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.
We click on the ‘like’ button seven billion times a day, but the tech pioneers who came up with the idea never saw its true potential. The best innovations are messy, serendipitous, and deeply social, say Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson
Michael Watkins & Brenda Steinberg share strategies in this I by IMD podcast to turn post-summer blues into leadership and personal growth.
As AI grows more capable, HR leaders must carefully weigh its impact on team dynamics before treating it as just another teammate, says IMD’s Ginka Toegel.
Mercuria’s CFO, Guillaume Vermersch, discusses how technology, sustainability, and strategic agility influence contemporary finance in international energy and commodities trading.
Global shifts in AI, trade, and aging demand bold strategy. Hear Maria Vassalou’s insights on how leaders must rethink the future to stay ahead.
Climate change is making areas “uninsurable.” Businesses must act now—integrate climate risk into strategy or face escalating financial losses.
Earn the right to be heard by blending credibility with relatability, meeting audiences where they are, and building rapport through shared stories.
Generative AI (GenAI) promises massive transformation, but only if strategy and execution align. After studying 100 GenAI implementations across sectors, we’ve found that most firms fall into four GenAI personas. Each reflects a different balance of risk, ambition, speed, and control. Your firm doesn’t need to be all things, but it does need to know what it is.
Rather than choosing between crisis mode and future planning, leaders should learn to focus simultaneously on both short and long-term goals.
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.
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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