What’s Really Driving Early-Stage Tech Investment in 2026?
By Mark Pearson
As the startup market matures, investors are prioritising disciplined growth, resilient founders and scalable business models over hype-driven expansion.
The venture capital market...
Your Team Hides Mistakes Out of Fear: Building a Culture of Growth
By Dr. Melisa Buie
When teams hide mistakes out of fear, organisations lose critical learning; building psychological safety turns failure into insight, enabling experimentation,...
The Power of Digital Twins: Unleash Supply Chain Decisions
By Gilles Paché
"In today’s volatile, complex, and fast-moving markets, reactive-only supply chains are obsolete." Discuss. Here, Gilles Paché does just that, arguing that the...
Collaboration as Strategy: Five Dimensions for Winning in an Age of Polycrisis
By Dr. Louise Muhdi
Polycrisis is rewriting the rules of competitive advantage. Organizations clinging to siloed operations are losing ground to competitors who have mastered...
The Next Wave of AI: from Generation to Agency
By Jacques Bughin
If you're quietly patting yourself on the back for finally getting a grip on AI and its impact on your organization, here's...
Three Ways EPCs Can Build a Competitive Advantage Against Slow-Digitalization Competitors
By Pedro Hidalgo Insua
The engineering and construction sector faces a striking paradox: digital tools are proven to boost performance, yet adoption remains low. In...
Unlocking Potential: Supporting Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
By Julien Billion, Christel Tessier Dargent and Jérémie Renouf
Over 1.3 billion people live with disabilities yet their entrepreneurial potential remains overlooked. Entrepreneurs with disabilities...
The New Organic Search: You Don’t Rank Because You Matter – You Rank Because...
By João Filipe Pereira
The landscape of organic search is undergoing a profound transformation, shifting from authority-based rankings to intent-driven relevance. João Filipe Pereira explains...
The Agentic Race: Smart Lessons From Companies Leading the Way
By Yousef Khalili
Agentic AI is slowly changing the very foundations of business by allowing systems to act autonomously, make their own decisions and pursue...
Generative AI In Innovation Development: A Catalyst For Creative Disruption
By Filippo Frangi
From identifying strategic opportunities to enabling faster experimentation, from co-designing with users to reshaping go-to-market strategies, GenAI is pushing the boundaries of...
The Hidden Secrets of High-Performing Corporations
By Michael J. Provitera and Mostafa Sayyadi
We aim to expand Kotter’s change model to address both scholars and practitioners throughout the world to initiate...
The Art of Controlled Chaos: How Logistical Inefficiency Drives Retail Performance
By Gilles Paché
In today’s retail landscape, efficiency is not always the golden rule. Some of the largest retailers have mastered the art of controlled...
From Bottleneck to Builder: Why Letting Go is a Strategic Leadership Move
By Filip Pesek
Startups thrive on founder hustle, but doing it all can become a growth bottleneck. This piece explores the hidden costs of over-functioning...
BYD’s Rapid Ascent to the Global EV Leader
By Jiayi Huang and Xiangming Chen
From a battery maker to the world´s leading electric vehicle producer, BYD's spectacular rise is an eventful journey fueled...
Productivity Versus Ping Fatigue – is AI the Answer to Simplifying our Workflows?
By Caz Brett
The rapid integration of AI into workplaces has transformed how employees engage with their tasks. By automating repetitive work, AI offers a...
How AI can Help SMBs Build Credibility and Earn Consumer Trust in an Increasingly...
By Suhaib Zaheer
All Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB) owners know the importance of gaining customer loyalty and trust, in order to grow and scale...
How Incumbents Can Win the EV War
By Chengyi Lin and Lluvia Shen
How should incumbent electric-vehicle manufacturers respond to the growing competition posed by Chinese EV makers? Chengyi Lin and Lluvia...
AI Agents will Empower Autonomous, Scalable and Networked Organizations
By Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
The rapid development of AI technology has brought in agentic AI systems with the ability to be autonomous and...
Scaling You: Leverage the Value of YOUR Time to Scale Your Business Impact
By Elizabeth Eiss
Small businesses often face unique challenges in scaling their impact while juggling limited resources such as funding, sales, customer care, talent, and time....
AI Can Increase Companies’ Profit Significantly
By Ralph Geertsema, OP Lumijärvi, and John Wass
Introduction
Over the recent years, AI has conquered the world by storm and has been widely used so...
Inside Tesla: A Rare Glimpse of Tesla’s Mysterious Innovation Culture
By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael Provitera
Now, a critical and unanswered question is: How can CEOs develop an effective innovation culture so that their companies...
Empowering Small Teams to Achieve More with Smartsheet
By Sarfraz Ali
UK businesses are at a critical crossroads in an era of unprecedented economic complexity. The recently announced UK government’s Autumn Budget with...
