In his 2015 bookGamechangers, innovation expert Peter Fisk provides 100 case studies of businesses that have won the game, changed the game or even invented their own games via new strategies and innovations – from global giants to small start-ups. So what makes a game changer?

Which skills do parents encourage their kids to prioritise? Maths? Science? Common sense? Actually, new research conducted by Pew suggests that – in America, at least – parents believe ‘soft skills’ like communication and teamwork are the most important.

Miscommunication is a perennial problem in the workplace. Crystal is attempting to rectify this by helping people email with empathy. The service analyses emails and publicly-available data to tell you what a person's like, how they want to be spoken to and what your relationship will be like.

Email is dead – that’s what the tech industry has been saying for the last decade. Yet hundreds of unread messages clutter workers’ inboxes every day. Slack aims to increase productivity by improving communication and transparency across entire businesses. Could this really be the end for email?