Amplify Your Thinking
The monthly Amplify journal provides a foundation of unbiased research and opinion to help you form your organization’s own opinion, practices, and policies on the business and technology topics that matter most. From themes such as fending off cyberattacks to creating a positive culture for effective teams, and the AI-driven tools you might not know about yet, Amplify advances the thinking of our global network of academics, thought leaders, business strategists and technologists, giving you the insight that helps you anticipate change, adapt quickly, and leverage new business opportunities.
This issue of Amplify, Part II in a two-part series, will deepen your understanding of digital innovation for climate action. It includes three in-depth case studies, insights into managing the environmental impact of data centers through collective action, and an examination of how digital innovation can facilitate sustainability transformations of an entire region.
In this issue:
- Charting a Sustainable Future with Digital-First Solutions — Opening Statement
- Building a Sustainable Future in Construction: Integrating Digital Innovations & Lifecycle Assessment
- Leveraging AI to Create a Circular Built Environment
- Digital Twins & Sustainability: A Pathway to Building Positive-Energy Districts
- Establishing Collective Environmental Self-Regulation in Fragmented Digital Spaces
- Germany’s Energy Innovation Hub: A Catalyst for Climate Neutrality
This issue of Amplify, Part I in a two-part series, offers a set of insightful articles from leading researchers and practitioners working on digital innovation for climate action. They share a common message: digital innovation can be the key to accelerated climate action if managed correctly.
With the exponential development of digital innovations such as AI, blockchain, and the Metaverse, new opportunities arise to turn climate ambition into climate action.
In this issue:
- The Twin Transition: Digital Innovation & Climate Action — Opening Statement
- 4 Priorities for Advancing the Twin Transition
- Using Collaborative Crowdsourcing to Advance Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy
- A Self-Regulating Power Grid: Germany’s Digital Transformation
- Digital Solutions Are Crucial to Scaling E-Mobility
- Harnessing AI Butterfly Effect for Sustainability: Digital Boost or Recipe for Disaster?
- Digital Talent: The Key to the Climate Transition
In this issue, our second on "purpose", we focus on how leaders who already have purpose hold onto it when times get tough. We also examine how purpose can be actively reset in the midst of multiple crises. The seven articles in this issue bring to light counterintuitive aspects of purposing (as a verb).
In this issue:
- Scaffolding Purpose in Times of Polycrisis — Opening Statement
- Please Say No! How Empowered Refusal Upholds Purpose
- Reclaiming Purpose: The Art & Science of Asking Good Questions
- Developing Corporate Purpose Through Deliberation
- Purpose & the Professions
- Expect the Unexpected: Organizational Purpose as Enabler of Serendipitous Impact
- Purpose-Driven Systems Change
- 1,000 Days of Existential Purpose
The focus of this Amplify issue is detecting and connecting purpose at various levels across the lifespan of purpose-driven leadership. The main takeaway is that having and holding purpose helps leaders shift from surviving to thriving in an inequitable world.
In this issue:
- Scaffolding Purpose: An Infrastructure for Humanity — Opening Statement
- Developing Purpose-Driven Leaders
- The Inner Leader’s Journey to Scaffolding Purpose & Authentic Leadership
- How Calling & Faith Amplify Purpose: A Personal Reflection
- The Power of Purpose
- Contagious Purpose: How Vulnerability & Diversity Challenge Ableism
- The Purpose-in-Practice Community: Bang, Not Fizz!
- From Profit to Purpose: Architecting the Purpose Economy
This issue of Amplify explores the complex relationship between climate change and agriculture, highlighting the urgent need for innovative solutions to ensure food security and sustainable farming practices.
In this issue:
- Cultivating Resilience: Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture — Opening Statement
- Climate Change Adaptation: Perceptions & Actions of Smallholder Farmers
- AI Can Help Farmers Meet the Innovation Adoption Challenge
- An Integrated Approach to Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- Leveraging AI to Foster Climate-Resilient & Sustainable Agriculture
- Digitally Enabling Viable Agri-Food Supply Chain Ecosystems for Climate Change Adaptations
