Six Lessons I Learned About Innovation
By Terrence Hahn
In today’s society, it is hard to conceptualise innovation without the context of technology. It is imperative to understand the technological shift...
Our Guide To Making A Great First Impression With Your Office Design
Making a great first impression is crucial when working with clients, but it could also help boost the morale of employees and encourage applicants...
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...
Changing Perceptions: the Island of Jersey brings digital ideas to success
Interview with Tony Moretta, CEO of Digital Jersey
The European Business Review caught up with Tony Moretta, the CEO of Digital Jersey. Jersey has just...
How to Learn to Understand Painting
Some people think that 90% of people don't know anything about painting, because they can't distinguish a good picture from a bad one. The...
Best Ways To Earn Extra Money This Year
Everybody needs extra cash. There are always more bills to pay, things that need to be bought for the kids or yourself, and repairs...
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...
The Future of Digital Identity Verification
Interview with Andreas Bodczek, CEO of IDnow
The digital revolution is making a significant impact on every industry, and IDnow, being the leading provider of...
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 where...
The State of Creative Operations in 2019
Creative departments in all parts of business have seen a rapid increase of work and importance, with creative operations being more important now than...
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....
Design Thinking as a Strategy for Innovation
By Linda Naiman
Design-led companies such as Apple, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and SAP have outperformed the S&P 500 by an extraordinary 211%. In this...
Reach your Goals Faster with these 4 Powerful Progress Tracking Tools
Whether you’re planning out your career or taking a project from start to finish, you’ll reach your goals faster if you track progress.
Biologically, human...
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...
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...
Software AG: Touching the Lives of Millions for Half a Century!
There is a software company that does things differently; not clamouring to be the latest headline, but quietly running the world with precision for 50 years...
Digital Partnership Strategies Revealed
By Stijn Viaene
Going for partnerships as a strategic option for driving business growth implies adopting a certain mindset: a perspective you take on the...
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...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
Companies increasingly understand...
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...
The Five Essential Pillars of Multidisciplinary Process/Service Design
By Lilla Asir
Transforming the internal structures of companies by integrating design assets has been seen by many multinational corporations as a challenging process. Crafting...
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...
Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
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...
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...
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...
Bridging Silos: Aligning Innovators with Strategic Leaders
By Dipika Mallya
While innovation is a strategic mandate for most organisations today, there is often a disconnect between teams tasked with innovation and other...
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 open...
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...
Are You Following the Right Digital Recipe?
By Tracey Countryman, David Abood, Aidan Quilligan, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen
To produce a successful dish of digital reinvention, start by combining six ingredient...
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...
Designing Results-Oriented Leadership Development Programmes
By Camelia Ilie, Guillermo Cardoza and Schon Beechler
In business, one would typically not make a large investment without an idea of how to gauge...
Bridging the Circular Economy and Social Enterprise: The Dutch Ministry of Defence...
By Khaled Soufani, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, Giorgos Dimitriou and Panayotis Kikiras
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...
To Find Value in the Digital Age, Find It for Others First
By Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore
To grow their businesses consistently, leaders must envision a much bigger picture of where value resides than...
The Right Business Model At The Right Time
By Adam Bock and Gerard George
The combination of globalisation, Moore’s law and ubiquitous information have transformed industries into fluid, rapidly-changing landscapes. Today’s competitor is tomorrow’s...
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....
5 Smart Ways to Increase Europe’s “AIQ”
By Francis Hintermann, Madhu Vazirani, and Carsten Lexa
At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
