The Importance of Your Business’s Training and Development Program
Training and development in business are often relegated to new hires and college students. However, this should not be the case. Continuous training can...
Why It’s Important To Review Your Digital Marketing Strategy This Year
If you think your business will be fine once you have set a marketing plan in place, better think twice. Having a marketing plan...
Reasons Why You Should Choose a Cloud-Based Warehouse Management System
There is hardly an aspect of our lives that cloud computing has not managed to touch in some way. Almost all industries are embracing...
Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World
Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Factors Influencing Risk Management In The Retail Industry
The retail industry has always been adapting itself with changing trends and designs. As global connectivity and communications continue to evolve, retailers have also...
Best Fintech Accelerators and Incubators in Europe
Digital transformation has changed the economic thinking and reasoning of many banking institutions globally. The majority of the finance providers seek to merge with...
Threats and Negotiations: Don’t Be an Idiot with a Gun in Your Hand
By Philippe Roy
You’re thinking of using threats in a negotiation? Well, if you stick out your gun, you’d better be ready to shoot, otherwise...
Facial Recognition and GDPR: How to Stay Compliant?
By Andrey Koptelov
The advent of facial recognition technology (FRT) has introduced a range of exciting possibilities to enhance cybersecurity and public safety. However, the...
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...
Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures Needed for Success in a Post Covid Hybrid Workplace
By Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic
The global pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives including the way that we are now working. As organisations are...
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...
What Do You Need to Know About dropshippingXL?
Dropshipping is a very popular and profitable business model for entrepreneurs. You can open a dropshipping store without having to worry about inventory or...
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...
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...
Digital Trust is on the Horizon: Interview with Warren Dumanski, Executive VP and General...
In an ideal world, businesses would be able to carry out their digital business transactions safely, securely, ethically and reliably. In short, they need...
Interviewing Elites and Guanxi in China
By Dr Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey and Jonathan V. Beaverstock
With China’s growing influence, Chinese leadership is attracting more limelight from around the world....
Strategies for Sudden Shock- Market Rewards Good Performance Also During Tough Times
By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen and Alexandra Oborina
Every company’s strategy aims to grow revenue, profit, and market capitalization. When global economy was accelerating, these...
Future, Delayed: The #1 Reason Digital Transformation Could Stall During a Recession (And How...
By Andre Schindler, General manager of EMEA for NinjaOne
The past two-and-a-half years have ushered in an accelerated era of digital transformation, but now economic...
Expanding Leadership Capabilities to Fuel the Evolution of Business
Director of MBA programmes at the University of Bath, Dr Donald Lancaster, explores the role of post-experience education in developing people strategies for sustainable...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
Understanding People: Applying Behavioural Science to Business
Interview with Dr. Tim Mullett, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
In business, understanding your clients, partners, and, perhaps most importantly, your...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an...
MedTech Startups Landscape in 2020
Modern medicine follows the so-called 4P principles (predictability, preventiveness, personalization, participatory). In short, these principles provide early diagnosis, disease recognition tools, an individual approach,...
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...
How to Make the Right Choice for Data Storage Solutions
With the growth of your business, your requirements and needs also grow. With every email that you send out and with every new client...
Home Automation for Productivity and Well-Being
Home automation has integrated into our lives not so long ago. However, we can already appreciate the many advantages that it has brought. It...
Alejandro Betancourt Continues to Transform Hawkers an International Fashion Company
Hawkers was founded with a clear philosophy: Offer designer, high-quality and high fashion sunglasses that are priced affordably and by doing so, they created...
Humanising Robots Increases Consumer Satisfaction and Forgiveness of their Failures
By Kai Chi (Sam) Yam and David De Cremer
Want your customers to have a positive, forgiving attitude towards your robot employees? Then make your...
Using the Triaxial Model of Values to Build Resilience in a COVID-19 VUCA World
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began at the end of 2019 in China and quickly spread globally. Millions of...
Building the Future on a Century of Heritage: A family business on the move–for...
Interview with Max Viessmann, CEO of Viessmann Group
If knowledge is power, then shared knowledge must surely be the way for a company to maximise...
Everything Your Business Needs To Know About Ad Fraud
The world of digital marketing is complicated enough without having to worry about fraudsters muddying the waters. However, ad fraud is rampant and appears...
Mental Stability – A Key to Success in Business
The pursuit of happiness should be one of the main goals of most people. In this relentless pursuit, they will make more and more...
Wharton LIVE: Best-in-Class Online Learning
When Wharton’s campus closed in March, more than 40 students from Shanghai were in California en route to Philadelphia for a finance program. The...
Episode 28: Designing the new workplace with Akka Architects CEO Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes
We continue our look at wellbeing in the built environment with Akka Architects CEO Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes. Coinciding with the launch of The Recovery...
12 Brilliant Tips For Companies To Enhance Conversion Rate Optimisation
The world has moved online and one of the most valuable commodities any business can have nowadays is an effective website. The importance of...
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...
7 Definite Ways to Win Eyeballs for Your Business Using YouTube.
Youtube is fast becoming the most used website on the internet. Billions of hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube each day. Not considering...
Give a Boost to Your Ad Campaign with Geo-Fencing
A successful ad campaign consists of two major parts – great creativity and its proper delivery. Both of these components cannot be carried out...
Organizational Preparedness with COVID-19: Strategic Planning and Human Creativity
By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma
COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...
5 Smart Ways to Make Your Business More Environmentally-Friendly
Creating an environmentally-friendly business is not only responsible, but it can also help grow your consumer base. Studies have shown that as many as 66%...
How Predictive Analytics Are Changing the Maintenance Industry
By Bryan Christiansen
Predictive Analytics are being used all over today, from business intelligence to fraud detection, to even law enforcement. As manufacturing has begun...
Entrepreneurial Fundamentals: Key entrepreneurial skills required to navigate in the Creative Industries
By Gene Shill
The impact COVID 19 has had on the global creative economy has been devastating. Yet amidst the deluge of destruction, the consumption...
Winning Strategies To Expand Your Online Reach
Effective online marketing is vital to the success of any business in this digital age. However, not all businesses are successful in reaching their...
VoIP Trends to Watch in 2020 and 2021
VoIP has been growing for the past two decades, and with technological improvements, support from various sectors, and adoption across different spheres, it does...
Customer experience stats you need to know about in 2020
In 2020, customer experience is at the forefront of many consumer purchase decisions. Not to be confused with customer service, the customer experience covers...
Building A Tech-Enabled Workplace For The New Normal
The impact of the pandemic on businesses is unprecedented and extends beyond economic crises. When the virus first struck, most of the organizations were...
The Jack Ma Story: Why Thinking Big is More Important than Technical Knowledge
By Rainer Zitelmann
"We don’t want to be number one in China. We want to be number one in the world," said Jack Ma shortly...
Open Minds Build Innovative Societies
By David De Cremer And Alain Van Hiel
Being marked as an innovative country is crucial in how able and savvy one’s nation is considered...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
Don’t let the COVID Grinch steal Christmas for eCommerce
By Brian Coburn, CEO of BRIDGE
eCommerce is the biggest Christmas story for Europe’s retailers this year, as consumer spending continues to shift online. While...
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