Megatrends: Powering a New Automation Age (Vijay Chandar)

Aging populations and lower technology costs are propelling companies to invest more in productivity-boosting automation. What could this mean for your portfolio?   Since well before the Industrial Revolution, technology-forward companies have looked to...

Be aware: Don’t destroy value (by Bettina Büchel, IMD)

“Strategic planning processes that do not match the pace of technological changes require a different approach. Imagine a great growth opportunity has just sprung up for your company during the course of the year and outside of the budgeting process. But no...

The Never-Ending War on Fake Reviews (By Simon Parkin)

“Tedious and helpless prose” is how, in 1881, a writer for The Atlanticdescribed “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman’s first volume of poetry. It was a view shared by other contemporary critics. One called the book “intensely vulgar, nay, absolutely beastly,” before...