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 MÂŞ 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...
Fintech: a Force for Disrupting and Democratising Financial Services
Fintech is like a snowball on a hill that is getting bigger and bigger and changing finance tremendously. London-based entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya is well...
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...
Mining Actionable Information with Smart Capture: INTERVIEW WITH ENNO LUECKEL, EPHESOFT
Companies collect tons of data nowadays, but most of them do not yet profit from that treasure. The situation can be compared to the...
Five Leadership Lessons that will Help you Boost Productivity
By Deborah Sherry
Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
Bridging the Circular Economy and Social Enterprise: The Dutch Ministry of Defence...
by Khaled Soufani, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, Giorgos Dimitriou and Panayotis KikirasÂ
A holistic approach to circular economy is the one that merges the mission-driven...
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...
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...
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...
The Rise Of The Imagination Economy
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An
The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...
Fun & Games: Business Models for Innovation
By Gregory Gimpel
While many brilliant ideas come from start-ups with unsustainable business models, well-established firms suffer from an inability to innovate, especially in regulated...
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito
Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....
Digital Reality No.1: Customer Experience is Value
By Stijn Viaene
Customer-centric practices have been one of the key considerations in this age of digital transformation. In this article, Professor Stijn Viaene elaborates...
Digitalisation: The Pharmakon of Open Organisations
By Albert Meige
The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise – the same entity we are familiar with today.1...
Improving Rural Livelihoods through E-Commerce: The GoCoop Experience
By Siva Devireddy, G. Sabarinathan, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri and Janine Coughlin
In India’s rural areas live handloom weavers and artisans who have been doing their...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
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...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
What A Leader Should Know About Sleep
By John Axelsson & Tina Sundelin
In this article, the authors lift the lid on the pitfalls of a lack of adequate sleep – in...
The Burning Platform of Retail Banking
By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi
Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
Beyond the Hateful 8
By Steven P. MacGregor
 Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...
Smart Manufacturing
By Seeram Ramakrishna, Chen-Khong Tham and Teo Kie Leong
Manufacturing is vital to a country’s economic growth and ability to innovate. Manufacturing is changing from...
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...
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...
Beyond Markets: Entrepreneurship in the Civil Society
By Pablo Munoz
Entrepreneurship, as a societal phenomenon, is not embedded in those abstractions we call markets, but rather in what we do daily, oftentimes...
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...
Have We Lost the Ability to Listen to Bad News?
By Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kishore Sengupta & Henk Akkermans
Research shows that project managers continuously prioritised good vibes (positive, but...
Reverse Innovation: A New World Order for Global Innovation?
By Simone Corsi & Max von Zedtwitz
Recognising the growing role that emerging economies play in the global innovation landscape, the article provides a measure...
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...
The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors
By Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson
A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting established businesses by the process of “decoupling”. In this article,...
Making 3D printing work for you: Defining Business Models for Additive Manufacturing
By Matthias Holweg, Kai Hoberg, Frits K. Pil, Jakob Heinen Â
Companies struggle to define the value proposition 3D printing brings: While the opportunities for...
Mastering Innovation in Family Firms: How to Resolve the Ability vs. Willingness Paradox
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...