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Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond

GreenBiz

Companies demonstrated the depth of their commitment and a certain financial resilience by shifting production lines to manufacture hand sanitizer and masks or forgoing government aid to demonstrate social solidarity. Brands have reimagined design and distribution of products in a context of lower sales volumes and digital acceleration.

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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability

GreenBiz

Crowds, clouds, collaborators and competitors: Digital ecosystems are uniting disparate participants to target bigger and better outcomes. While the ability of ecosystems to enhance value creation and amplify impact is well-regarded in business, their potential to drive public good is quickly coming into focus.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

They can have a profound positive impact across economic, social and environmental value creation. The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. .

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White paper presents circular value chain solutions for textiles

Envirotec Magazine

Recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA has published a new white paper titled ‘Transforming Textiles: 4 Key Beliefs to Enable Textiles Circularity’. The paper addresses the current state of the textiles industry, strategies and technologies needed for the transition to a circular value chain.

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A.I. Requires Repositioning Your Workforce Rather Than Laying Them Off

Daniel Burrus

one of the 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, has started out simple. The fact of the matter is as the Internet and digital technologies evolve, so do cybercriminals. Artificial Intelligence In Manufacturing. Artificial intelligence (A.I.), and M.L.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

In 1983, I identified digital disruption as one of twenty technology-driven Hard Trends that would increasingly shape the future at an exponential rate, and at the same time drive economic value creation. If your career, business, and industry has already been digitally disrupted, plan on it being disrupted again. .

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A $500 Billion+ Market Opportunity for Real Impact: Three Ways Corporations Can Engage in Social Procurement

James Militzer

They are incorporating it into their procurement practices in three key ways: Direct Spend: This corporate spending involves sourcing both commodities for use in manufacturing new products, and manufactured goods to be sold to consumers. And over 50% see social procurement as a pathway to achieve larger company-wide ESG targets. .