How Amazon Fuels Deflation
While central banks puzzle about the lack of inflation, the e-commerce giant’s swift move to slash prices at Whole Foods shows how business is keeping prices down.
Technology
A Manual for Self-Disruption
Leaders can encourage their organizations to construct their own futures by empowering internal iconoclasts and establishing a sense of urgency.
Looking for a Better IT Project Manager? Try the Hybrid Model
As business and technology strategies become more integrated, companies need an IT manager who can watch the bottom line and communicate, as well as do the hard coding.
s+b BlogsUniqlo Addresses Retail Woes with High-Tech Vending Machines
A small but growing number of retailers and restaurants are experimenting with selling their wares through unstaffed kiosks, often linked to apps and e-payment systems.
Get Ready for the Silicon Military
As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers.
s+b BlogsHow to Make Innovation Strategy Work
Aligning technological investments with business goals and understanding how they affect real users helps ensure a greater return on investment.
The Next Big Technology Could Be Nanomaterials
Discoveries surrounding a new class of impossibly small and improbably powerful compounds could reshape the materials industry — and the world around us.
s+b BlogsWhat Billy Joel Can Teach Us About AI
It’s too simplistic to view advances in automation as inspiring either sadness or euphoria.
s+b BlogsChipotle Takes Another Hit to Reputation, Stock Price
This month’s closure of a burrito shop for possible norovirus shows how vulnerable a company’s image is in the digital age.
The Sore Loser and the Supercomputer
Chess champion Garry Kasparov replays his historic loss to Deep Blue to illuminate the potential of AI.
Making Seamless E-Payments a Reality
The financial world is about to learn a new kind of proficiency with “frictionless” digital transactions.
A Strategist’s Guide to the Digital Grocery
As Amazon and Walmart disrupt the grocery industry, smart retailers can compete by plying their wares in a technologically enabled way.
s+b BlogsNext-Level Cybersecurity: Preparing for Internet Shutdown
Companies around the world need a comprehensive plan in place to ensure that critical business can still get done in the case of a prolonged Web outage.
s+b BlogsHappy 50th Birthday, ATM
Banking’s greatest technological innovation offers timeless lessons in improving customer experience.
The New Class of Digital Leaders
Faced with organizational challenges, more and more companies are hiring an executive to manage their digital transformation.
s+b BlogsGoogle’s Next Search Is for Housing
With home costs skyrocketing in large metropolitan areas, companies that want to attract talent may have to get into the real-estate business.
Innovation from Farm to Table
Investment in agricultural R&D is essential to feeding the world’s growing population.
s+b BlogsA Jobless Recovery in Coal
Hiring people is often a last resort, even when an industry is growing.
The Next Wave of Innovation in the Chemicals Industry
Discoveries in materials science could lead to a new era of growth. Who is best positioned to benefit — incumbent companies or upstarts?
s+b BlogsThe Nine Traits of Highly Effective CMOs
Tips for long-term survival in what has become a short-term role.
Howard Yu Disrupts Disruptive Innovation
The IMD professor describes how the accelerating pace of technological change puts new pressures on established companies.
