The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Increasing the Quality of the Dialogue in the...
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It sounds all so easy – you create a board...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
Why Meta is Positioning Itself as the Champion of Open-Source AI
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
This article is part one of an ongoing series - The AI Power Plays - that explores the fiercely...
Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises through the Synergy of AI and Blockchain
By Yan Pang
The ability to make effective use of AI technology has hitherto remained in the province of large enterprises, with their access to...
The Psychology of Disenchantment
By Adrian Furnham
Justice has always been a major issue among people. Especially in an organisational context, where many employees with different values, interests, and...
Why Forecasting is Fixated with Accuracy: The Risk of Ignoring Feedback
By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. Kamil Mizgier
When it comes to building models for the purpose of forecasting, system designers are naturally concerned that...
Whither Talent?
By Adrian Furnham
To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...
Edge Computing in Europe: A Key Driver of Business Innovation
By Ram Ramalingam, Teresa Tung, Nitu Kaushal & Shalabh Kumar Singh
Edge is an essential component of the cloud computing model and has the potential...
Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
A Vision for Tomorrow: Crafting a Compassionate Blueprint for Our Shared Future
By Simon L. Dolan
The future of work is not just a matter of technology and efficiency; it’s about people. Many of us are navigating...
Habit Hacking (Part I)
By Steven MacGregor
In the first of two parts looking at habits in the workplace the author uncover the preliminary results of research into habit...
Are You Following the Right Digital Recipe?
By Tracey Countryman, David Abood, Aidan Quilligan, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen
To produce a successful dish of digital reinvention, start by combining six ingredient...
Digital Communication and Public Concern During Natural Disasters.
By Federico Platania, Celina Toscano, and Fernanda Arreola
While it makes sense that governments should use social media for effective communication with the public in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Board as a Team
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The Board as a Team may be a surprising topic....
Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
Leading by example
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve been lucky to have had some great conversations this past week without travelling too far from home. Two days spent with...
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...
Fitting the (dark-side, problematic) person to the (ideal) job
By Adrian Furnham
We might not care to admit it, but most of us have a dark side. Although it's tempting to view that as...
Digital Upskilling, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Tech-Driven Organizations
By David De Cremer
Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the...
Have You Ever Met a Psychopath? The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath
By Adrian Furnham
When we think of psychopaths, we think of blood-thirsty crazed killers who spend their lives in chains at maximum security prisons after...
We all have Mental Health with Kyan Health’s Vlad Gheorghiu
Closing out the "Starting Up" theme we talk to Vlad Gheorghiu, co-Founder and co-CEO of mental health start-up Kyan Health. Departing from his own...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
How European Companies Can Drive Reinvention and Resilience through Generative AI
By Mauro Macchi, Dominic King, and Ladan Davarzani
Europe’s economy shows promise, but stock market turbulence, political uncertainty and war could disrupt it any time....
The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise
By Jacques Bughin, Philippe Roussière, and Praveen Tanguturi
As more traditional companies are investing in AI, we explore best practices used by leaders to transform...
Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen
We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves.
Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...
Choosing Your Path: DBA vs. PhD – Empowering Your Future in Management Education
By Prof. Jean Luc Cerdin, Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Michel Kalika
PhD or DBA? As the world of work evolves, this analysis explores...
The Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulence, Fear of Success, and Perfectionism
By Adrian Furnham
Many of us, at one time or another, may have thought, “One day, they’re going to see through me.” If you’re one...
Business and Governments and Civil Society and a Healthy Planet
By Sylvain Guyoton and Hervé Legenvre
The following discussion took place In April 2020. We aimed at confronting our points of views on the contradictory...
Artificial Intelligence: Will You Be a Saboteur or an Impressionist?
By Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola
The rapid adoption of AI in today's organisations leaves workers with two choices: waste their energy in a futile...
Crisis? What crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann and Philippe Roussière
Whether it's a global pandemic, a major geopolitical conflict nearby, or now a rise in inflation that...
Episode 29: Home/Office insights from the Netherlands with Steve Longhorn and Elyse Nijsse
In this special joint episode which closes the Q2 theme of Wellbeing in the Built Environment we talk to experts in Facilities Management and...
The Five Paradoxes of Brexit
By David De Cremer
Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Why Story is Mission Critical for Boards
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A crucial yet often overlooked aspect of board effectiveness: stories....
Biochemistry 101
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve been lucky enough to teach executives from companies including Oracle, Telefónica, Chevron Philips and Banco Santander the past few weeks in a...
Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being
By Dr Madeleine Roantree and Professor Adrian Furnham
Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
Creating Inclusive Innovation Workplaces: Insights from the Playground
By Fernanda Arreola
In the pursuit of engaging employees in innovative endeavours, a pressing need emerges for firms to establish new, inclusive settings known as...
Mapping and Strategising Across Business Ecosystems
By Hervé Legenvre and Isabelle Herbet
Business ecosystems are the new unit of analysis for strategic thinking; they offer fertile grounds for innovation. This article...
Designing Culture for 202,000 Employees at Santander
By Steven P. MacGregor
Dan Strode couldn’t believe Monday had rolled around again so fast. Sleep had been at a premium during a busy ‘working’ weekend...
Impact Investing – What is new now?
By Peter Lorange Chairman Lorange Network and S. Ugelstad Invest President Emeritus, IMD, Lausanne
Intro
Today, there is ever-increasing awareness of the need to factor environmental...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Boardroom Tango – Where Strategy Meets Execution
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Highlighting the dynamic dance between the board and executives in...
Brain – Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation
By Hamilton Mann, Cornelia Walther and Michael Platt
This paper introduces the concept of "brain-machine synchrony," exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological...
Design For Wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
Health and wellbeing in the professional domain continue to garner increased attention. In this article, the author wraps up the year through...
The Road Ahead for Large Language Models is Brighter than Claimed
By Jacques Bughin
1. LLM is dead, long live LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been the talk of the town for the past two years,...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Gender Equality in the Workplace Starts at the Top
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Despite living in an era of rapid technological advancements, ground...
Reimagining the Future: Unleashing the Deep Transformation and its Impact on Business, Society, and...
By Dr. Mario Raich, Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Claudio Cisullo
In a world where everything seems to change with increasing frequency, we risk becoming...
Business as Usual?
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Lisa Xiong
“We are running out of water.”(Famiglietti (NASA), 2015)1
The constantly evolving world we live in continues to pose...
Humanity First! The AiTH Manifesto: Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society
By David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan, Andreas Deppeler, Mahak Nagpal, Jack McGuire and Jess Zhang, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business...
Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World
Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...
Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and the Future
By David De Cremer
The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...
