Bridging the Silos to Better Manage Risks
By Kamil J. Mizgier
In every industry sector, companies are striving to overcome organisational hurdles to enhance their efficiency and productivity. Within the risk management...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation
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Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Get Creativity and Innovation into the Boardroom
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Many Directors have positive intentions to leverage the experiences gained...
Brain – Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation
By Hamilton Mann, Cornelia Walther and Michael Platt
This paper introduces the concept of "brain-machine synchrony," exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI and Advanced Analytics – Delivering Value for Directors...
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With the fast-paced democratisation of AI and advanced analytics, problem-solving...
There Will Be No Human-Centered AI without Humane Economics.
By Hamilton Mann
Digital technologies, while enhancing efficiencies, can exacerbate environmental degradation. AI, despite its potential to support sustainable development, is not exempt from these...
Let’s Rock and Roll: How to Innovate Sustainably in Bureaucratic Organizations?
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Pezziardi
Bureaucracy is important. It makes our life comfortable, because it guarantees that rules will be in place to ensure...
Sorting Out the AI Gold Rush? Ten Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
By Jacques Bughin and Duco Sickinghe
As the AI boom continues to accelerate, investors are keenly eyeing the generative AI sector for potential breakthroughs. Jacques...
What Makes a Business a Masterpiece?
By Peter Lorange
No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in...
What if We Told you that Women in Sports have Broken the Glass Ceiling?
By Bernard Goudard and Fernanda Arreola
We have often wondered if there are examples of businesses that have overcome the social challenge of providing equal...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering the Company Secretariat
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Managing an ever-growing agenda, Company Secretaries today face a plethora...
Europe Must Invest in Technology, Talent, and Trust to Realise the Potential of Generative...
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Jack Azagury and Dominic King
Could generative AI breathe new life into the old continent? Europe’s technology deficit with North America is...
It’s Too Late to Become a Technological Leader. Just Become a Shoveller!
By Fernanda Arreola and Robert Pickering
Taking as an example the cloud industry, we help break down the different types of services and innovations that...
The Business Imperative of Female Leadership in AI
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AI has emerged as a transformative force that is reshaping businesses, economies, and societies worldwide. Business leaders in 2024 are at...
Towards the Building of Organisational Resilience: Uncovering the Key Features
By Simon L. Dolan, Adnane Belout, Jean-Luc Cerdin, and Javier Casademunt1
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Organisational resilience refers to an organisation's ability to adapt, respond, and recover from disruptive...
Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour
By Avi Liran
While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer
David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
The Concept of Enduring Happiness as a Panacea to Work/Life Goals
By Simon L. Dolan (Alias Dr. Simon)
As the human need for constant happiness increases, it becomes commodified – as a goal to be achieved...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: A Balancing Act – Where Should EMEIA Boards Focus...
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Managing an ever-growing agenda, boards today face a plethora of...
How AI Liberates the Transition to a Skill-Based Organisation
By Jacques Bughin and Jeroen Van Hautte
What do companies as diverse as Booking.com, Accenture, Revolut, GSK, Walmart, or Unilever have in common? Answer: they have...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Increasing Productivity Through Inclusion
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Diversity and inclusion are not evenly distributed throughout an...
Unsexy? Think About it Again! Delivering on Startup Potential Through Operations
By Fernanda Arreola and Dr. Michel Philippart
Operational excellence is critical to entrepreneurial success, but it is too often ignored by aspiring entrepreneurs. In this article,...
Leading the Gen AI Revolution: Building Workers’ Trust to Reinvent Work in Europe
By Tim Good, Andrew Young and Mamta Kapur
Europe is currently undergoing a generative AI-driven transformation in the world of work. While leaders are confident...
Digital for Good: AI fit for progress
Technology, says Hamilton Mann, is not in itself sustainable or positive – it depends on how we choose to develop and apply it.
In this...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: My Experience of Working with a Board for the...
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Boards can be complex structures, which can be overwhelming for...
Strategising GenAI: Open Source or Proprietary LLMs?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are in the process of defining a future where the battlegrounds of business innovation and...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How can Boards Convert Sustainability from a Wish to...
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Boards have an essential role to play. When companies face...
How to Change the World with Low-Tech Innovation?
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems explore how small, accessible changes can lead to significant impacts, while providing a practical...
The EU AI Act: Trustworthy or Reckless AI?
By Jacques Bughin
Alongside the lightning-paced advancements in AI, a number of ethical quandaries have emerged, evidenced for example by deep fakes and incidences of...
Smells Like Patchouli!
By Fernanda Arreola and Johann VITREY-TARDIF
Innovation is essential, yet not always easy. This article, based on lessons from the perfume industry, discusses how to...
Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader
By Adrian Furnham
There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness
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Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: U.S. and U.K. – Two Countries Separated by Common...
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The playwright George Bernard Shaw once noted that England and...
Everybody Loves … Nvidia
By Dr. Jacques Bughin
Semiconductors are positioned at the forefront of innovation and digital transformation. With companies like Nvidia leading the charge and the semiconductor...
A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...
By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini
In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: What do Board Members Need to Think About to...
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Climate change has transitioned from distant environmental concern to pressing...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards
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The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...
You Did Not Fail! You Are Just Rebounding!
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Entrepreneurs make economies turn and prosper. They create a large proportion of new jobs, take economies out of recessions,...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Can Accounting Save the World and Your Company?
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As we recorded this podcast, the World Economic Forum convened...
Introducing the Concept of Artificial Integrity: The Path for the Future of AI
By Hamilton Mann
The concept of "artificial integrity" proposes a critical framework for the future of AI. It emphasises the need to architect AI systems...
Innovation, the Art of Abolishing Distance: Building the ATTRACT DeepTech Ecosystem
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DeepTech technologies have significant effects on the economy and are an avenue to solve many problems humanity faces. However, the vitality of...
Revisiting HR Challenges at the Dawn of 2024
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A new year is always an appropriate time to stop and evaluate progress in any given endeavour...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – What Questions do Directors Need to Ask?
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There is much discussion about AI, especially after the launch...
Edge Computing in Europe: A Key Driver of Business Innovation
By Ram Ramalingam, Teresa Tung, Nitu Kaushal & Shalabh Kumar Singh
Edge is an essential component of the cloud computing model and has the potential...
The Passive-Aggressive Individual
By Adrian Furnham
You must have met a few or maybe you are working with one right now. Who are passive-aggressive individuals and what makes...
Why the Ethical Use of AI Matters for Your Career
By Jack McGuire, David De Cremer, Leander De Schutter, and Yorck Hesselbarth
In the contemporary digital era, innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) are profoundly transforming...
The Key Success Factors of a Powerful AI Factory
By Jacques Bughin
More and more companies are leveraging data and deep machine learning algorithms, leading to the emergence of the "AI factory" model. As...
A Practical Guide to Kick-starting Your Cyber Supply Chain Risk Programme
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The digitalisation of global supply chains is unstoppable and there is no doubt about the upside potential it brings in...
Bitcoin is 15: Towards Adulthood or Speculative Bubble?
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Globally, more than 15,000 businesses accept Bitcoin. To date, high flyers such as Microsoft, AT&T, Starbucks, Gucci, and Shopify accept Bitcoin in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Leading an Effective Board
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What does good look like? What does it mean to...
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