AI-powered Management Consulting

The New Advisory Stack: A Solution for the Future Crisis of AI-powered Management Consulting

By Mostafa Sayyadi and Luca Collina As AI reshapes advisory work, the real value of management consultants is shifting from analysis to interpretation, relationships, judgment...
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How CEOs Build Businesses Buyers Want to Own

By Matt Andersen Building a business buyers want starts well before the sale begins, with stronger leadership, reliable systems, and less dependence on the founder. After...
Profitable Global Workforce Technology Business

How Transformify Built a Profitable Global Workforce Technology Business Without Venture Capital

Interview with Lily Stoyanov Building a profitable global workforce technology without external capital challenges conventional ideas about scaling, proving that sustainable growth doesn’t have to...
AI in interim management

Why AI Is Becoming Interim Management’s Greatest Strategic Ally

By Prof. Guido Stein and María Belén del Campo AI is transforming interim management by shifting talent strategies from reactive to predictive models, enhancing the...
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The Next AI Advantage Isn’t Optimization. It’s Revaluation.

By Dr. Salima Bhimani AI’s next strategic advantage may lie not in optimizing what companies already do, but in recognizing what their existing assets can...
China embodied AI

China’s Embodied AI Laboratory: What Europe Must Learn

By Massimiliano Ferraris China’s advantage in embodied AI comes from turning factories into learning systems; Europe must capture the same feedback between deployment, data, and...
Fashion as art

Fashion as Art: When Couture Becomes Cultural and Emotional Expression

By Dr. Anna Rostomyan The way people communicate their emotions and aspirations through art and fashion was the theme of the Met Gala 2026, where...
luxury sustainability

Luxury’s Next Competitive Advantage Is Sustainability and Business Transformation

By Dr. Stéphane J.G. Girod Luxury brands have treated sustainability mostly as a cost and a reputational risk management exercise. But the big opportunity is...
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Clinical Strategists: The Leadership in AI-Era Healthcare

By Sayoko Shirai In AI-native healthcare, innovative transformation depends on physicians who translate complexity, build stakeholder trust, and turn strategy into institutional execution. From my work...
Agentic AI Enters Digital Commerce

Musing About Meta Muse? Agentic AI Enters Digital Commerce

By Jacques Bughin What European retailers can learn from the SaaS reinvention playbook. Agentic AI is reshaping digital commerce, shifting retail advantage from websites and traffic...
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The New Era of Document Management: DocuWare Launches new DocuWare

The next-generation document management system brings together a redesigned web and mobile experience, a built-in powerful AI assistant and expanded intelligent document processing. London, United...
Brand Guidelines with AI

The Future of Brand Guidelines is Not Another PDF

By Steve Glasper AI can turn brand guidelines from static rulebooks into living systems that preserve creative coherence while reducing repetitive review. The next generation of...
AI effectiveness

First Effectiveness, Then Efficiency: Why AI Can Make You Fail Faster

By Anne J. Thoresen AI can make organisations move faster, but speed without direction scales weak assumptions, wrong priorities and flawed decisions as efficiently...
early-stage innovation

The Hidden Costs of Getting Early-Stage Innovation Wrong and How to Get it Right

By Coral McConnon Poorly executed early-stage innovation drains money, organisational bandwidth and engagement, but understanding how the brain thinks creatively helps organisations get it right...
Europe's Energy Crisis

Can a Sticker-Sized Sensor Help Solve Europe’s Energy Crisis?

