when real estate companies collaborate and innovate for environmental...
Corporate Venturing: Challenges and best practices of large firms innovating with start-ups
By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Celeste Saccomano Tommaso Canonici and Xavier Contijoch
Innovation in large corporations, particularly the practice of corporate venturing to innovate with start-ups, is...
What Governments Need to Understand About Ethical AI
By Josh Entsminger, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Terence Tse, and Danny Goh
The increasing application of artificial intelligence across the value chain reflects that such a technological development provides...
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