19 Jun, 2026

The Grumpy Innovator: Why Good Ideas Don’t Always Win

Costas Papaikonomou on disruption, decision-making, and the overlooked power of the obvious. Innovation has become a kind of corporate reflex. When growth slows or markets shift, the instinct is often the same: disrupt, reinvent, transform. But according to Costas Papaikonomou, an innovation expert, entrepreneur, co-founder of Una Terra, and author of The Disruption Fallacy and […]

6 mins read

Marketing Is Moving Beyond the Message

IN PRACTICE | The Cases Shaping Marketing Now What five award-winning campaigns reveal about the future of marketing. At first glance, these examples seem unrelated. Different countries. Different categories. Different audiences. Different objectives. Yet together they reveal something important: Marketing is moving beyond the message. Across this year’s highest-scoring Internationalist Award winners, the most innovative […]

5 mins read

Sunny Sky’s Manos Spanos Discusses Innovation and Technology Amid Marketing’s Many Business Goals… 

Throughout his career, Manos Spanos has been consistently motivated by the intersection of marketing, innovation, and technology—whether working for large multinationals or startups.  Now, as the Chief Commercial Officer of Sunny Sky Products, a leading producer of beverage solutions, he talks about turning bold ideas into realities while offering his perspective on the potential of AI, […]

5 mins read

Pete Blackshaw, an “Urgent Optimist,” Sees the Convergence of Green and Gaming 

Pete Blackshaw operates at the heady nexus of marketing innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial thinking. Throughout his career, Pete has been a marketer at Procter & Gamble and Nestle, an entrepreneur, a digital guru, an author, a data analyst, and a community service leader.  Much of his success is tied to how he often manages to […]

4 mins read