Editors' Pick

This category is Editors’ Pick, featuring a curated selection of insightful articles, expert analyses, and thought-provoking content. It highlights the most impactful stories, trends, and ideas shaping the future of business, leadership, and innovation.

Race to Net Zero

Three Steps to Getting on Track in the Race to Net Zero

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra and Monique de Ritter The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow saw a welcome spate of...
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...
cryptoassets

Cryptoassets and Dispute Resolution: Four Things to Know

By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp With an increased interest in non-traditional financial transactions and record-high inflation rates, cryptoassets represent the next frontier for...
agile and devops

Agile & DevOps: How Do They Interrelate & What Secret Benefits you can Leverage?

 Many people still think that Agile and DevOps are at odds, but this isn't true at all. In fact, Agile and DevOps can work...
AI in Marketing

How AI is Shaping the New Era of Marketing

By JĂĽrgen Galler, CEO and Co-founder of 1plusX Since the inception of digital, data has been the linchpin for marketing success. However, global privacy regulations...
Generate Engagement And Build High Performing Teams

Generate Engagement And Build High Performing Teams With Caring, Clarity, Context, And More

By Brian Hartzer Over the past two decades, while leading or overseeing dozens of businesses across three continents, I’ve grappled with the question of what...
AI

AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World

By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
war crimes

Nation States Must Comply With Their Responsibility to Protect Ukraine Against the Russian Federation’s...

By Charles H. Camp, Kiran Nasir Gore and Lilia Chu The UN Charter, signed in 1945, reflects the international community’s collective transnationalist view that unilateral tactics, coercion, and sheer...
Productivity - Tools

Save Time: 5 Best Productivity Tech Tools To Get You More Time

Experts across businesses frequently have extensive daily agendas to get past. Hence, a considerable lot of them depend on more than their organization's inward...
CRM

How to Implement a CRM Successfully

The goal of any good business should be to improve your relationships with other businesses and your customers, and a CRM is a perfect...
Business Software

How Companies Will Manage Software Remotely Post Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic left a hole in many industries and businesses. It has forever changed the way people work, live, and enjoy their lives....
Robotics

The Impact Of Robotics On The European Economy

The economy relies on productivity, employment and jobs to survive, so it's essential to consider how the greater use of robotics and automation affects...
metaverse

Digitalized World: Workplace Culture through the Lens of Metaverse

The pandemic has challenged everyone to acclimate to new methods of work - forcing organizations of all sizes to develop at an exponential pace...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews

Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews

By Adrian Furnham Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
Strategic Foresight

Why Invest in Strategic Foresight?

By Ph.D. Nando Malmelin and Dr.Sc. (Tech.) Kalle Kantola Most companies are missing the opportunities of strategic foresight in developing and growing their business. We have seen this...
new leadership

New Leadership for a Sustainable Future

By Matt Gitsham At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
Kit Scott Brown

When The Opportunities Are Out Of Plain Sight

Interview with InterExec Founder, Mr. Kit Scott-Brown Executives looking to progress their career face the problem that many of the best opportunities are not presented in...

Don’t Fear the Black Swan, Take it as an Opportunity to Soar

By Kevin Peters, President and CEO, NetNumber When a black swan event, an unexpected occurrence that has a substantial impact on society and business, happens, businesses...
Technology Commons

How Technology Commons Revolutionise Industry Foundations: The Story of the Open Compute Project (OCP)

By Hervé Legenvre and Steve Helvie In this article, we will feature a largely ignored cornerstone of digital transformation - the adoption of technology commons: open-source...
eCommerce

How Data-Driven Shopper Insights Are Transforming eCommerce, One Click at a Time

Every action taken on the internet leaves a trail of data, one that, when used correctly, can transform the way your business operates. Considering...
3D-Printing-Metal-Industry

Collaborations, Innovations, and Acquisitions to Accelerate Utilization of 3D Printing Metals

By Pratik Kirve Metals used in 3D printing have widened its application scope with the development of innovative technologies, methods, and usage. Market players...
Gerry Zack

The Cycle of ESG and Compliance

By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA) Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
strategic architecture

Building the Strategic Architecture of the Post Pandemic Corporate Landscape

By Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Alessandro Lanteri and Dr. Terence Tse The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major disruptor for tried and tested approaches...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era

The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...

