During the eight months of the pandemic, we basically saw a lot of rules around how work gets done, be broken, or fall by the wayside, People worked in radically different ways, whether that’s crossing functional silos, whether that’s teaming,…

For companies, especially those in consumer-facing sectors, end-to-end supply chain emissions are much higher than the direct emissions from their own operations. By implementing a net-zero supply chain, companies can amplify their climate impact, enable emission reductions in hard-to-abate sectors,…

Innovation should focus on simplifying services and designing products around the needs , lifestyles and ability to pay of patinets and end users Read more in BCG  Reimagining Global Health After the Coronavirus By Johanna Benesty, Abhishek Gopalka, Mathieu Lamiaux,…

There are signs that people may be increasingly receptive to robotic help, preferring, at least hypothetically, to be picked up by a self-driving taxi or have their food delivered via robot, to reduce their risk of catching the virus. Read…

Fever monitoring has developed something of a bad reputation under COVID-19. While having a fever is one of COVID-19’s telltale symptoms, temperature checks capture only a moment in time. But a new report suggests that body temperature can play a…

A lot can happen in a year—especially one with as much change and potential global impact as 2021 will have. Here are four ways our collective efforts to grapple with climate change will impact society and the economy in 2021.…

From fungal handbags to algae t-shirts, the makers of these leather and cotton alternatives are on a mission to reduce fast fashion’s environmental impact. Read more in raconteur 5 textile innovations fighting fast fashion By Sam Haddad was last modified:…

Tony’s Chocolonely started as a small social enterprise that sources cacao to ensure farmers a ‘living wage’ and has now expanded to a fast-growing international company, whose sourcing principles have been followed by the largest Dutch supermarket chain. Read more…

There are numerous well-known orchestrators managing platform-based ecosystems engaged in social media, e-commerce, transportation, banking, and even mining. These include tech leaders Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, as well as longer-established companies, such as Maersk and Cisco Read more in…

Near the peak of the first coronavirus wave in New York, Amazon closed a Whole Foods store in Manhattan to foot traffic and ran it exclusively as a dark store for online fulfillment. Read more in Retail Wire  Is Whole…

The days of lazily strolling through store aisles are over, at least for a while. And nowhere is this trend more clear than in Walmart’s new store design, which the company is unveiling for the first time today. The design…

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya says women and people of color look at technology from the outside—and have felt the negative impacts.”What I came to learn is that the people who are leading the data, the scientists and mathematicians and journalists and…

Among the quarter of the UK who said they’d found it harder to comply with the rules recently, 27% of men said boredom was a key reason, compared with 19% of women. Read more in conversation  Second lockdown left women…

There are many brands online that people don’t want to block. We asked over 5,000 people around the world to tell us about the brands whose content they actively sought out, then analyzed what those brands did. Read more in…

At the end of last year more than 500 million people used mobile browsers that block ads by default . The only way brands will be able to meaningfully interact with consumers in the future is by building trust through…

“If you start looking at the relationship between humans and animals from the perspective that Indigenous people themselves may have had, it reveals a rich new universe,” says Matthew Betts, an archaeologist with the Canadian Museum of History. Read more…

Since 2003, Jassy has devoted his full attention to web services. That might seem far afield from Amazon’s iconic success as a storefront for physical goods of every imaginable sort. Read more in Fast Company Who is Andy Jassy? 6…