Future of technology
If you don’t use technology to disrupt the market, then someone else will.
Any innovation journey starts with unchartered territories. To stay ahead of competitors, businesses must apply technologies to the challenges and opportunities they encounter.
Technology has always been a key lever in a company’s arsenal, but new consumer behaviors and macro trends mandate tech-driven innovation as part of any development strategy. Looking to understand metaverse, blockchain, AI, quantum technologies or other new and disruptive tech? If you’re considering the impact of new and emerging tech on your business strategy, these insights help executives anticipate trends and assess their potential.
By understanding how to select, adopt and deploy innovation in a fluid manner, businesses can navigate a route to a sustainable and profitable future.
“If Marty McFly travelled back from the future with a technology almanac in his back pocket – what would it say?”
Preparing for the next wave of technology
TechnoVision: Seven key trends that you need to understand
The technological universe continues to expand, augment, and adapt at a phenomenal rate. Physical and virtual worlds merge, robots teach themselves, and the quantum realm looms ever nearer. Meanwhile, the time that organizations have to adjust to this accelerated technological development is compressed. All of this can be daunting: to know what to do, where to go, and how to adapt, all for the benefit of the organization. This is where TechnoVision shines. Designed as an accessible, well-structured framework, it describes 37 technology trends, to help you respond successfully. There’s something in each trend for everybody, whether you are an IT expert looking for new angles, or a tech-curious businessperson wanting to understand the buzz.
How to prepare your organization for a quantum advantage now
Almost a quarter of organizations are working (or planning to work) on leveraging quantum technologies, with expectations of at least one major commercial application within the next 3–5 years.
Intelligent industry is the next generation of digital transformation
The future of industry is intelligent and sustainable. To stay ahead, leading industrial companies must transform and contribute to the world’s sustainability agenda, rethink their entire value chain and look at the market with a new lens.
Are you quantum curious?
Is your organization ready to explore the real quantum advantage? Why do companies need to understand quantum technologies? Which quantum technologies will matter to your business? What lessons can we learn from industry leaders?
Business model innovation
Future of fan engagement
Within the highest division of the hockey system, any competitive advantage on or off the ice can make the difference between a successful campaign and an early start to the off-season. In Sweden, the Malmö Redhawks have made the decision to lead the way in terms of innovation. While the team has consistently had one of the smallest budgets in the league, Malmö has created an identity built around substantial success, including recently making the playoffs three years in a row in spite of the high degree of competitiveness that defines SHL matches. As part of its latest hunt for a leg up on its rivals, the Redhawks turned to digital technology in search of a way to use its data more effectively.
Sustainable approach to battery-cell manufacturing
Acceleration the production capacity of low-carbon batteries in Southern Europe through the creation of a first 16GWh Gigafactory.
How do you bridge the gap between idea generation and implementation?
We are entering a new era of tech-led innovation, including quantum technologies. So, how will your business get there?
The store of tomorrow
CornerShop, a space for testing out pioneering tech innovations and figuring what will work in a commercial setting based on customer feedback.
Product and service innovation
Dijon: smart city cuts the mustard
Digital technology has ushered in a new era of development within the business world. However, it is no longer limited to manufacturing plants and offices. Continuous innovation has seen digital solutions increasingly impact daily life and change the way cities are viewed. The French city of Dijon saw an exciting opportunity in this development, envisioning a future in which all urban equipment, maintenance services, security systems, and transit are connected and function in synchronization upon a single network. To pursue this vision, Dijon launched an ambitious smart city project that included all 23 municipalities of the city’s metropole, covering a population of no less than 260,000.
Using AI to protect whales
A self-learning AI solution that can more effectively identify matches between images of sperm whale tails and make it easier to draw a picture of migration going back decades.
An intelligent data platform to resolve global food shortages
Global demand for food is anticipated to increase by 60% by 2050. Today, a great percentage of the world’s population is fed by small-scale farmers, using traditional methods.
Metaverse: beyond the hype
The metaverse is one of the most hyped concepts in technology right now – and with good reason. If your business is going to ensure it can serve its customers, consumers and connect to its employees in the future, then it must start investigating the metaverse.
Applied innovation
Creating tomorrow together, so you get the future you want
Innovation creates opportunity. It unleashes human energy.
And with the right technologies harnessed in the right way, it moves us somewhere better, because change doesn’t happen with ideas alone.
This is how we help.
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Being like water
From battling unanticipated pandemics to rising geopolitical tensions and onto rapid climate change, executives face an ever-growing list of issues – and that’s before they even consider the day-to-day requirements of meeting new customer demands and supporting business growth. Dealing with this broad range of concerns is a significant test. By taking advantage of innovation, executives can embrace these challenges and help their businesses to develop – but only if technologies become part of a wider ecosystem of change and are implemented wisely.
Startups are the catalyst for sustainable innovation
The market dynamics are changing fast and corporate, as well as public bodies, must find the most appropriate way to leverage the power of startups ecosystems to create sustainable value.
Innovation may be hard, but it’s not impossible
In a rapidly changing technology-enabled world, finding innovative solutions to business challenges isn’t just an option for back-room discussion, it’s a minimum ‘table stakes’ gambit for all C-suite leaders.
Why most innovations fail to scale and what to do about it
Although companies are investing millions in R&D, innovation centers, and external partnerships, few seem able to achieve scale in areas such as smart factories, artificial intelligence, agile, or automation.