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Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
Making Inclusive Growth a Reality: Lessons from India
By Raghav Narsalay and Anish Gupta
Reaching out to the poor in emerging markets has long been a laudable social goal. But in India today,...
Web 2.0 for B2Bs Strategic Brief
By Donna L. Hoffman
The LEAD model is both a guidepost for managing social media and also an early warning system so you don’t fall...
Five Styles of Business Analytics
By Mark Torr and Diane Hatcher
Whether you’re using one, two or all five business analytics approaches, the technologies are capable of much more than...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities
By Daniel Diermeier
Maintaining a strong reputation is critical for a company’s sustained success. Yet, almost every day a new crisis makes the headlines. These...
Worry: I know there is a crisis waiting for me
By Thomas DeLong
Jana Jones was a successful, experienced manager who had run a multi-million dollar business. She projected the image of being able to...
On The Trail with the Idea Hunters
By Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer, with William Bole
High-value ideas are not necessarily created. More often than not, they are already out there, waiting to...
Managing Paradox: the discipline of strategic execution
By Andrew Binns and Wendy Smith
When a business faces the paradox between transforming for the future and securing its current market position, leading change...
Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses
By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay
The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...
Cloud computing and mobility: Adjusting in a New World – From Threat to Ally
By Christopher Clark
One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost...
Making Best Practices Stick
By Adrian Done, Chris Voss and Niels Gorm Rytter
Several key factors influence the short-term success and long-term sustainability of best practice interventions. Management of...
The Anatomy of Board of Director Culture
By Patrick R. Dailey
Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen.
Talented directors...
Adapt to Survive – a picture of leadership in 2030
By Georg Vielmetter
The business world is changing. Over the next twenty years, various global pressures will have a major impact on European organisations and...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part I
By Sean Culey
In the last edition of The European Business Review, my article called ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ was published, in...
Getting a Job In 2025
By Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade.
Even with my own three decades...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
Don’t forget the “real” in Real Estate
By Stefan Wundrak, Director of Research, Property at Henderson Global Investors
Are property investments like businesses?
When thinking about commercial property strategy, you might take the...
Developing a Breakthrough Service Model for Profitable Growth
By Philip G. Moscosoand Alejandro Lago
Stronger competition and more demanding customers require companies to deliver exceptional service and ultimately offer differentiated value propositions in...
How Electronic Document Interchange delivers the goods for FMCG businesses: a case study
By Ian Ford
In a business where timing and efficiency is critical, FirstB2B’s EDI solution handles a complex sequence of electronic messages effortlessly, ensuring things...
Outsourcing: Debunking the myths and unveiling the realities
By buyingTeam
Firmly entrenched misconceptions surround outsourcing, and they are holding many companies back from maximising the potential benefits from this fundamentally important tool.
Despite misunderstandings...
Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
Capturing the Growth Opportunity in Emerging Markets
By Henry Egan and Armen Ovanessoff
Over the next five years, emerging markets will account for much of the globe’s economic growth. To compete on...
The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
By Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
In the last two decades a growing number of companies across sectors and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders...
Credit Insurance – An inside story
By Neil Botting
To help provide a more detailed insight into the broader function of credit insurance and the business benefits, the best way is...
Think Again: How good leaders can avoid bad decisions
By Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead
Leaders can make good decisions or less good decisions. Several years ago, we set out to understand the causes...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs. Cloud-based Hosting Options
By Byung Chul Tak, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam
Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated into the cloud?...
Royalty-Free Standards vs. Loyalty-Free-Standards: Freedom from royalties, or freedom of choice?
By Eric K. Clemons
Why would you expect good standards to be free? Why does a royalty-free standard often result in a client’s entrapment in...
A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully
By Dr. Richard Stallman
If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not...
Securing the Cloud
By Gareth Williams
Any cloud that relies on the public Internet for its connection is exposing its data to unnecessary risk. CIO’s and CTO’s are...
Understanding the Business Impacts of Cloud Computing
By Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters, Edgar Whitley and John Hindle
Cloud computing is already changing the way IT and business services are delivered and managed....
Why Europe’s head belongs in the Cloud
By Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
The emergence of Cloud computing stands out as one of the key technological advances of the last 30...
Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage
By Scott Keller and Colin Price
To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time.
The case for health...
Ecological Gold – A New Gold Standard
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery in Life
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery In Life, works with ecological gold from the Oro Verde (Green Gold) mining project in Colombia, a...
Woman in Consulting: Q+A with Claire Arnold
Claire Arnold is a founding partner of Maxxim Consulting. In this interview, she told us about her management philosophy, visions as well as her...
What Do Bosses Do Today? Rethinking this still-essential role for a new world
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
Brain Science and the Tasks of the Manager
By Robert Chapman Wood, Gerald A. Cory Jr., and Osvald M. Bjelland
Ego and empathy—the two great drivers of business—come from distinct sets of elements...
Invisible Capital and Why We Need to Democratize Entrepreneurial Opportunity
By Chris Rabb
Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
The Four Challenges of Supply Chain Transparency
By Steve New and Dana Brown
In this article we examine a key business question: how much should organizations know about their extended supply base,...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
Getting Face Time
By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize
At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
What Managers Need to Know about Platforms
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
A Word About Dynamic Supply Chains: Delivering value through people
By John Gattorna
The key to successful supply chain management is recognising that it’s people who really drive the living supply chains that are at...
Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...
By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg
Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
By Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...
Your four opportunities to capture customers who no longer care where they buy: The...
By Robert H. Bloom
Today, sellers live in a virtual glass houses – they are stripped naked by social media, vulnerable to the attitudes, positive...
