A struggling firm reaches for artificial intelligence as it once reached for innovation. Neither saves a business the sums no longer favour. Lip-Bu Tan took charge of...
Tag - Reinvention
Stories of strategic transformation and bold new directions
The Last Word: One more client might buy some time, one more initiative may create some new energy, but neither is enough to save a company. Ask IT companies what is...
The Last Word: Reinvention is the ability to turn learning into a different path. It means changing what you do, and how you create value. I read an interview with...
Fewer Europeans are eating out and margins are thin. Their way back runs through theatre, delivery and a smaller, cheaper table than before. Guido Zöllick got his tax...
The Last Word: Creativity is not the ability to summon ideas out of nowhere, but to recognise a real possibility before it becomes obvious. We tend to imagine creativity...
Brussels is pouring billions into digitising Europe’s water networks, promising fewer leaks and cleaner data, even as hackers test them too. In Bytom, a mining...
The Last Word: Organisations that matter will not ask whether AI replaces people. They will ask what people can now become capable of doing. The simplest story about AI...
The Last Word: Heat turns assumptions into evidence. The firms that wait for normal to return are confusing relief with genuine readiness. I am writing this from London...
Conferences spent decades selling the big idea. Now, the business has learned that what people pay for is access, and is rebuilding to suit. When Eric Newcomer hosted...
The Last Word: Before we start deploying AI in schools, perhaps we should learn more about what, exactly, we want to achieve by doing so. The most dangerous phrase in...
The Last Word: The smartest technology acts before a crisis. Prevention is the next frontier of reinvention, changing the timing of action. Prince William did something...
Use of the term ‘we’re implementing AI’ is now ubiquitous across much of the corporate world. Increasingly, it is also becoming meaningless. Andy Jassy, president and...
A partnership between bikes and trains ought to be one of transport’s natural pairings. In many parts of Europe that is no longer the case. A prominent railway...