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Product CEOs: Do You Have A Platform Strategy?
The concept of a platform is nothing new, but in the digital era of smart connected products every hardware-centric company needs to urgently work out a platform strategy. Simply put, while a product is something you sell, a platform is infrastructure that enables...
Creating a Culture of Global Innovation
In a world that is becoming more globalized, businesses can no longer afford to operate in silos. With the amount of information that is shared by companies around the world today, thanks to emerging technology platforms like artificial intelligence and the Internet...
Be A Better Listener: 4 Ways To Improve Workplace Communication
When you’re thinking about the tools in your leadership toolbox, what comes to mind when you think about improving and honing your skills? Many of us would consider doing a corporate training or working with an executive coach to improve our executive presence,...
Seven Strategy Questions Every Leader Must Ask
A common struggle organisations face these days is ensuring that their workforce has the right capabilities at all levels to align processes and teams with business strategy to deliver exponential growth. It is the responsibility of leaders to develop a robust...
What It Takes To Be A Great Teammate
I was following the college baseball World Series a few weeks ago because my beloved Michigan Wolverines were in the final against Vanderbilt. While watching one of the games, I learned a powerful lesson about success and teamwork from a 19 year-old college baseball...
The Ocean Cleanup Approach: Focus, Fail, And Forbear
The Ocean Cleanup is designing and building a passive cleanup technology for the offshore environment, The Ocean Cleanup approach: focus, fail, and forbearthe subtropical gyres, the places in the oceans where vast amounts of plastic accumulate and persist. Plastic in...
Ways That Artificial Intelligence Can Enhance Infrastructure
How artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can improve and enhance existing infrastructure was discussed by built environment professionals and data scientists during an ICE workshop over the summer. The event sought to facilitate conversations between...
Planning Applications Can Be Held Up By SuDs Design, Report Finds
Planning applications are twice as likely to be blocked or delayed due to sustainable drainage system (SuDS) design in England than in Wales, according to a new report published today by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Wavin. Planning applications are...
Modular Construction: Threat Or Opportunity?
When Jan Mischke speaks to industry leaders about the benefits of modular construction they usually respond in one of two ways, he said. “They are either optimistic about the future of modular or they are really worried that modular companies are going to eat their...