Disrupting the disruption: 10 Principles for Digital Success
By Chris Outram
These ten principles for success will steer the most digitally ambitious organisations (pure-play or hybrid) safely along on the road to digital...
Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?
By Mark Skilton
The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
Managing Customer Satisfaction Better
By Johannes Habel
Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...
The Key Levers for Sales Transformation Success
By Warren Shiver and Michael Perla
For a sales organisation to reach its “ideal transformational advantage” it needs to pull the right levers in...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Why Focus-Based Leadership is Important to Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
Market Makers… Innovate your market, then innovate your business.
By Peter Fisk
Peter Fisk explores how the next generation of businesses innovate from the future back, and outside in. They start by finding the...
Industry 4.0: How Businesses in Aargau are Mastering Technological Change
Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Change Capability Building
By David Miller and Audra Proctor
The volume and complexity of change that organizations are facing continues to increase, and they cannot risk the negative...
Internationalisation in Online Retailing
By Moritz Hahn and Niccolò Pisani
Online retailing is clearly on the rise. In this article the authors offer a snapshot of the current status...
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...
Structure Follows Strategy – But May not Look Like You Imagined
By John Sutherland
In the world of structural design, one size does not fit all. It pays massive dividends to get the structure fit for...
What We (Think We) Know May Not Be So
How to Get (More of) What You Want in Negotiations
By Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys
The results of empirical research on the performance...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
Impact of Digital on How We Implement Change
By Audra Proctor
No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...
Sharing Business Ownership to Execute Your Strategy
By Felix Barber and Michael Goold
Co-owners sharing business rewards do not need to take on the same mix of responsibilities; instead, to create more...
What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper
By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes
Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...
A Transformation Manifesto
By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun
Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
By Bart Tkaczyk
Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
Senior Team Development for the Unwilling
By John Sutherland
Traditional team work over-emphasises the whole team approach far more than is needed for most practical purposes. In this article, John Sutherland...
Growth Principles from a Decade of Billion-Dollar ‘Startups’
By Josemaria Siota and Luiz Zorzella
How did LinkedIn achieved a 35% revenue growth in 20151, after suffering media earthquakes in the previous months? Some...
Talent Management 2.0: Transformation Powered By People
By Amber Román and Richard Lynch
In “Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take To Create Your Digital 2.0 Business Model,” we discussed our...
The 4 P’s: Saving 25% of Meeting Time
By John Sutherland
Ineffective meetings are the bugbear of many organisations. In this article, John Sutherland, Director of Strategic resource introduces and discusses the 4...
Your Seventh Sense: Beyond Mindfulness
By William Duggan
In this article, Willian Duggan explores the practice of Free Your Mind, a way to turn stress into strategy and to turn...
The Practice Of Strategy
By Carlos Rey Peña and Joan E. Ricart
What is strategy? In this article, the authors view strategy as a discipline that harmonizes business model...
Fads and Fashions in Management
By Adrian Furnham
In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
Behavioral Strategy: Thoughts and Feelings in the Decision-making Process, the Unconscious and the Company’s...
By Claudia Nagel
It is evident that the psychology of the decision-making person – to a certain extent the human factor – plays an important...
Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take to Create Your Digital 2.0 Business...
By Todd Fisher and Richard Lynch A Strategy to Execution planning process focused on Technology Strategy, will raise the TQ (Technology Quotient) of ...
Aargau – The Swiss High-Tech Canton in Hot Pursuit of Silicon Valley
"Hightech Aargau" is a program of the Aargau government to encourage innovation and growth. With that, the canton of Aargau aims to become the...
Reinvention: Critical to Business Success, but not Always Obvious
By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige
By Klaus Heine and Francine Espinoza Petersen
Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
Creating Collaborative Advantage
By John Sutherland
Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...
Innovation Strategy
By Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias
Many top level executives are still hopelessly behind when it comes to designing an effective innovation strategy in the...
Preparing for Uncertainty: How to use Creaction at Work
By Len Schlesinger and Charles Kiefer
In an excerpt from their book, Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future, the authors Len Schlesinger...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
The End of Competitive Advantage
Interview with Rita McGrath
The European Business Review talks to Forbes’ #6 most influential business thinker, Rita McGrath, about innovation, the end of competitive advantage,...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Strategic Principles for Competing in the Digital Age
By Martin Hirt and Paul Willmott
Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Below, Martin...
The Power of Corporate Culture — and How to Harness It
Culture change is hard to do. Just look at Ron Johnson’s attempted transformation of JCPenney in 2012. Or go back a few thousand years...
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
The Internet of things: An Inside Perspective
By R. Richard Asselstine
A data revolution is underway: the Internet of Things is giving a “voice” to billions, even trillions, of objects – connecting...
Are High Growth Firms Really About Profit, or Just Greed?
By Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud
Successful and profitable growth firms come from a variety of industries, but many viable business ideas are overlooked by...
The Gospel of Information Management
By Sherilyn Casiano
Information management is not the most fashionable of subjects. Yet as Sherilyn Casiano puts forseth in her article, it is the...
The 3 W’s Growth Dilemmas: What, When & Where?
By Mª Julia Prats
How do you go from one store in 2006 to 44 (and 28 concessions) in six countries today? Clever experimentation to...
Smart Specialisation and Economic Opportunity in the South West
By Richard Ball
The city of Exeter is proactively developing its credentials as a true exponent of “smart specialisation”, one of the pillars of the...
