Mix and Deliver: The Next Step for Drinks Apps? Over the past few years, an explosion in technology-driven delivery options for consumer goods and services has been disrupting traditional distribution methods. Millennials, for example, want their brands of choice on demand, digitally enabled, and tailored to their specific requirements. This new on-demand reality is now poised to affect one of the most arcane and complex distribution ecosystems in the business: the alcoholic beverages industry.
by Christopher A.H. Vollmer and Bart Sayer

Radical Accountability. Social media and data analytics have made it easier than ever before to track and monitor the behavior of an enterprise. As it turns out, many people care what companies do, especially when they can see how these actions affect their lives. But most companies are not prepared for the behavior changes that the trend of radical transparency will require of them.
by Juliette Powell

The Data-Driven Optimist. Using dozens of sources — many of them extremely obscure — economist Max Roser has generated a wide trove of information, some of it seemingly unconnected. He is an optimist: He says his charts, which cover everything from African development to violent death rates, unambiguously depict a world that is evolving for the better.
by Jeffrey Rothfeder