Search results for “ai first” Liveblog: Francesca Bria on How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable By Adam Tinworth We need to rework our urban systems if we are to survive the climate crisis. And, as Francesca Bria explains, ethical use of data could be our greatest weapon… Nathalie Nahai: Persuasive Design and Ethical Business By Adam Tinworth The old way of business has no appeal to younger generations. Dark patterns and unethical design are turn-offs to them. It's time to reshape your business around values and purpose. If you’re waiting for the metaverse to arrive, you’ll be disappointed By Adam Tinworth Behind the buzzword, there's a much more interesting dynamic at work. And if you understand that, you can make better plans for our virtual future. COP26: the shape of sustainable business emerges By Adam Tinworth The first agreements from the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow suggest the sustainability carrot of incentives will soon be replaced by the legal stick. The supply shock, its cause, and the shift to sustainability By Matthias Schrader The chip crisis is the first climate disaster-related shortage on a civilization-wide, global scale. But it's just the tip of a massive supply shock wave. Sustainability is the new digital By Adam Tinworth As the digital revolution defined the last 30 years, the climate crisis will define business for the next 30. Supply chain scarcity: a new reality for every business By Adam Tinworth The pandemic and events from the Ever Given to freak weather have exposed weakness in the global supply chain. How should we respond? The digital retail revolution is speeding up By Martin Recke Digital retail is going to be the dominant model very soon, and direct-to-consumer (DTC) is booming. It's a perfect storm for CPG companies. The case for growth vs. sustainability By Martin Recke Growth and sustainability certainly are conflicting priorities, but are they mutually exclusive? Or is there such a thing as sustainable growth? Subprime Attention Crisis, or a trillion dollar industry up in the air By Martin Recke Attention is the most valuable asset today, and the way it is traded is at a crossroads similar to the subprime mortgage crisis that led to an economic collapse. Payal Arora: How do we put the human in the global value chains? By Adam Tinworth The pandemic has proved we need to rethink the global value chains. But how can we do that until we acknowledge the systemic problems with the old approach? Sohail Inayatullah on envisaging the post-pandemic future By Adam Tinworth You don't predict the post-pandemic future - you create it. That was Sohail Inayatullah's thesis as our latest guest on What's NEXT, gave us the tools we need to build the narrative of a better future. #BlackLivesMatter, beautiful distancing and niche entertainment By NEXT Conference Every week we take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last. Sohail Inayatullah: New narratives for a world in change In our fifth episode of What’s NEXT, Sohail Inayatullah explored how changing your narrative of the present opens the door to a series of alternative futures, giving you the opportunity to choose the ones you want – and work towards it. Planning in an age of uncertainty By Adam Tinworth Uncertainty is uncomfortable — there's no escaping it. But we need to learn to manage it, even if that management looks very different to what you're familiar with. Uncertainty and the end of business as usual By Martin Recke Uncertainty has become the norm. That's the end of business as usual. Sustainability and the mid-life crisis of capitalism By Martin Recke Capitalism in its current shape lacks sustainability, first and foremost in the business sense. We are in the midst of a major reassessment of risk. Purpose and profit are the twin hearts of sustainable business By Adam Tinworth Today's digital workers crave more than position and profit - they want purpose in their work. And building your strategy around business with purpose may just be a competitive advantage in the battle for talent. Christian Mio Loclair: how art helps us understand AI and our own humanity By Adam Tinworth As AI gets better and better at more things, and deep learning starts creating art - what still makes us human? Does the answer lie in a child’s artwork? Why innovation fails By Adam Tinworth It sometimes feels like business dances to the drumbeat of innovation — but the vast majority of innovation projects fail. Why is that? Systems Thinking: our guard against unintended consequences By Adam Tinworth We live in a world of complex, inter-dependent systems, and any thinking that fails to include that runs the risk of summoning the law of unintended consequences. Redefining “company” may be the key to sustainable business agility By Adam Tinworth Let's face it - the business structures of the past no longer serve us well. We need to go back to the roots of what a "company" is — and that will guide us to new solutions. A short walk through our first book By Martin Recke Here at NEXT, we are somehow obsessed with the near future, culminating in the question: What's next? We've published a book, printed in German and as an e-book in both English and German, to spread some insights worth spreading. prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 34 next
