Prism articles
Issue 1, 2008
Black Swan events - Should you be concerned?
Philip W. Beall, Rodolfo Guzman, David Lyon, Geoff Stevens and Eleonor Kramarz
The discovery of black swans in Western Australia was a shock for scientists. Today those unexpected birds have become a symbol for the disruption of the bell curve that is used for most forms of ...
Innovation for top-line growth through product lifecycle management
Per I. Nilsson, Daniel Roos and Charles Boulton
Innovation is the holy grail of today’s business. But most companies are still dissatisfied with their innovation approach. They wonder whether they spend too little or too much on innovation. In ...
Private Equity: Strategies for creating value in a difficult market
Matthew Walsh, Nathan Shklyar and Petter Kilefors
The credit crunch and the subprime crisis have changed the landscape for private investors. But that doesn’t have to mean the end of the road for private equity. Good private equity firms have kept ...
Biomimicry: from curiosity to commercial reality
Cindy Dekeyser, Peter J. Nieuwenhuizen and Edouard Croufer
"Nature imitates art", argued Oscar Wilde, but today’s scientists imitate nature. This article examines the remarkable field of biomimicry, in which nature’s ingenious solutions to problems that have ...
"The customer is the determining factor"
Interview conducted by Peter Nieuwenhuizen and Victor Hanenburg
In this exclusive interview, Harri Kerminen, president and chief executive of Kemira, provides an insight into the participatory culture of the Finnish global chemicals group and reveals his thoughts ...