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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Design For Wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
Health and wellbeing in the professional domain continue to garner increased attention. In this article, the author wraps up the year through...
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...
Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation
By Braden Kelley
Building a company is not as simple as having the right amount of money. More than having a business plan, creating a...
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...
Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace
By Steven P. MacGregor
Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...
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...
Minding the Gap: Women and Angel Investing
By Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb
In spite of the impressive growth of women-owned firms in the United States in the recent years, they are...
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...