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Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Today’s workforce spans five generations, with millennials and Generation Z together accounting for over 60% of workers globally — a share projected to reach 74% by 2030. Yet there’s a widening intergenerational gap in business leadership. While age diversity in the workplace is growing, decision-making power increasingly rests with

Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026, Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum accepted awards recognizing the company’s AI solutions as part of the WEF’s MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) program — for the second time. The distinction highlighted two of the company’s AI-enabled applications:

Is 36 months too long for a new-product cycle? It was for Kraft Heinz. So, starting with a pilot project, it was able to cut time to market to just six months by redesigning how people worked. Today, units throughout the company are applying that model’s step-by-step approach to change and are seeing measurable improvements

Annalisa Grassano/Ikon Images In early 2025, more than 212,000 women left the U.S. workforce following a rise in return-to-office mandates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Among mothers with young children, workforce participation dropped nearly three percentage points in just six months, according to the BLS. Behind those numbers is a larger

On today’s episode of Me, Myself, and AI, host Sam Ransbotham talks with Alice Xiang, global head of AI governance at Sony and lead research scientist for AI ethics at Sony AI, about what it actually takes to put responsible artificial intelligence into practice at scale. Alice shares how Sony moved early on AI ethics

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR In professional service firms, quiet excellence once defined leadership. A partner earned influence through expertise, loyalty, and discretion. But in an era of high transparency, where every meeting can be replayed, every comment rated, and every decision scrutinized online, competence alone no longer sustains trust. Visibility has become the new test of

The Eight Core Principles of Strategic Innovation Gina O’Connor and Christopher R. Meyer Key Insight: Mature companies that build a strategic innovation capability can systematically renew their product portfolios to sustain long-term growth. Top Takeaways: Many companies start off with a bang: the launch of an exciting breakthrough product or service. But as time passes,

We are firmly in the digital age, awash in data generated on every surface and in every layer of every business. Yet, despite decades of investment in technology, time, and effort, many organizations are still not seeing meaningful returns. A global survey of over 4,200 business and technology leaders conducted by research firm Gartner in

Matt Chinworth/theispot.com The Research The research behind this article was conducted in partnership with the Innovation Research Interchange, a professional association of R&D leaders in large industrial companies. More than 640 interviews were conducted over the three phases of the research program. In Phase 1, 12 project teams from 10 companies were followed for five

Matt Chinworth Venture studios are emerging as a compelling — if resource-intensive — way for organizations to maximize value creation through innovation. Pioneered by organizations such as Google, the studio model offers a structured and systematic approach to venture creation inside an organization. But before adopting it, leaders must ask: Is a studio the right