Home INNOVATION Emerging Ideas

Emerging Ideas

This category is Emerging Ideas, showcasing groundbreaking concepts, disruptive innovations, and forward-thinking strategies. It features expert insights on new business models, technological advancements, and visionary ideas shaping the future of industries and global markets.

Claudio Cisullo

Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values

Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...

DART: On Target to Meet the Needs of the Travel Industry

Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo In the fiercely competitive world of the post-pandemic travel industry, travel suppliers are looking to provide a leaner, more...
Future of Work

Imagining a Shared Journey into the Future of Work

By Simon L. Dolan, Kristine Marin Kawamura, Mario Raich, and Dave Ulrich Work enables us to create value for ourselves and others. In our forthcoming...

The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience

By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
Entrepreneurs

How New Age Entrepreneurs are Changing the Way We Think About Business

By Jessica Wong Entrepreneurs have always been at the forefront of innovation. Often starting out with limited resources, they made their mark by building businesses...
Workplace

SMEs’ Changing Organisational Landscape: Strategising the Workplace of the Future

By Ambika Zutshi, Asha Thomas, Tapan Sarker and John Mendy The varied challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have left many SMEs floundering. Here are...
SDG-led Innovation

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 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...

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,...
Alessio De Sio ZTE

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...
Claus Risager

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...
strategic architecture

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...
Jazz band

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

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...
Ole Lola

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...
blockchain

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...
AI and Surveillance at Work

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...

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...

Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future

By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships   1. Change> Transform Your Approach to Transformation 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...

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...

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...

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...
YOUNG LEADER IMAGE

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...
learning voice

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....
Fingerprint Binary Microchip

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....

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...

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...

TOP READS OF THE WEEK

Person using laptop with Ai Content Generator. Interaction with the Ai assistant to solve some tasks more easily.

AI Search Revolutionises Brand Discovery – Here’s How to Get Noticed

By Claire Snook In 2025, AI-powered search is poised to become the foundation of how brands connect with their customers. Advances like ChatGPT, SearchGPT, as well as the strategic pivot from traditional search engines toward...
Many small ideas lead to big innovation. Lawbreaker concept

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...

LATEST FROM OUR COLUMNISTS

Andy Palmer

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Selling Bold Ideas in the Boardroom

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Have you ever wondered how to sell a bold idea in the boardroom? Not just an idea different from what your...

This will close in 15 seconds