As work gets disconnected from jobs and the gig economy gains momentum, what will offices of the future look like? With an augmented workforce, many of your co-workers may not even be human. Jeff Schwartz and Tom Friedman talk about skillfully navigating these uncharted waters.
Does your team work best as a relay or a basketball team? What do you do when you inherit a dysfunctional team? Do you have the right people in the right seat? How are your team’s goals being set and met? Ajit Kambil answers these questions as he talks about trust, teamwork, and collaboration.
Do our digital breadcrumbs truly portray who we really are? In the mad rush to collect big data, are companies overlooking the fact that not all of what they have might be relevant? John Lucker, Susan Hogan, and Trevor Bischoff share insights on targeted messaging, data integrity, and much more.
Quantum computing, which can perform complex calculations exponentially faster than normal computers, has the potential to create great wealth by reimagining how problems are solved. But this huge computational power, if not managed responsibly, can have serious consequences, warns David Schatsky.
As a new leader, having the right team in place can make or break your position. Ajit Kambil spoke with Tanya Ott on the trade-off between time and talent, and how to handle your incoming team—from glass breakers to Eeyores.
What do government workers need more of? Time. And that’s exactly what artificial intelligence promises to offer. Our research suggests that cognitive technologies can help agencies free up billions of labor hours per year, to be spent doing real work, not drudge work.
Six degrees of separation applies to the opioid crisis as well—most people are only a few steps away from someone who’s struggled with addiction. Kevin Bingham discusses the massive amount state and federal agencies are spending to combat this epidemic, as well as the resulting innovative solutions.
The growing wellness industry attests to people’s need to destress and slow down. Finding the balance between roots and shoots—between inward reflection and outward exploration—can be the key here, say Maggie Wooll and Duleesha Kulasooriya.
By 2025, private cars might become obsolete. With growing congestion along with innovative transport options, mobility as a service—using public and private transportation seamlessly and on demand—is gradually becoming a reality, says Warwick Goodall.
Executives who take on a new C-level role often find themselves working 80-hour work weeks, making burnout pretty much inevitable. Based on his experience in over 250 labs with new CFOs, Ajit Kambil discusses the five things new C-suite executives can do to take back their time.
New technologies present some incredible opportunities, but could also bring threats. Tanya Ott and Bill Briggs discuss the ethical issues and potential social impacts around the technologies of tomorrow.
As massive, complex organisms, cities somehow manage to deliver services, move products and goods, protect us, educate us, inspire us. But how can they do it smarter? Jim Gusczca and Bill Eggers talk about how urban planners can harness the wisdom of the crowd to deliver better services.
What does it take for a leader to truly encourage diversity in the organization? And does diversity go beyond just talent? Juliet Bourke spoke with Tanya Ott on outdated leadership models, global mega-trends, and the six traits of inclusive leadership.
When people lack the tools and resources needed to operate effectively, they fall prey to the scarcity mind-set. If left unchecked, scarcity can have deleterious effects on performance. The good news is, leaders have an opportunity to help prevent scarcity before it happens.
The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is upon us. Brenna Sniderman spoke with Tanya Ott on how systems—connected via the Internet—can now analyze data, and learn from and adjust to their environment to inform future activity.
The decline of retail theater; the Prime Effect; the mismatch of consumer expectations and reality.... Rod Sides and Tanya Ott discuss this holiday season’s consumer shopping trends, as described by the 2016 Holiday Retail Survey.
Can blockchain become as sexy as virtual reality or the Internet of Things? And of trillions of signals potentially being processed, how do we isolate the few that are meaningful? Bill Briggs discusses 2016’s tech trends with Tanya Ott.
How can video games help organizations develop better leaders? Cary Harr and Roxanne Splitt discuss how games, or simulations, encourage employees to examine their unconscious biases and internalize behaviors to become more inclusive leaders.
Almost every company expects digital disruption in some form or another—but how are they actually preparing for it? Perhaps surprisingly, this preparation may need to be more cultural than technological. Tanya Ott spoke with Gerald Kane about companies’ differing levels of digital maturity as they compete in a rapidly changing world.
Losing customer data to hackers can be costly and embarrassing, but losing intellectual property to cyber thieves could threaten a company’s future. Tanya Ott talks to Emily Mossburg and Ash Raghavan about the risks facing business today.
Health care consumers are looking for the same quality of service that they get in other industries, while doctors find they increasingly need business skills: leadership, marketing, communication. Harry Greenspun discusses how physicians and medical schools are responding to these different pressures in the current health care environment.
Even though healthcare.gov was initially called a public policy disaster, it ended up being one of the best things to happen to a government unable to keep up with evolving citizen expectations. Bill Eggers spoke with Tanya Ott on how government agencies must change their traditional culture to a digital, innovative one to continue to successfully deliver services.
It’s not uncommon for top companies to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to recruit C-suite execs—but the failure rate is high. Ajit Kambil spoke with Tanya Ott about the 90-day myth, and the three main areas newly hired C-level executives need to focus on to be successful.
Water pipes in most US cities are more than 50 years old, and some even double that age—leading to major health concerns and enormous costs from main breaks. Tanya Ott spoke with Patricia Buckley about the water infrastructure’s “hidden crisis,” and from where the money to prevent it will come.