Deborah Perry Piscione discusses her life and latest book with TechCrunch journalist, Andrew Keen. Piscione is an author, philanthropist, publisher and commentator who moved to Silicon Valley with her family in 2006 and became fascinated with the Valley culture for success. In addition to starting Alley to the Valley that brings together influential women for…
The idea for Kickstarter originated in 2002 and by 2009 it became an Internet success, according to co-founder, Yancey Strickler, in this interview with Engadget Editor, Myriam Joire. Using crowd social media, the online venture brings together funders with projects through an online system of pledges. Strickler discusses the evolution of the company that started…
New consumers around the world want products. Companies need to figure out how to leverage their global footprint in order to capture new market shares. Foreign business in countries such as Denmark may be small, but their exporting activity is in excess of 40% of the country’s GDP. The US no longer dominates the world…
Threadless started in 2010 in Chicago as both an online and brick & mortar business that retails custom-printed merchandise. Customers vote on artist designs that are posted in a weekly competition. The ten selected designs are printed on the various products, returning cash and company gift cards to the artists based upon the number of…
Wim Bastiaanssen is the founder of Water Watch, a consulting company that produces exploitable information on agricultural conditions using information gathered from satellites that is processed through proprietary analytical algorithms in order to measure water consumption and then can be transmitted to on the ground mobile communication devices for exploitation. The company conducts survey work…
At this year’s Davos World Economic Forum, Nestlé CEO, Paul Bulcke, advises that government and government officials need to think longer-term. The policy-making activity appears to be disconnected from economic activity. Sustainability issues, such as water usage, are important to the Nestlé business model and for society in general. Through innovation and careful attention to…
Innovation drives company, country and regional success. In this twenty minute clip of the Global Innovation Index 2013, co-producers INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization explain the findings and recent changes that have improved the information gleaned from the study. Now in its fifth year, the study investigates the integration of innovation into country…
Will Beacham, Deputy Editor and London Bureau Chief for the weekly industry title ICIS Chemical Business, discusses AkzoNobel’s innovation strategy with CEO, Hans Wijers, and CIO, Graeme Armstrong. They evoke the three long term trends that underlie the AkzoNobel strategy: demographics, globalization, and sustainability. Looking to benefit both society in general and its customers in…
In a recent TED talk, Pankaj Ghemawat of the IESE business school in Barcelona, Spain, explains that globalization does not mean that the world is just one market. He argues that the notion that economies are open is really a myth and that fears…
Harvard University professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin study competitiveness. In a recent interview with The Economist, Porter discusses what can be done rapidly to increase US productivity. The entire article in The Economist suggests that the research results from surveys and conversations…