In a world where self-driving cars are the norm, will fewer people want to buy a car? Japanese automaker Nissan is looking ahead to this and other scenarios in the future of transportation.…Read More
In a world where self-driving cars are the norm, will fewer people want to buy a car? Japanese automaker Nissan is looking ahead to this and other scenarios in the future of transportation.…Read More
Even though Colgate has global brand recognition and broader penetration than Coke, it still takes competition from digital start-ups seriously. Jenny Gomez, director of global strategic innovation, spoke about the company’s strategy for staying innovative.…Read More
APIs have been strictly part of IT’s “inside game,” providing the glue for data and software integration within the enterprise. No more. Tyson Whitten of CA Technologies offers five key points that C-level leadership needs to understand.…Read More
In this guest post, Cameron van Orman of CA Technologies explains why companies should invest energy in building “a complete, well-taxonomized API catalog.”…Read More
How Technology is Transforming Market Research Take a typical adult to an ice cream parlor, says Richard Thorogood, and before making a choice they’ll weigh as many factors as there are flavors. “Well, I kind of want strawberry,” they’ll think, “but I always get strawberry, so maybe I should…Read More
At the Mack Institute Fall Conference, speakers shared valuable insight about how their respective businesses are trying to maintaining customer satisfaction while responding to the disruption created by software and technology.…Read More
Increasing competition, global markets and customers who are in control define today’s business environment. Many organizations are missing opportunities to gain a deeper perspective of their customers and business, be the first to act on trends and most importantly, seize new revenues and cut costs.…Read More
In an article for FedEx Small Business, Mack Institute corporate partner Michelle Proctor emphasizes the importance of choosing the right approach to innovation challenges. Proctor hones in on two styles in particular: incremental innovation, and revolutionary innovation.…Read More
A corporate partner post by Connie Smallwood of CA Technologies discusses corporate innovation, and how the entrepreneurial-minded benefit from working for a large company.…Read More
Guest post by Sid Kumar (WG’09), Global Head of Customer Lifecycle Solutions at CA Technologies Today, CA Technologies announced that we have joined the Wharton School’s Mack Institute as a corporate partner. There are many reasons that this is a natural fit for us, but chief among them is the…Read More
The Mack Institute’s recent “How Far Beyond the Pill?” workshop examined pharma’s urgent need to develop “Beyond the Pill Solutions” (BTPS) in order to confront the many challenges currently facing the industry. In Part I, guest author Prashant Nikam (WG’11) of Sanofi Oncology enumerates these challenges and defines their solution…Read More
Guest post by Prashant Nikam (WG’11), Global Marketing Lead, Mozobil and Legacy Brands at Sanofi Oncology Over the past year, I have been working with Professor George Day on researching a topic that is very dear to me: “Beyond the Pill Solutions” (BTPS) and what they mean for the pharmaceutical…Read More
Our longtime corporate partners at Teradata are frequent and enthusiastic participants at our yearly conferences. One attendee, Monica Mullen, recently shared her key takeaways from our recent Fall Conference. Her post originally appeared in the company’s Industry Experts blog. I had the pleasure of talking with Mr. J. David Power…Read More
Mack Institute events don’t typically include references to farming techniques, but the Fall Conference 2013 was a rare exception. In this video summary of his presentation, Takeshi Yamaguchi describes how Nissan’s approach to advanced technical development resembles the cultivation of an orchard. Instead of a linear approach, Nissan achieves successful…Read More