Africa
President of Gabon: Africa’s Role in the 4th Industrial Revolution
Africa faces a “bold revolution,” in which some of our biggest challenges can become unique opportunities.
As global leaders met at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, the focus was on how the Fourth Industrial Revolution can deliver jobs and economic prosperity for all people across the world.
collaboration
Why Collaborating Outside Your Bubble Fosters Innovation
Asking the right question — and expanding the circle of collaboration — can often lead to real innovation.
Think how the 20th century would have been different if Thomas Edison had set out to brighten dimly lit homes and illuminate industry by improving a valve on a gas lighting fixture. The conventional solutions of the time for brighter, better and safer lighting were in a “bubble” of information, technology and expertise all centered on the delivery of gas.
Electrification Software
Kati Suominen: 3 Ways to Navigate the Ambiguity of Growth
Amid global economic uncertainty, here are three levers for topline growth.
Not a day goes by without news about a slowdown in the world economy. Yet paradoxically, a recent Pricewaterhouse survey revealed that while 70 percent of global executives said it is more difficult to find profitable growth opportunities now than 10 years ago, 74 percent also said there are more profitable growth opportunities now a decade ago.
VR
Grayson Brulte: 4 Ways Virtual Reality Is Shaping the Future of Work
We are just scratching the surface of virtual reality. From doctors to auto technicians to astronauts, here are some ways VR technology is helping to reimagine the future of work.
Over time, ideas change and innovation takes us to new, unexplored territories that unleash the kind of creativity that creates new dynamic businesses and reimagines old ones. Today, we are potentially on the cusp of such a change — driven by virtual reality (VR).
Education
How Data Can Drive the Road to Better Education
disease-control
Jason Rao and David Silbey: We Need a Whole of Society Approach to Global Health Security
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Jason Rao of the American Society for Microbiology and David Silbey of Cornell University discuss the importance of collaboration between governments and NGOs in containing a disease outbreak.
Electrification Software Darwinism
Charles-Edouard Bouée: Does Your Company Have a Plan D?
There is no opting out of digital transformation. Successful companies carve out new strategic options for themselves — others fail.
The future is not what it used to be. Digitization has reached us all and changed everything. Consumers, clients and indeed the whole economy have become faster paced, less predictable, and more volatile. The number of digital options open to businesses is growing exponentially, with no sign of letting up.
Electrification Software Energy
Ganesh Bell: How the Digital Revolution Can Power Future Growth
To meet the world’s growing demand for energy, the power sector needs to transform into a digital industry.
Renewable Power
Jérôme Pécresse and Debora Frodl: GE and the Renewable Energy Era
How GE will super-charge clean energy innovation in the decade ahead.
Electrification Software Energy
Marco Annunziata: Oil Prices Got You Down?
The sharp decline in oil prices has placed them squarely at the center of the global economic debate. Many see low oil prices as evidence that the world economy has lost steam. Stock markets jump anxiously at every piece of news coming from the oil market.
The market story is important. But more important is that the oil and gas market is undergoing a deeper and more complex transformation, one that will have powerful repercussions over the coming decades.