An insight into SureFlow's Electrical Hub Kit, which uses adhesive, self-install sensors and AI-powered technology to bring circuit-level energy monitoring to homes without an...
circular economy

The Circular Paradox: Why Circular Firms Struggle in Europe’s Most Circular Cities

By Dr Nikhilesh Sinha and Satrupa Ghosh Although Europe has the highest number of circular startups1 and its cities lead on circular transition plans, coordination...
Korean Innovation Edge

The Three-Stage Choreography Behind the Korean Innovation Edge

By David Dubois Korean firms turn hierarchy into an innovation engine: framing tightly, experimenting freely, then scaling decisively to convert speed into advantage. David Dubois is...
fashion as non-verbal communication

Fashion as a Means of Non-Verbal Communication: A Scientific Perspective on Emotional Expressions

By Dr. Anna Rostomyan and Dr. Monika Klein Did you know that fashion can be used to express your internal state by communicating non-verbally with...
What Airbnb and Netflix Can Teach Founders About Recurring Revenue

What Airbnb and Netflix Can Teach Founders About Recurring Revenue

By Jimmy Cockerton Two very different companies built empires on revenue that repeats, and their playbook now works for everything from coffee to consultancy. Ask a...
resilient businessman

How to Build a Resilient Business Model in Complex Economies

Interview with Carl Livie, CEO at JustPlay  Building a resilient business model requires leaders to understand what drives value, protect flexibility and adapt before complexity...
personalized brand culture

Culture by Design: How to Build a Brand That Feels Personal at Scale

By Sherjan Husainie Businesses can personalize their brand at scale by creating the right supportive systems and brand-specific frameworks. Customers want brands to feel personal and...
Fashion’s Content photoshoot

Is Fashion’s Content Model Still Fit for Purpose?

By Maísa Benatti Everyone is asking whether AI will replace creative teams, but shouldn't we be asking what creative teams should actually be spending their...
global EdTech

EdTech is the Real Index of AI progress. Here’s Why Governments Should Care

By Janos Barberis  Startup dealflow shows which skills, credentials and entry-level jobs are breaking before official statistics do. Governments that ignore it are flying blind. Governments...
AI Projects Fail in the workplace

Why AI Keeps Disappointing: You Funded a Project but Needed to Ingrain a Practice

By Dr. Patrick Lynch Companies are pouring record sums into AI and capturing almost none of the value. The culprit is project thinking, and there's...
Pricing is Strategy. Commercial Leaders Steer Growth, Sales, and Profit

Pricing is Strategy: How Commercial Leaders Steer Growth, Sales, and Profit

By Muhammad Arslan Qamar In digital businesses, pricing is not a finance formula but a board-level lever that shapes growth, governs sales behavior, and protects...
How Art Fuels Effective Business Development

How Art Can Support Effective New Business Development

By Dr. Peter Lorange There are multiple ways to assess a new business venture – but have you ever thought of evaluating it by reference...
circular design

The Good Plastic Company: Generating Circular Design by Choosing Scalable Waste

By Fernanda Arreola, Dr. Gregory C. Unruh, and Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens Can plastic really be “good”, environmentally speaking? Read about a company founded on the belief...

Moat or Millstone: Can Europe Regulate Its Way to Investable Financial Inclusion?

By Alessandro Hatami Europe’s regulatory drive could become a platform for financial inclusion, helping institutions protect customers while opening commercially valuable underserved markets. For Europe’s financial...
AI compliance

Why AI Compliance Must Start Inside Your Browser

By Matt Smith European businesses are racing to meet EU AI Act obligations, but most are overlooking the place where their greatest governance exposure actually...
European entrepreneurship

The Threat of Europe’s Entrepreneurial Winter

By Filippo Renga and Filippo Frangi Superficially, European innovation and venture capital activity looks to be ticking along quite healthily. However, as Politecnico of Milan’s...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: The Real Challenge Is Not Employment, but...

By Luigi Capoani Artificial intelligence will increase productivity and transform labour markets, but the central challenge is ensuring that its benefits are distributed broadly across...
Making Diagnostic Reasoning - DICOM

Making Diagnostic Reasoning Addressable: The Work That Comes After DICOM

By Dmitry Golitsyn AI can analyze information, but scaling expertise requires something deeper: infrastructure that makes human reasoning collaborative, traceable, and reusable. The first few minutes...
Supply Chain 6.0

Supply Chain 6.0: The Future Generation of Supply Chains

By Guilherme F. Frederico Supply chain operations, having seen a sea change under Supply Chain 4.0, are now getting to grips with new kid on...
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Designing Global Brands Without Flattening Them: Why Cultural Relevance Always Beats Creative Consistency

