Technology Innovation to Accelerate Growth was the theme of a recent innovation workshop and tour of MIT’s Innovation...

Introduction In today's ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations that utilize data and analytics to drive...

The challenge we are facing is three-fold. First, we need to continue providing reliable energy to homes, hospitals, schools and businesses to meet increasing societal demand and boost productivity and prosperity.

The pace of change in tech and particularly AI as well as funding seem to be the top challenges early-stage companies face. For startups in particular, the pace of innovation can be exhausting, while large companies seem to have an advantage where they can skip generational shifts, so long as they are sufficiently established.

One challenge to technological innovation is creating a culture of learning and adaptability. A company’s competitive advantage can quickly become a commodity, which means innovation is critical for sustained success.

For healthcare technologies, one challenge is access to the right end-users, essential support personnel and subject matter experts. Many startups will create solutions without engaging the right stakeholders, resulting in technologies that are suboptimal, or worse, they solve a problem that may not exist.

A case history on an organization’s evolution – from retail to a health and wellness company. Leveraging technology to commercialize and optimize the customer journey, Sleep Number advanced omnichannel digitization to continue meeting the needs of their customers.

“An excellent forum for discovery of like communities to accelerate ideas, insights and real-world case studies.”

The world is changing at a faster and faster pace (at least it feels like it). There are always endless problems to solve, and innovations to offer solutions. How do we manage innovation that solves the targeted problem?