Switching Off the Always-On Culture
By Avi Liran and Marianna Pascal
In mid-November 2021, Portugal made it illegal for bosses to contact employees after work. Legislators wanted to protect employees from...
How Corporations Can Partner With Startups In Emerging Markets
By Shameen Prashantham
Mingke Luo is a young Shanghai-based entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of MrS.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
Preserving the Human Element in Robots with Blue Ocean Robotics
Interview with Claus Risager, Blue Ocean Robotics Chief Strategy Officer
In the films, robots are often shown as a threat, frequently getting out of control...
What if Your Business Model Was to Blame for Your Lack of Innovativeness!
By Fernanda Arreola, Raphaël Maucuer and Adrien Terlier
Innovation is a crucial driver of success for organizations. It is a tool for nurturing a competitive...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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. 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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
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...
ZeroBounce COO Brian Minick on Getting Better at Email Marketing
Few can doubt the power of email after a year like 2020. It went from being an essential communication tool to the primary channel...
Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way
Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu
In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
Leading in an Age of Disruption
By Hannes Gurzki and Joachim Junghanss
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, few people would have expected the acceleration of digital technology and the new ways...
All You Need To Know About Creative Workflow Management
Creative work is not only exclusive to creative businesses like marketing agencies, graphic design companies, and advertising agencies. Now even relatively “rigid” industries like...
Veins and Wires: Reflections on UrbanTech Transformation
By Dr Mike Cooray, Dr Rikke Duus and Marius Sylvestersen
What kind of urban environment would you like to live in? In this article, we...
Board Membership: Navigating the New Uncertainties
Remember when there was an invisible line separating business from political and social movements? Corporate leaders largely kept quiet about their beliefs and values, trying...
How B2B Marketers Can Stay Customer-Centric
By Mairead Brady, Warwick Business School (WBS)
WBS Core Insights: Future of Work
To adjust to the new post-pandemic normal it is vital that businesses move...
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
Interview With Ewald Raben On Occasion Of 90th Anniversary
This year is the 90th anniversary of Raben Group. Can you think of some things that you did right in the last 20 or...
Breakthrough or Breakdown? Diagnosing chronic stress and risk factors in elite athletes in view...
By Simon L. Dolan and Sara Martinez Espejo
Why are elite athletes more susceptible to stress?
Can sports athletes be prepared to better cope...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
How To Lead With Compassion On The Return To The Office
By David Liddle
Managers are about to face one of the biggest challenges of their careers as organisations start to gear up for a gradual...
The Need To Rethink Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...
