In these times of major challenges wherever you turn, I have been wondering why challenge-driven innovation is not used to a larger extent. Challenge-driven innovation is when you drive innovation by issuing a challenge – often in the form of a contest - in some area. The goal of challenge-driven innovation is to create transformational change in a specific area, usually something greatly needed to deal with environmental or societal issues. So the key word
As a part of the research for a current project around what will attract talent to a city or region in the future, I had a look at the future of jobs. It will probably not come as a surprise to anybody that robotics and automation will change the future of the job market. Research shows that as many as 50% of the jobs we are doing today will not exist in 20 years. So, what kinds of jobs will be lost? Robotics and automation easily produces a picture of a robot doing a certain job
Recently, I was reminded of "The Why" by an industry colleague. "The Why" relates to a speech in 2009 by Simon Sinek, who has also written the book "Start with The Why". In short, his research showed that successful companies and endeavors (Apple, Dr King, the Wright brothers) had one thing in common. The started with why instead of what. Why do you do what you do, not what