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Society in the Clouds
By Peter Lake & Elizabeth Uruchurtu
There is no doubt that technology can make enormous changes to human society. Advances in Information and Communication technologies...
Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation From Mind To Method
By William Duggan
In Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, William Duggan shows how the human mind creates solutions to new problems and then translates...
Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace
Rick Iedema & David Grant
Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
The Daily Practice of Leadership Communication During Times of Change
By Terry Pearce
In this article Terry Pearce, the author of LEADING OUT LOUD A Guide For Engaging Others In Creating The Future, places authenticity...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
6 Keys to Inventory Optimisation
By Karin Bursa
Many companies around the world have adopted inventory optimisation and those without a formal process are falling behind their competition. Effective companies...
PDF Documents Now Accessible to Enhance Supply Chain Integration
By Steve Hill
For years the benefits of electronic integration of supply chain integration documents have been clearly identified by businesses, consultants and acknowledged in...
Judgment Calls: Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got...
By Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville
In Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right, Thomas Davenport and...
Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery
By Tim Cooper & Matthew Robinson
Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...
What is Resilience?
By Adrian Furnham
Can resilience be taught? If so, how? And are some organisations more resilient than others? This article considers how the notion of...
Four Truths About Marketing Lady Gaga
By Mathieu Deflem
‘There can be no fame attained, nor any accompanying revenue acquired, in any career based on artistic or other intrinsically valid accomplishments...
Competitive Advantage Rewired
By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...
Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent...
By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr.
Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...
Measuring the Relative Weights of E-Marketing Tools for Online Businesses
By Kin Meng Sam & Chris Chatwin
E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place), which forms...
Don’t Despair: Growth from Consumer Behaviour Change in Developed-Market Economies
By Paul F. Nunes, Sam Yardley & Mark Spelman
Mired in a period of low growth, developed economies are becoming increasingly tough places to do...
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in...
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement...
Comparative Decision Making: An Emerging Interdiscipline
By Philip Crowley & Thomas Zentall
How can we continue to analyse human decision making in an age when free will is considered to be...
The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in...
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
How Western Multinationals Can Organise to Win in Emerging Markets
By Vimal Choudhary, Martin Dewhurst & Alok Kshirsagar
As Western multinationals shift their focus to emerging markets, they must adjust their structures, processes, and decision-making...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Design vs. Discovery: Which Way to Innovation?
By William Duggan
“Design thinking” is slowly but surely taking over the field of innovation. The result is terrific design. But that’s not the same...
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
By Irv Rothman
The article is an excerpt from the book “Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy”, by...
Demand Chain Management: Enhancing Customer Value Proposition
By Pankaj M. Madhani
DCM creates strategic assets for the firm in terms of the overall value creation as it enables the firm to implement...
Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance
By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira
Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on...
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! Why and How Corporate CEOs Should...
By Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch & Günter Müller-Stewens
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of...
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
Structuring Your Organization to Meet Global Aspirations
By Suzanne Heywood & Roni Katz
The matrix structure is here to stay, but its complexity can be minimized, and companies can get more value...
Making Corporate Learning Work
By Shlomo Ben-Hur & Nik Kinley
Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’...
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America – searching for “Shared Value”...
By Luciano Ciravegna
Between 2003 and 2012 Latin America has lived through an unprecedented period of stability and positive economic performance. A region once associated...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz
The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Innovate the Way You Innovate
By Stephen Shapiro
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to innovate is not enough. You need to innovate efficiently, quickly, and with less risk....
Luxury is a necessity in People’s Republic of China: Social Rejection...
By Pierre Xiao Lu
Research Phenomena
China is the second largest market for luxury goods in the world, behind the US and before Japan1. More...
Will Innovation Save the Planet? How the principles of successful innovation...
By Morten Olsen
“Combating climate change requires urgent and ambitious action,” proclaimed the RIO+20 summit held in June 2012. Yet, strong commitments failed to materialize...
Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great Leadership
By Claudia Peus and Armin Pircher Verdorfer
Imagine you have been asked to support a company with their employee survey. You have done your research,...
Disagreement to Convergence: Wisdom in Diversity
By Adam Kingl
Teams typically desire harmony above all. The most common fear is that of conflict. The assumption is that conflict and effectiveness are...
Getting Ruthless With Your Processes
By Avinash Goyal, Suzanne Heywood & Toby Gibbs
Consistent global processes add value—up to a point. New research helps companies find the right balance between...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
‘Big Data’ vs. Quality Information: The Peculiarities of Information Markets
By Miklos Sarvary
Big data versus quality information
‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...