By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman Introduction Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology.  Its origins are in the school of thought...
Metaverse

The Role of AR/VR in the Development of the Metaverse

By Oleksii Tsymbal The past year has been full of bold new tech ideas, and the metaverse is on the top of the list. By...
Space Tourism

Can Space Tourism Open New Opportunities for Tackling Problems on Earth?

This decade marked the beginning of a new era where a trip to space is available to any billionaire willing to pay for such...
Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation

How Should a Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation?

By Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck Engaging in digital transformation is a dilemma. Either the transformation is aggressive enough to scale,- but brings the...
Unlocking Schumpeter

Unlocking Schumpeter. Fostering Innovation Within Our Organizations

By Pedro B. Agua History has shown that when organizations have approached some threshold concerning their markets saturation, be it by product or process improvements,...
Bricks, Mortar, and Entrepreneurship

More than Policies: Bricks, Mortar, and Entrepreneurship

By David Johnson and John Mackenzie Science commercialisation activities at the university-industry boundary are key drivers to high-growth, sustainable university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs). To support...

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...
Kevin Peters

All Change – but which Platform? Confronting Shift in the Telecom Sector

Interview with Kevin Peters, President and CEO at NetNumber All technology-based companies operate in an arena of constant change. However, perhaps no sector is subject...
Eugene

Cloud-native Banking: Empowering Delivery of Great Financial Experiences

Interview with Mr. Eugene Danilkis, CEO of SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu Digitalisation and the cloud have transformed the way in which financial services are offered....
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...
cloud

How European Companies can use the Cloud to Increase their Competitiveness

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Surya Mukherjee and Gargi Chakrabarty Most European business leaders think of cloud as shared, public data centers to host workloads...

A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates

By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich Introduction  The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Growth

3 Startups Destined to Become Massive Brands in 2022

Every day, 137,000 new startups emerge around the globe. Yet, the unfortunate reality is that only a select few of these fledgling businesses ever...
DTC

Why Should Wholesale Brands Switch to a Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce Model?

The growing demand for highly personalized goods and services among consumers is proving to be a lucrative opportunity for brands of all kinds to...
Future Blogchain Technology

Future of Blockchain: How Will It Revolutionize The World In 2022 & Beyond!

Blockchain technology has made significant strides in its development and widespread adoption in recent years, and there’s no sign of it slowing down. In...
Sangeet Paul Choudary

Platforms and APIs; A Powerful Combination

By Sangeet Paul Choudary One of the world’s largest online API events - APIX - was recently organised and hosted by connectivity and integration expert,...
Business Strategy

Three Steps to Make Sure a Strategy is Implemented

By Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School (WBS) Studies have found that companies use many different methods to devise a strategy and even more ways in...
B2B

Joint Venture Of Industry Leaders Enable B2B And B2C Businesses To  Digitize And Expand...

The realities of the post-pandemic business world grow more evident by the day. It is impossible to dismiss the impact of technology and automated...
User Experience

6 Best Ways To Improve User Experience

When your business creates a positive impact on your customers, it builds their loyalty towards the brand of your company.  To create a positive user...
AI

How App Developers Use AI: Things We Know For Sure?

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the most talked-about technology thanks to the wide range of possibilities that it unveiled. Mobile app...
Reshoring and New Globalization

Reshoring and New Globalization: The Future of Supply Chains

By Luigi Gentili Reshoring is an economic phenomenon that has increased during the pandemic crisis. Many governments and businesses decide to repatriate their production lines...
Seize the Opportunity

The Corporate World’s Comeback: Time to Seize the Opportunity

By Anna Saghabalyan and Paul Argenti Since the start of the COVID Pandemic, the world’s attention was focused on the calculation of two sets of...

AIM for the New Frontiers of Work

By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman and  Michael Chaskalson Earlier articles in this series have introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored how the...
Digital Transformation

The Challenge of Digital Transformation

By Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Jacques Bughin The typical rationale put forward for failing digital transformation is linked to ill-designed processes, absence of organizational commitment,...
AI

How to Make Sense from and with AI?

By Imène Brigui As a consequence of Hyperconnectivity, tremendous growth of iOT and mobile technology expansion, data is becoming highly accessible to companies : large,...
ALIEN Thinking

Making the Case that Everyone is a Disrupter: A Book Review of ALIEN Thinking

By Kyle Scott Innovation is the key to success and the essential ingredient for staying ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, modern life does not give us...
Communication network

When Leadership Drives Innovation: The case of WeLink

By David De Cremer Ask any executive how they would like the ideal work force to act and many of them would probably say something...