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...
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...
Covid-19, Stress, Self-Esteem, Values, and Psychological Well-being: How to Assess Risks of Becoming Depressed,...
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Dr. Salvador Garcia Sanchez
A few years back, we published several books dealing with Stress, Self -Esteem, Health and...
Managing Risk in a Modular Economy
By Kamil J. Mizgier
The business world is constantly changing, at a pace which humans are not able to catch up with. The premise of...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Can Accounting Save the World and Your Company?
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
As we recorded this podcast, the World Economic Forum convened...
The Cyber-Organisation and the New World of Work: Advocating a twin governance...
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
This paper explores the concept of the cyber-organisation and, in particular, the so-called cyber-enterprise...
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...
Why Focus Matters to Your Leadership: Understanding Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make mistakes. In such...
10 Ways Marketing Is Being Transformed by The Advance Of AI
By Hamilton Mann and Joerg Niessing
If you are one of those who has reservations about online systems that track your browsing behaviour, you might...
Leaders Who Hit The Numbers
By John Sutherland
Leadership is seen in the heat of the moment in the world of work, not in theory during an off-site course. Leadership...
Building the Data Foundations of Supply Chain Decarbonisation
By Hervé Legenvre
The journey towards the decarbonisation of supply chains requires harmonised and reliable information on emissions as well as industry collaborations by not-for-profit...
Demographic Changes in the Workplace
By Andrés Hatum
The global ageing population and the new generation of young professionals entering the market are changing the shape of the workplace. Companies...
Accelerating Europe’s Path to Reinvention
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk and Laura Wright
Despite the challenging business environment, European executives are optimistic about their organization's future growth. By embracing Total...
How the Next Wave of Innovators will Change the Fabric of the World
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier and Vedrana Savic
The next wave of innovation will see products and services combining technology from across the digital, physical and biological...
New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity
By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo
PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
Impact Investing – What is new now?
By Peter Lorange Chairman Lorange Network and S. Ugelstad Invest President Emeritus, IMD, Lausanne
Intro
Today, there is ever-increasing awareness of the need to factor environmental...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
Why Guanxi Matters in Business Relationships with China
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
Business relationships between China and Europe have existed for quite some time and with the a renewed focus...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Connecting the Unconnected in the Automotive Industry Four Ecosystems that are Reshaping Automotive Industry...
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
Connectivity is a defining feature of digitalisation. As companies increase their use of digital technologies in their products and...
Inner agility for health and wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
We look at agile ways of working this month, including an excerpt from episode 7 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast with global...
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...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan and Regina Maruca
Accenture’s recent survey of 700 C-suite executives of large businesses in Europe reveals confidence that new global...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
Six Sigma Cirrhosis: How an Overreliance on Improvement Makes Organisations Ill
By Christopher Surdak
There was a time when delivering “perfection” at a low price was like a business miracle that customers get a “high” from...
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...
By Christopher Surdak
In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...
The Path Forward to a Unified Risk Framework
By Kamil J. Mizgier
The closure of a terminal in China at the world’s third-busiest container port is one of the last examples of supply...
From Great to Gone
By Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski
New consumers demand a new breed of innovations in the products and services they are using. Below, Peter Lorange...
[Podcast] Christmas reflections
A 'back to the roots' episode recorded in the childhood home in Motherwell, Scotland as Dr. MacGregor reflects on the seven episodes of the...
Open Minds Build Innovative Societies
By David De Cremer And Alain Van Hiel
Being marked as an innovative country is crucial in how able and savvy one’s nation is considered...
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...
Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience
How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent
By Avi Liran
As the war for talent intensifies, creating a Delightful Employee...
Chief Wellbeing Officer: Learning to Live
By Steven MacGregor
With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning....
Making China Your Top Priority
By Gong Li, Henry Egan and Andrew Sleigh
Companies have never had such an array of options when it comes to investment opportunities in the...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
Take the Window Seat (Outbound)
By Steven P. MacGregor
As we near the year-end, a fairly typical professional reflection may include the number of business trips and particularly flights we...
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs: Moving with Purpose
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Have you ever noticed how successful entrepreneurs seem to be driven by a kind of inspiration? But where do...
Digital Communication and Public Concern During Natural Disasters.
By Federico Platania, Celina Toscano, and Fernanda Arreola
While it makes sense that governments should use social media for effective communication with the public in...
Happy New Year: MacGregor on Executive Health
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For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
Germany, the Giant with the Feet of Clay
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
Many people argue that Germany’s model could be the key to strengthening other economies in the EU, however, a...
“Net better Off?” Why companies should scale new, tech-based flexible work practices
By Jacques Bughin, Sybille Berjoan and Yuhui Xiong
By 2022, Shopify, a well-known global next-generation e-commerce platform had secured a perennial flexible work arrangement scheme...
Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
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Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen
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New demands are emerging in...
Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
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