Winning Strategies for the High-Stakes AI Arena: Unveiling an Innovative AI Research and Development...
By Aurélie Jean, Mark Esposito, Terence Tse and Danny Goh
Artificial intelligence and its rapid emergence have proven to be a double-edged sword. While its...
Why & How to Measure Your Carbon Emissions Early
Measuring carbon emissions might seem “optional”, but you’ll gain significant advantages from it in the short and long-term. Here, we give you a step-by-step...
Unlocking innovation with xTech partners
By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner
When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
Corporate Governance In Startups Balancing Innovation and Sustainability
By Javier Cabetas, Iván Fernández-Muñoz, Pedro Cesar Martinez-Moran, and Fernando Diez
In an increasingly complex and globalised business world, corporate governance can guide companies to...
Corporate Innovation in the Age of AI: A Changing Landscape
In today’s economy, information overload is fast becoming the norm. From sifting through flooded inboxes to endless scrolls on LinkedIn, there’s a continuous stream...
Six Ways Companies Can Use Generative AI to Boost Performance
By Ram Gopal
The AI of the beholder: Managers need to examine where AI can improve workflow processes.
Generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions...
Running Out of Road: Why Tech Firms Need to Fast-Track their Pathway to Profitability
By Ivan Nikkhoo
There are very few early-stage European tech firms that can afford to ignore the question of profitability.
Additionally, in recent years investors across...
Becoming More Visionary When You Are Motivated by Immediate Results
By Jenny Fernandez
Leaders often prioritise immediate results, but visionary leadership requires balancing short-term gains with long-term strategy. This involves embracing flexibility, empowering teams, and...
How Global Companies Are Implementing Supplier Diversity Policies
By Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca and Gemma Berenguer
It has become increasingly common for companies to implement supply-chain diversity to maintain a good image...
World Future Awards Honors the TOP 100 Global Innovation Companies of 2024
Progress and innovation are the lifeblood of advancement, and with that in mind, World Future Awards is thrilled to announce the Top 100 Global...
Energising Together: The Art of Unleashing Collective Potential
By Marcus Wylie
Generating and harnessing energy within an organisation isn't just a fleeting or whimsical notion: it is a powerhouse that ignites the entire...
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 Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital
By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner
Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour
By Avi Liran
While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
Strategic Excellence: Steps to Maximise ROI in GEN AI Implementations
By Stephan Kudyba and Agnel D’Cruz
The power of generative artificial intelligence (GEN AI) has organisations of all types intrigued and clamouring to leverage its...
How to Put Curiosity to Work in Your Organisation
By Louise Muhdi
Companies are starting to understand why it is important to cultivate curiosity among their workforce. Yet, only a few possess a good...
The Race to Net Zero: How AI Can be Harnessed to Meet the Growing...
By Román Campa
The demand for green skills in Europe is surging, but there’s currently a shortage of talent to meet it. Román Campa, CEO...
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose
By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa
In the first of a two-part series, we explore how firms are reaping the benefits of leveraging a network...
A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...
By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini
In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
A Portrait of Nvidia: A Company Facing Challenges During Explosive Growth
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor
Nvidia's growth has skyrocketed in the current AI boom, but the company also finds itself in the middle of...
Navigating Trust and Innovation: AI in 2024
By Julie Linn Teigland
This year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has chosen a compelling theme: ‘Rebuilding Trust’.
As outlined on the WEF’s website, it’s all...
Why We Need A Resolution Revolution
By David Liddle
If you've ever thought that there must be a more positive, less damaging way of resolving workplace disputes than that offered by...
Decentralise to Incentivise: The Quest for Unbiased, Explainable AI
Interview with Ala Shaabana, Co-founder of Opentensor Foundation
Amid widespread concern regarding possible built-in bias, opacity, and misalignment in big-tech-dominated AI, one strategy that offers...
Chips Everywhere and with Everything
By Elizabeth Stephens
Until recently, Taiwan’s central position in the global supply chain of advanced semiconductors was not seen as an issue. But today, in...
Hacking Trustworthy AI
By Jacques Bughin
In the aftermath of the initial AI tidal wave that has rolled across business and industry, there are signs that the emphasis...
Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform
By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner
To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...
Digital Strategies for Proactive Supplier Risk Management
By Kamil J. Mizgier
By learning to proactively manage supplier risks through digital strategies, companies can mitigate the adverse effects of disruptions, enhance supply chain...
Diamonds In The Rough: Spotting Opportunity During A Crisis
An exclusive interview with Cedar Rose founder and non-executive director Christina Massaad
After helping kickstart digital transformation across the MENA region, Cedar Rose is now...
