The Art of Business: WEF23 Davos Special Edition
by Emek Yeşilyurt, Roberto Pérez Segura, and Jose Luis Carvalho
In an increasingly complex, fragmented world, the existing paradigms and solutions no longer suffice. Data, science, and technology are powerful tools, but looking at business as an art, as well as learning from the arts, can help us bring bolder imaginations to the challenges ahead. Inclusive collaboration is key to solving the issues of a fragmented world. Bringing together perspectives from business, art, policy and technology worlds can create new approaches, perspectives and learnings that can be taken into action to create solutions.
In the Art of Business Forum, on Monday 16th of January, we explored these different perspectives. Starting with gaining a new consciousness, we have explored how arts can contribute to business by bringing agility and creativity but also looking at problems and solutions from a different angle. Exploring art actually may activate actions and reactions to discover solutions, differently. We also looked into how technology can be a complementing strength rather than simply a pure enabler, how humans may need to understand the new distribution of roles in the current market, and perhaps, how they can trust technology to be used in a much wider scale.
We then moved into Climate innovation. How does the concept of Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise enable a sustainable world? How organizations, empowered by multiple human and machine intelligences can contribute to a more sustainable world, and how these intelligences are augmented by the creativity from art and science.
The day on Monday closed with a trip into homecoming, how the sense of belonging may increase purpose in a fragmented world, how politics may need to create a space for art to increase such sentiment and how roots and remembrance may help to ground people, technology, and businesses into the purpose of resolving the world’s biggest challenges.
The Intelligent Enterprise Institute helps business leaders understand the transformative potential of different forms of intelligence and use it for their organizations and life. It provides a platform to inspire and accelerate change, supported in market trends and SAP’s vision to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. By generating new insights and bringing together unheard voices and unique perspectives from leading thinkers and doers of the world, the Intelligent Enterprise Institute aims to foster different qualities in enterprises and their stakeholders alike taking it into action for desirable outcomes.
