Business Innovation
Apple’s Retail Model: Its Most Innovative Product?
Apple’s reputation as an innovator is tied to transformational products like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad that create value. But, with Q3 earnings at $7.7 billion…
Innovating While Staying Compliant
Regulations tend to put a stranglehold on innovating, setting up roadblocks that require more work, more capital investment, and more time. However, innovation leadership entails…
It’s Not All In The Medicine: The Human Factor Of Drug Development
In the pharmaceutical industry, the odds of successfully bringing a drug compound from discovery, through all phases of development, to submission and ultimately approval are…
Avoiding The Landmines Of Process Redesign
“Be ready to handle twice as much throughput and activity in the next 3 years with roughly the same number of people.” That was the mandate…
Process Mapping In One Day? Yes!
Ever tried to read an 8-foot-long process map and wondered how much productivity was lost during the creation and if it would really make a…
Heat Map: Food Product Supply Chains Learn to Stay Hungry
Even in the face of sudden, sweeping changes and profound uncertainty, businesses that adapt quickly can not only survive, but thrive.
Numbers: The New Not-So-Normal
The first half of 2020 was interesting, to say the least. How did events affect economies around the world?
The Ticker: Eat Out to Help Out
How the British government got citizens to dine out again.
The Ticker: Food Fight
Platform-to-consumer delivery services turn up the heat on traditional restaurants.
Building Robust Innovation Capabilities for a Major Food Co-op to Improve Short-term Financial Performance
One of the largest French agricultural co-ops is the result of the integration of several dozens of companies that merged to form as a leader…
AI Will Alter Every Job
If you’re reading this, your job is going to be altered because of AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning. Ginni Rometty, IBM’s executive chairman and…
Design Thinking Develops The Soft Skills Of The Future: Are You Ready?
If asked about the key skills of the future, would you and your employees point to skills they used in pre-school classrooms? Would you say:…