The five most valuable public companies in the US—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon—are all orchestrators of digital ecosystems. This is a strong contrast with ten years ago, when Microsoft was the only digital player alongside four physical giants (Exxon…
Having a strategic mind-set, delivering P&L performance, and having boardroom presence all make for an attractive C-suite candidacy. Is this enough? Read more in strategy business The Four X Factors of Exceptional Leaders By David Reimer, Adam Bryant, and Harry…
As tech winds its way deeper and deeper into our lives, deeper questions arise: How can you trust someone you’ll never see? How can you trust an algorithm that is making thousands of decisions a second of which you aren’t…
Despite Amazon’s ever-tightening grip on the retail industry and consumers’ smartphone-tethered, on-demand purchasing behavior, physical retail still commands nearly 90% of U.S. retail sales. Read more in uschamber 8 Store Trends Poised to Reshape How You Shop By Barbara Thau…
This $65 T-shirt is made by a startup called Unbound Merino, founded in 2016, that creates wool travel clothes that can go weeks without being washed. Read more in Fast Company The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your…
Because it’s essentially one big sheet of ice – the second largest ice sheet in the world in fact. Covering 81% of the island, and 2.3 km thick, it makes Greenland the keeper of roughly 8% of all of Earth’s…
Here are ten ways that AI and machine learning will transform the construction and engineering industries into what we’ll call “smart construction.” Read more in Burrus Smart Construction: How AI and Machine Learning Will Change the Construction Industry By Daniel…
The Japanese word ikigai translates roughly to “to live the realization that one hopes for” or “that which makes life worth living.” It’s a concept that refers to the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, what…
Transforming your government into a data organisation is to automate government processes and augment the citizen touchpoints with artificial intelligence or smart contracts. Read more in vanrijmenam Why the Government of Tomorrow is Also a Data Organisation By Dr Mark van…
Four years ago, Hannah Olson, an ambitious Boston University sophomore, was officially diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease. She required regular antibiotic infusions via a catheter in her arm, as well as some 28 pills per day. Read morte in Fast…
