Amid rising demand from customers, employees and investors, companies have moved sustainability to the top of their agendas. In Issue III, we explore how leaders are transforming their industries today to avoid disaster.
In volatile, fast-changing, and complex situations, received wisdom and expertise can become a liability that’s hard to overcome. Here are seven ways to change your mindset.
The healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors are experiencing radical evolution through artificial intelligence, driving competition, and improving clinical outcomes. IMD’s AI Maturity Index highlights effective approaches from industry frontrunners like Bayer, Medtronic, and AstraZeneca, write Tomoko Yokoi and Michael Wade.
Forward-thinking leaders proactively shape their external environment, turn uncertainty into certainty, and create substantial value in the process.
In his final days as co-CEO of On, Marc Maurer gave participants of IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance a glimpse behind the scenes of the messy – and often uncomfortable – journey of building a global sportswear brand.
BCG’s Martin Reeves traces the messy human journey behind one of tech’s most contagious features – and what it reveals about innovation, behavior, and unintended consequences.
Loh Chin Hua, CEO of Keppel, tells Jean-François Manzoni how bold restructuring, strategic discipline, and a long-term vision transformed an industrial conglomerate into a global asset manager
Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most far-reaching technology ever created. Google’s AI business strategist Gopi Kallayil recommends asking yourself three key questions regarding your business strategy and identifies three AI capabilities you need to make it happen.
Today’s workforce often includes a mix of permanent employees, freelancers, and outside contractors – but even organizations with mostly external workforces or highly autonomous workforces need proximity to succeed over the long term. Here are four strategies to ensure these disparate elements connect.
Companies often fall into the trap of equating a cool-looking innovation lab with value-creating innovation output, investing in trendy office spaces, speaking in buzzwords, and hiring charismatic innovation leaders. However, these surface-level changes fail to address the fundamental challenges of fostering innovation within a corporate environment.
In an increasingly uncertain world, how do companies plan for the long term? Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of future readiness, and read on for insights from future-ready companies.
Leaders are often unaware of their value-critical stakeholders, inhibiting progress on strategic issues. The solution is to get rid of free riders and predators and build more involvement in the value-creation cycle by the stakeholders that matter. Here’s how it’s done.
In today’s fast-paced business environment, an intelligent organizational sensory system is your key to staying ahead. This system integrates tools, processes, and practices to monitor your environment, capture signals of change, and turn them into actionable insights.
A new report explores how industrial AI is helping organizations realize their sustainability goals. With new data from over 200 senior executives and expert insights - from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, ETH AI Center, TU Berlin and more - the report provides an in-depth analysis of the current and projected impact of industrial AI accelerating transformative change.
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