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At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
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By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives
By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner
As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...
When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
Digitalisation: The Pharmakon of Open Organisations
By Albert Meige
The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise – the same entity we are familiar with today.1...
Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?
By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert
Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...
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...
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Adapting Your Digital Business to a Fragmented World
By Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Armen Ovanessoff
We are aware that this era calls for your business to be able to continuously adapt to...
Knowledge Architects Wanted
By Tammi L. Coles
Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
Preparation, Preparation, Preparation: Safer and Securer Business Travel
By Sophie Harwood
When travelling for business, we most often focus on our trip’s objective while inadvertently taking many other factors for granted. Sophie Harwood...
The Burning Platform of Retail Banking
By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi
Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success
By Tammi L. Coles
For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...
Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope
The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...
Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace
By Steven P. MacGregor
Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...
Smart Manufacturing
By Seeram Ramakrishna, Chen-Khong Tham and Teo Kie Leong
Manufacturing is vital to a country’s economic growth and ability to innovate. Manufacturing is changing from...
The EU Now Regulates Internet Services. But What Does that Mean, Exactly?
By Martin Schallbruch
Internet access has become crucial to the functioning of our most important systems. The Directive on security of network and information systems...
A New World Order with Industry 4.0
From the Editors
The Internet of things has invaded individual space and now live in our pockets in the shape of that little computer gadget...
Strategising for the Future
By Joan E. Ricart and Carlos Rey
In this article the authors discuss how organisations can better strategise for the future by integrating and balancing...
Is Your Innovation Strategy Ready to Meet the 21st Century?
By Tamara Bekefi and Marc J. Epstein
We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...
At Your Service: Management with HEART
Interview with Rommel Gonzales
The Bellevue Resort, Bohol, Philippines
“In the hospitality and airline industry, you are not selling rooms, nor selling airline seats. You are...
NGOs and Millennials – A Blinding Love Affair?
From the Editors
As we start 2017 we look back to 2016 to consider some of the interesting events that will continue or influence the...
Must-Have Technology Capabilities for Digital Transformation Mastering the Magnificent 15
By Stephen J. Andriole
Digital transformation is about efficiency and competitiveness. It requires a deep understanding of current and emerging business processes and models and...
A Primer on Theoretically Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation
By Oliver Gassmann, Karolin Frankenberger and Roman Sauer
Companies like Amazon, Uber, and Skype have become business strategy icons and the way they transformed industries...
The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...
By Albert Meige
An analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and...
What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump
By Katharina Balazs
When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...
Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences
By Jonathan Trevor
Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...
Passports for Sale
Interview with Till Neumann, IMCM, founder and managing partner of Citizen Lane
The luxury of a global lifestyle and world travel can be achieved through...
Is it really so bad to have a business mogul as president?
By Stephen Gibbs
Donald Trump’s image as a street fighter offering a voice to the disenfranchised propelled him to victory in the US election....
Election Postmortem – The Leadership System
By Barbara Kellerman
Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...
5 Ways Trump or Clinton Could Make Government Run More Like a Business
By Howard Schweitzer
Applying business concepts to government is not a fantasy. With the right leader, a heavy dose of patience and good ideas, government...
The 4 D’s of Successful Business Transformation
By John Sutherland
You cannot build successful transformation in a hurry. The best transformation projects are slow-cooked, not microwaved. In this article, John Sutherland introduces...
Aargau – Scope for Life Sciences Innovations
For many years, Switzerland has been one of the most innovative and competitive business locations in Europe, as demonstrated by various rankings such as...
The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS
By Sherilyn Casiano
To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....
Enemy within
From the Editors
Europe is in the grips of anti-immigrant sentiments aimed mostly against their Muslim citizens and new émigrés. One wonders what would happen...
Evolving Leadership in the Digital Age
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
To become more effective and reflective leaders, executives need to learn to improve their behavioural reactions to difficult...
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...
UK – the most undemocratic democracy
From the Editors
The United Kingdom woke up on Friday 23 June to new realities: the Kingdom was no longer ‘united’ and its constituent parts...
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...
Days of Glory past
From the Editors
In the run up to the 12 May 2016 Anti Corruption Summit in the UK last week, the British premier let off...
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...
Just deserts!
From the Editors
It was Joseph de Maistre who said, "Every country has the government it deserves", and “In a democracy people get the leaders...
Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation
“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...
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