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raw material trading

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...
Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

By Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner A domain-oriented company helps serve a customer’s end-to-end need by focusing on customer outcomes rather than only on...
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...
AI in MBA

What an MBA Teaches that AI Never Will in 2026

AI is changing organisations across different economies, and MBAs are no exception. Here’s why an MBA still provides value and ROI – and who...
Interview with Miquel Angel Mora of Tauniqo.ai

How High-Performance Leadership Shapes Growth in Fast-Changing Industries

Interview with Miquel Angel Mora of Tauniqo.ai As industries evolve rapidly, leaders must balance execution, innovation, and resilience to scale businesses while maintaining clarity, culture,...
Organizations

Flat Organizations Can Foment Trust and a Sense of Purpose, but Come with Their...

By Mireia Las Heras and José Pérez del Valle Flat organizations are becoming popular across industries, emphasizing employee autonomy and responsibility. While these models promote...
IMD for Who will Lead the Transition? Why the Future Belongs to Leaders who can Deliver Sustainability

Who Will Lead the Transition? Why the Future Belongs to Leaders Who Can Deliver...

The rules of business are shifting fast. Climate risks are materialising, regulators are tightening requirements, and investors are placing a price on transition plans....
Launching a Tech Startup

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...
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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...
Voice in the Enterprise

The Sleeping Giant: Voice in the Enterprise

By Laurence Minsky, Eric Turkington, Colleen Fahey and Will Hall One of the important market disruptions taking place today is the ascent of voice technology....
Business amidst COVID-19

How have business priorities changed pre- and post-Covid?

By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK. In a life before Covid, businesses...
artificial intelligence

Intelligent Artificiality: Why ‘AI’ Does Not Live Up To Its Hype – and How...

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Organisations need to urgently take action to address the communication and skills gap between their corporate leaders, key decision makers and AI...
Accelerating Business Process

Accelerating Business Process Optimisation with Machine Learning

By Geetika Tandon and Andrea Jooyeon Huh While not without a few challenges, “The promise of machine learning is rooted in its ability to identify...
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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...
Online Payment Fraud

The Most Common Forms of Online Payment Fraud and How Merchants Can Combat Them

By Pavels Smirnovs Online shopping has grown dramatically in popularity and scope over the last decade, with the events of 2020 forcing ever-greater numbers of...

Medical Cannabis: Benefiting from a Growth Industry

Cannabis has long been known for its benefits for medicinal purposes, although its use in that context is still a legal minefield in many...
Elizabeth Eiss

Human Resourcefulness for the Smaller Business: Interview with Elizabeth Eiss

There are a host of recruitment platforms geared towards large enterprises. But what of the smaller business or one-person outfit looking to take on...

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...

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...
learning from failure

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...
Porto Business School's International MBA

Reimagining Business Leadership: Porto Business School’s International MBA

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, leaders must be agile, innovative, and equipped with a global perspective. The International MBA at Porto Business School...
woman with hope and Resilience

The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience

By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
Ana Doval on Technology Trends

What Does the Global Technology Workforce Really Want?

By Ana Doval de las Heras, SVP at Amadeus Want to know what really matters to your people? Why not ask them? That's exactly what...
art of future design

The Art of Future Design — Part II: Deployment, Wholeness, and Impact on...

By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo In this article, we extend the logic that was previously published...
Adam Beldzik, Head of E-Invoicing Sector at Comarch

E-Invoicing – For Regulatory Shift, Read Strategic Advantage

Interview with Adam Beldzik of Comarch For many business organizations, dealing with changes in global compliance regs is about reaction. But what if it didn't...
IMD MBA: From the Sports Field to the Boardroom

From the Sports Field to the Boardroom

How an athletic mindset is shaping tomorrow’s business leaders in the IMD MBA class of 2025. At 6 a.m., while most of his IMD MBA...

Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges

By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry   Summary Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
TIMEXTENDER

Data-driven Decision Making that Uses Data, Mind and Heart

Interview with Heine Krog Iversen, CEO and Founder of TimeXtender TimeXtender’s mission is to help companies to extract the maximum-possible advantage from their data resources...
Renata Blanc, Academic Director of the International MBA

Porto Business School: Cultivating Market-Ready Explorers

Interview with Renata Blanc of Porto Business School Portugal is renowned for its early navigators' audacious journeys of global exploration. What better home, then, for...

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...
Mercedes-Benz car

Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform

By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...

Unlocking innovation with xTech partners

By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
operations and supply chain management

Compliance is Riskier Than Ever

By Gerry Zack, CEO, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Over the years, there has been a steady growth of compliance-related risks that bring untimely...
Bitwarden CEO Michael Crandell

Cybersecurity: The Future of Passwords and Passwordless – Interview with Michael Crandell, the Chief...

Digital security remains a core concern for businesses, as the scary headlines continue to shriek of stolen and encrypted data, phishing, breaches, and intrusions....
AI

Altman’s Exit and Return: A Timeline and the Main Takeaways

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor In an astonishing sequence of events, the tech world witnessed a dramatic exit of Sam Altman from OpenAI, a...
Gina Lodge

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...
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...

Quantum Leadership for Recovery

By Vlatka Hlupic Even before the advent of the global pandemic necessitated a rethink of leadership models, the world of work managed by the old...
ESMT Berlin

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...
Julia Binder for Women Leading the Way in Sustainability: Shaping a Greener Future 

Women Leading the Way in Sustainability: Shaping a Greener Future 

By Julia Binder In recent years, sustainable leadership has emerged as a powerful force reshaping corporate strategies worldwide. At its core, sustainable leadership prioritizes long-term...
AI

Winning Strategies for the High-Stakes AI Arena: Unveiling an Innovative AI Research and Development...

By Aurélie Jean, Mark Esposito, Terence Tse and Danny Goh Artificial intelligence and its rapid emergence have proven to be a double-edged sword. While its...

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...
radical uncertainty

How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty

By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
Sounding the alarm

Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate Resilient Businesses

By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, H. James Wilson, and Giju Mathew Last summer’s heatwave in the UK and other European countries put a significant...
AIM Institute

Understanding the Potential of AI in a Technology Driven World

BUY DIGITAL COPY Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...
Graham Bright

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 –...
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...
AI Liberates the Transition to a Skill-Based Organisation

How AI Liberates the Transition to a Skill-Based Organisation

By Jacques Bughin and Jeroen Van Hautte What do companies as diverse as Booking.com, Accenture, Revolut, GSK, Walmart, or Unilever have in common? Answer: they have...
women in leadership

Scandinavian Secure-sharing Software as a Service: The Ultimate Solution for Decision-makers

Interview with Møyfrid Øygard, Managing Director at Admincontrol Admincontrol provides software solutions for secure collaboration and easy sharing of documents in business processes, such as...
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...

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