Ineffective meetings cost businesses $541 billion a year globally in lost productivity and employee time, according to Doodle’s 2019 State of the Meeting report. And according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, as much as 85% of employee time may be wasted on inefficient collaboration. But the real …
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Email marketing innovation When it comes to marketing tools emails tend to stand out. While other tools come and go, emails are a part of marketing for over 40 years now. And during that time, they’ve consistently evolved to follow technological developments and marketing trends. Even after social media, emails …
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. By Adam Burden, North America lead of technology and chief software engineer of Accenture. John Lennon and Paul McCartney are two of the greatest songwriters in music’s history. Without their talents, pop music as we know …
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Often, even the best ideas don’t make it from the winner’s circle of an innovation competition to the shop floor. Before they are adopted, they must find internal champions. Yet as important as this step is, most innovation initiatives tend to gloss over it, assuming that the brilliance of the …
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Nike has officially unveiled its latest LeBron James Innovation Center, set to sit at the center of Nike’s Beaverton, Oregon campus. The center also houses the new Nike Sport Research Lab (NSRL). The NSRL will feature the world’s largest motion-capture installation with 400 cameras, 97 force plates as well as …
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For more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a societal challenge: It affects us all, but it affects us differently. Like other societal challenges, such as the climate crisis, economic inequality, and racial injustice, it magnifies old and new social problems and brutally exposes weaknesses in our systems. …
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The push to reduce greenhouse emissions from animal-based agriculture has been knocking at the farm gate for some time. Food production accounts for an estimated 16-27 per cent of global greenhouse gas emission within the farm-gate, according to a 2019 report from the International Panel on Climate Change, with another …
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Above: Strawberry fields at Lepp Farms in Abbotsford, BC. These strawberries are available at Lepp Farm Market in season. Lepp Farms started growing strawberries six years ago when two important things happened. Our son Mike committed to running our farm operations, allowing us to expand and diversify our crops. Subsequently, …
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Jorg Greuel/Getty Images We’ve made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. Amidst the gloom and doom of the early months of the Covid-19 crisis, something surprisingly uplifting started to happen: Companies began …
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Scott Lenet is President of Touchdown Ventures. Innovation is a hot topic, and it can be confusing for large corporations. With terms like incubator, accelerator and corporate venturing frequently mentioned, but rarely defined, the menu of innovation options can be overwhelming. A useful framework for understanding corporate innovation distinguishes what “innovation …
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