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1 October 2021, ZDNet, US, Phanish Puranam & Julien Clément  PHD'18Jun: Agile leadership styles have been crucial to helping companies meet their digital transformation targets, but the indiscriminate use of agility is helping no one. Written by Mark...

1 October 2021, Clear Purpose (Medium), US, Ben Bensaou: How to Wire Innovation Into A Company’s DNA What It Teaches: The author of Built to Innovate emphasizes that every company needs to involve all employees in both an execution engine and an innovating engine....

30 September 2021, Tech Register, UK: If established firms want to be truly innovative they need to be able to balance the twin engines of execution and innovation and create a culture where everyone focuses on these two imperatives simultaneously. This involves...

27 September 2021, Forbes France (In French), France: L’Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) a publié son indice mondial de l’innovation 2021 qui évalue les niveaux d’innovation dans 126 économies selon plus de 80 critères allant de l’analyse...

24 September 2021, Medium, US: Microsoft and INSEAD business school have partnered to provide a free AI business school. It is available here. Their approach to AI Strategy is summarized here, with a summary recap here. Key elements of their approach are: Start with...

20 September 2021, Business AM Live, Nigeria, David Dubois: There is a hydraulic relationship between domestic happiness and exposure to social media content opposite to our views. In developed economies such as the United States, the current era is marked by...

How to prepare for the inevitable by  François Candelon, Rodolphe Charme di Carlo, Midas De Bondt, and  Theodoros Evgeniou From the Magazine (September–October 2021) Summary.   For years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal...

17 September 2021, Forbes India, India, Alixandra Barasch: The immersive benefits of photo taking are not as clear when the main purpose is to share the photos on social media – as opposed to taking them for memories’ sake Image: Shutterstock In 1999, the first...

15 September 2021, Forbes India, India, Marcel Corstjens: New research suggests that, instead of aiming for big breakthroughs, large companies should focus on incremental but meaningful improvements Small consumer-goods firms spend much less on R&D than the...

9 September 2021, BFM89.9, Malaysia, Antonio Fatas: El Salvador recently became the first country to adopt bitcoin as its national currency, replacing the dollar. Professor Antonio Fatas, Professor of Economics, INSEAD discusses the readiness of bitcoin as legal...