Innovation (not) at the Core
By Claudio Cisullo
A common mistake in industries faced by severe performance pressure is to turn to well-known innovation tools and strategies. Especially in sectors where...
Future Insight – From a 350th Birthday to the Start of a Global Movement
By Ulrich A.K. Betz
Merck, a vibrant science and technology company, celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2018. Dr. Ulrich A.K. Betz, VP and Head of...
Making Failure Work
By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
Understanding the Potential of AI in a Technology Driven World
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Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
Scaling Agility: The Fuel that Drives the Organisation’s Digital Transformation
Interview with Professor Stijn Viaene
In today’s rapidly-changing corporate world, it’s imperative for businesses and organisations to respond and adapt more quickly than ever before....
TRIP Framework: Re-Thinking Organisational Competitiveness in Digital Spheres
By Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus
Across industries, organisations are in search of new ways to enhance their competitiveness in the midst of digital disruption...
How Some Companies Beat the Competition…for Decades and Even Centuries
By Howard Yu and Jialu Shan
The average lifespan of companies is becoming shorter. For them to survive the competition it is important to learn...
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...
Sometimes Being Yourself is the Best Globalisation Strategy: Lessons from a K-Pop Group, BTS
By Won-Yong Oh and Mooweon Rhee
Multinational corporations face the paradox of globalisation and localisation in expanding foreign markets. As the BTS’s success shows, the...
Transpitality: How Autonomous Driving Technology Will Reshape the Industry Landscape
By Steve Lee, Won-Yong Oh, Irene Yi
There has been increasing attention to self-driving cars, but business is still missing some key insights into how...
A Lesson In Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating With Kidnappers
By Kandarp Mehta and Guido Stein
This article is a case analysis based on real events. The case analyses how a young British man who...
The Coming Food Industry Revolution: You can have your cake with wine and...
By Kevin Parker and Boris Liedtke
Balancing food supply and demand in a manner that has a positive environmental impact and ensures a healthier life...
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 –...
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...
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....
Thought Leadership, Frameworks, Tools and Immersion: Interview with Dr Prem Shamdasani of NUS Business...
A tough future in which the only constant is change awaits those who aspire to leadership in the world of business. To prepare these...
Riversoft Makes the Connection: From Travel Services to Medical Data Via NLP
Since its foundation, Riversoft has been active in many areas of growth, from tourism to technology and the marriage of both. Following our initial...
How to Create a Successful Global, Online MBA: The Case of ESMT Berlin’s Online...
ESMT Berlin is the only top-10-ranked European business school offering a fully online, global MBA. So what makes their online MBA unique? A talk...
The Eight Common Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make When Negotiating
By Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind
We all know the statistics. Most start-up businesses fail. While many experts attribute the high failure rate to the...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
The Service Revolution, Intelligent Automation and Service Robots
By Jochen Wirtz, Werner H. Kunz and Stefanie Paluch
Are there parallels between the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century and the changes now being wrought on twenty-first-century society...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5 Things Startup Founders Need To Know When Launching a Tech Startup
By Oleksii Tsymbal
Since the rise of Silicon Valley, the startup boom has taken over the world, giving us Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, Twitter, Revolut and...
What’s Next for TravelTech? Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented, and continues to present, enormous challenges across the spectrum of industry, not least for the travel and tourism sector....
Atradius and Kemiex Shake up the Raw Material Trading Landing in Pharma, Veterinary, Food,...
An online trade platform designed and introduced by Kemiex and Atradius is revolutionising the B2B global trade landscape for APIs, vitamins, and other food...
Diesel Polluting German Cities: Give us a Brake!
By Stefan Krause and Boris N. Liedtke
The German diesel car industry still claims its innocence on the air pollution accusations that have bombarded...
Deep Engagement: Where Thought Leadership and Subject Expertise Meet
Interview with Dr. Kishore Sengupta, Cambridge Judge Business School Director of Executive Education
Since its establishment in 1990, Cambridge Judge Business School has always been a...
The Future of Digital Identity VerificationÂ
Interview with Andreas Bodczek, CEO of IDnow
The digital revolution is making a significant impact on every industry, and IDnow, being the leading provider of...
Dare more AI, Germany!
By Olaf Groth, Tobias Straube and Toni Kaatz-Dubberke
We are in the middle of a cognitive revolution. Germany must be more ambitious with its strategy for...
Beyond Collaborative Intelligence we can see a Meta-Mind Society Surfacing and we can Dream...
Facts, Fads and predictions about the joint venture of Human Mind and AI algorithms
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Claudio Cisullo and Bonnie A....
Agility and Resilience: The Essential Qualities of Leadership in the Digital Age
By Katharina Lange
Transforming an organisation is never an easy task, especially when competitive pressure becomes merciless. There always seems to be a faster, better, bolder,...
Hybrid Strategies and the New Face of Retail
By Omar Toulan and Niccolò Pisani
How has the digital disruption affected the way customers shop and the factors that influence their decisions? One need...
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...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
5 Keys to Resolving Cross-Functional Rivalries in your Digital Transformation
By Bhaskar Ghosh, Nigel Stacey, Raghav Narsalay, Aarohi Sen, and Paul Barbagallo
The challenge is as old as business itself: How do you get people...
Under Cyberattack: Learning For Leaders Through Play
By Nora Grasselli and Bethan Williams
How are team dynamics affected by our evermore global and virtualized business context? An innovative game created at ESMT...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant...
Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley
Abstract
“We are at a critical turning point in human history! We...
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...
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...
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...