AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It. An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems. Why New Technologies Don’t Transform Incumbents. Older companies tend to change one thing at a time. Challengers win by rethinking the basics of how work gets done.

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.

by Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye

 

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Why New Technologies Don’t Transform Incumbents

Older companies tend to change one thing at a time. Challengers win by rethinking the basics of how work gets done.

by Sangeet Paul Choudary

 

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How Designing with Disability in Mind Sparks Innovation

Treating accessibility as an innovation catalyst—not a market niche—can unlock surprising social and commercial value.

by Vijay Govindarajan, Kinya Seto, Tojin T. Eapen, and Christine Moorman

 

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