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Best Partners for Business Growth

Best Partners for Business Growth explores the organisations, leaders, and strategic collaborations helping businesses create sustainable growth and long-term value. The series highlights innovative solutions, industry expertise, and partnership approaches that enable organisations to scale, adapt, and succeed in an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving business landscape.

Northern Ireland is a Magnet for International Businesses

Five Reasons Why Northern Ireland is a Magnet for International Businesses

Over 1,500 international companies have set up operations in Northern Ireland. The region boasts a proven track record of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and...
Silhouette of business people with data and analytics for operational research

How Operational Research is the Hidden Gem of Business Decision-Making 

By Bob Scott  In today's data-driven world, where the buzz around AI and analytics dominates boardroom discussions, there is a forgotten hero quietly transforming business...
Safraz Ali on All Pulling Together: Smartsheet Ramps up the Team Power

All Pulling Together: Smartsheet Ramps up the Team Power

Interview with Sarfraz Ali of Smartsheet In this interview, Smartsheet EMEA VP and General Manager Sarfraz Ali sets out how, with its revamped UI and...
pPeter Weill on How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital

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,...
Business Leadership Paradigm

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...
Mercedes-Benz car

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...
Claudio Cisullo

Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values

Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
Bitwarden CEO Michael Crandell

Cybersecurity: The Future of Passwords and Passwordless – Interview with Michael Crandell, the Chief...

Digital security remains a core concern for businesses, as the scary headlines continue to shriek of stolen and encrypted data, phishing, breaches, and intrusions....

Innovation – now and for generations to come

By Ulrich A.K. Betz Merck is well known as a vibrant science and technology company. But the company's drive to improve the well-being of humanity...
VidaXL

VidaXL: Pioneer and eCommerce Business Giant

It all started with two selling items on eBay. Sixteen years later, the business has transformed into the global retailing giant, vidaXL. The eCommerce...
Fleur Hicks

Not Lost in Translation: Making the Data Make Sense

Interview with Fleur Hicks, award-winning CEO of management consulting firm onefourzero Where can managers turn for help in navigating the vast sea of data that...
Daversa

Refining the Search for Executive Talent in Europe

Interview with Daversa Partners’ Wendy Colvano - Director & Head of Europe With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need...

Data Protection: Lightening the Load of Compliance

Interview with the DPO Centre CEO and Founder Rob Masson Does compliance with the data protection regulations have to represent a huge and costly burden...
Iain Wright

Are You Prepared to Take the Risk?

Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...
jessica letterman

Future-proofing payment systems: the silver lining is in the cloud

Exclusive interview with Form3 Chief Customer Officer Jessica Letterman Maintaining legacy payment systems is costly for banks, especially with continual changes in the regulatory framework....
Ole Lola

Getting the AI edge: An exclusive interview with MobiDev CEO Oleg Lola

How can businesses leverage artificial intelligence effectively? Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, outlines his company’s approach to harnessing the power of AI in the...
Graham Bright

Promise and Challenge: AI in the Trade Finance Industry

Interview with Graham Bright, Head of Compliance and Operations, Euro Exim Bank Technology is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s moving fast –...

Robots Are Cleaning Up – And Much More Besides!

Interview with Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics The potential of robots to assist and even replace humans in a variety of work areas...

Mind How You Grow: A Partnership to Improve Your Processes

Interview with Mr Giuseppe Zagami, the president of Mind The Value Fast-growing Italy-based company Mind The Value has made a name for itself with its...