The shift to performance-based models represents the future of the services industry, but few companies are positioned to take advantage of the transformation partnerships needed to achieve their goals. More
Business Innovation Partner Insights
Tomorrow Comes Today – A Look at the Next Decade of Software Product Engineering
Join Techonomy Roundtable – Balancing Profits and Purpose: Can It Be Done?
Companies today increasingly say they serve more than just shareholders. They assert a new stakeholder mindset that includes factoring in employees, customers, and especially the community. But are they telling the truth? What are the tradeoffs? What choices do companies make when profits and purpose collide? Corporate veterans and a pragmatic investor square off. The […] More
AOL and Yahoo: More Media Lives than the Kardashians
Can a private equity firm do better than a telecom as an owner? Don’t throw out your AOL or Yahoo email addresses just yet. More
Business Government The Pandemic
Economist Joseph Stiglitz Cheers Biden Spending
The Nobel laureate weighs in on stimulus, growth and inequality. More
Why Insurtech Firm Root Tanked After IPOing
Amidst an otherwise febrile fintech market, Root has gone underground, falling from a $6 billion IPO market cap to $3 billion. In one important sense, Root’s public humiliation is healthy. More
Awaiting Stripe’s Massive IPO
Five years ago, when the founders appeared on the cover of Inc. magazine, Stripe was estimated to process $20 billion in annual payments. Last year that figure was estimated at $350 billion. More
Purpose Mindset is the Light to Overcome this Extraordinary Pandemic Year
We have become reasonably adept at describing the need for change “out there” in the world. But we are not so good at talking about the change that needs to happen within us. Today, more than ever, we need to stand for something. More
Business Innovation The Pandemic
One Year After the Great Reset: Same Storm, Different Boats
Some countries, industries, organizations, and people basically shrugged off the pandemic. Others may never fully recover. The good news: We have our start date for a new mindset. More
Business Tech & Society The Pandemic
A Practical Guide to Networking in the New Normal
Virtual connections can be hard to maintain and networking can feel almost impossible in our new digital world, but with these pieces of advice, you can make it work for you. More
Business Innovation Leadership
Why Digital Projects Fail – And How to Keep them On Track
By spotting and solving these five key issues early on, your organization can improve the odds of succeeding with its digital projects. More
Reddit, Robinhood, and Wall Street – Watch the Conversation
A band of investment outsiders rallied behind some obscure stocks and caught some of the world’s largest hedge funds napping. With technology enabling coordinated investment and free stock trades, is this the new normal? Will Congress and the Biden Administration see the need to intervene? Watch the lively discussion with fintech, Wall Street, and Reddit experts James Ledbetter, Alexis Goldstein, and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin. More
Business Sustainable Development Goals
The Role of the Business in Solving “Wicked Problems”
As the public sector worldwide continues to struggle to solve economic, environmental and social challenges, the private sector is now being called upon to fill the gap. Companies are going to have to be essential stakeholders if we are ever going to solve our most wicked problems. More
Analytics & Data Business Community Insights
How Should Businesses Use Data in a “Post-Truth” World?
Why would a CEO reject information that she needs to make critical business decisions? And how do those of us who value data get past such rejection? More
Business Innovation Partner Insights
BMC’s CTO on 2020’s “Quest” for Corporate Transformation
Digital transformation accelerated this year in a way nobody could have predicted. What does it mean to be a “tech-driven” company in this era, and why should becoming an Autonomous Digital Enterprise be the goal? More
Desperately Seeking Talent: Technology Association Report Underscores Shortage of Skilled Workers
Three in four tech companies face difficulty finding candidates with the right skills and abilities. A triple cocktail is moving the dial right now on how to address the school-to- work pipeline, creating vast opportunities for smart educators and smart companies to step up, work to help people, and lessen the friction between schools and business. More
Business Government Healthcare Techonomy Events The Pandemic
Health + Wealth of America—Day Three: On the Ground in Muskegon, Learning at Ericsson, and 1-800-FLOWERS’ Pandemic Journey
Day three of Health + Wealth of America kicked off with “Voices of American Resilience,” moderated by Esther Dyson, executive founder of The Way to Wellville, a nonprofit project devoted to defining and testing models for producing community health. More
Business Government Healthcare Techonomy Events
Health + Wealth Day Two: Summers, Case, Scaramucci, & Krawcheck
To kick off day two of Health + Wealth of America, Lawrence H. Summers, president emeritus of Harvard, was interviewed by Bob Diamond, CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital. “This will be a moment historians in 2200 points back to when they look at our era,” Summers said, suggesting 2020 could be remembered like 1914, 1940, 1929 or 1776 because of how much dramatic change this year has ushered in. More
Business Healthcare Tech & Society Techonomy Events
“Healing America in a Time of Divides”
Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi immigrant who has spent many years working both on issues of immigration and gender equality, will appear at the session whose name I’ve quoted in my headline. She’s writing a book about how to overcome America’s divides—not only of right and left, Republican and Democrat, but men and women, rich and poor, privileged and disenfranchised. More
Business Healthcare Innovation Techonomy Events
Building Health+Wealth in America
Now is the time to take an urgent and holistic look at where the country is headed. We think of both “health” and “wealth” in a broad sense–what will make the nation and its people healthier, and: what should we mean by “wealth” in an age cursed by deep inequality? More
Business Innovation Leadership Partner Insights
Today’s Leaders Must Reinvest to Reinvent
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated three years of digital and cultural transformation into three months. To deploy a transformation strategy with speed and scale, there are three key areas organizations must focus on. More
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