innovation

This report addresses critical deficits in connectivity and the freedom to communicate in the Western Hemisphere.

Exploring ways to manage organizations in the face of continual disruption – the constant onslaught of new offerings or business models that can challenge the dominance of core businesses.

We live in the age of computers, but few of us know who invented them. Because most of the pioneers were part of collaborative teams working in wartime secrecy, they aren’t as famous as an Edison, Bell or Morse.

This report maps the effects of the digital revolution on the business environment, the nature of work and the role of leadership in navigating the organization through the constantly changing landscape.

Recently, Aspen Institute President and CEO, Walter Isaacson, welcomed over 160 Society of Fellows members to kick off the Institute’s summer programming. In celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the SOF, Isaacson thanked Fellows for their contributions, assured them that the Institute is currently in a “strong” state, and then launched into a discussion of the power of collaborative creativity, a topic of his recent research.

This report describes the developments in information and communications technologies and then explores, particularly, innovations in payment systems, and alternative currencies.

This report concludes that by integrating the core of an organization with the edge, where innovation is more likely to happen, we can create dynamic, learning networks.