By Thom Newton In an era of AI-generated sameness, global brands grow by adapting meaningfully to local cultures rather than enforcing uniformity. Many brands today are...
Venture Mode Outperforms Bureaucracy in Modern Business

Why Venture Mode Outperforms Bureaucracy in Modern Business

Interview with Hunter Hastings  Organizations create more value when entrepreneurial leadership replaces bureaucracy, empowering teams to innovate faster and respond directly to customer needs. Hunter Hastings...
enterprise AI

The Verification Economy: The Hidden Cost of Enterprise AI

By Evan Reiss  AI is accelerating content creation, but organisations are discovering that trust, validation, and oversight are becoming the new bottlenecks to productivity.   Artificial...
innovation mindset

Creating an Innovation Mindsense: Changing the Mind of the Corporation

By Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera, and Joanna Seraphim Does your company's marketing target the most relevant part of its customers' brains? Read on to...
fashion AI

The Introduction of Fashion AI and How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Fashion...

By Dr. Anna Rostomyan From trend prediction to hyper-personalization, AI is quietly becoming fashion’s most powerful designer. Like almost every industry, fashion is absorbing the impact...
food packaging

How Packaging Influences Food Quality, Freshness, and Consumer Trust

In today's hyper-competitive food industry, the secret to the success of any food brand lies in delivering its products in a professional way. In...
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Why Enterprise AI Fails at the Final 30%

By Dr. Florian Rehm AI programs rarely fail because models underperform; they fail when organizations cannot redesign decisions, accountability, and workflows around probabilistic systems. Enterprise AI...
EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a Good Start

The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a Good Start. But Does it go Far...

Europe's tech sovereignty ambitions are promising, but stronger action on infrastructure, energy, and delivery timelines is needed to secure digital independence. Last week (June 3, 2026),...
From Black Box to Glass Box: The Future of AI Trust

From Black Box to Glass Box

How Portugal’s largest retailer and a Brazil-born innovation hub are reinventing how stores think. The Bet Two years ago, MC Sonae made a bet. Portugal’s dominant...
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Collective Licensing Can Help Build a More Sustainable AI Economy

By Tom West As scrutiny around the use of unlicensed, copyright-protected content as AI training data grows, collective licensing is emerging as a practical way...
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Transforming Innovation Into the Next Big Thing: Europe Has the Ingredients. Not the Recipe.

By Denis Barrier Europe was at the top of twentieth-century technology. The AI era demands a different model — one that turns financial investment in...
The interaction between humans and AI. Miniature figures represent a team or customers engaging with a robot virtual assistant, symbolizing the future of communication and technology.

The Rearchitected Firm: Moving Beyond Hierarchies in an Age of Agentic AI

By Jacques Bughin As AI begins to coordinate work, not just automate it, firms may evolve from static hierarchies into computationally adaptive organizations. Artificial intelligence is...
AI fixing a problem in business

Are You Asking AI to Fix a Problem that Was Always Structural?

By Stuart J. Green AI makes existing operating models run faster, so what was already misaligned now misfires at machine speed, and the window for...
Europe's engineering and industrial. Europe hidden champion concept

Competing for Control: Why Europe’s Hidden Champions Must Become Hybrid Champions

By Maria Zaffaroni For decades, Europe’s Hidden Champions built global leadership through specialization, engineering precision, and industrial discipline. Yet competition is shifting beyond products toward...
luxury industry trends

The Luxury Paradox: When Heritage Meets Uncertainty

By Dr. Jinju Heo How luxury executives can navigate market complexity without sacrificing brand legacy In an industry built on stability and tradition, luxury brands face...
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Can Meta Remain in the Big Tech Club?

By Igor Pejic Meta is taking its ad machine to the next level, but legal challenges threaten its core business and its AI strategy misses...
ambient listening

How Europe Could Turn Ambient Listening into Competitive Advantage

By Dr. Konstantin Vdovenko and Dr. Katarzyna Byszek-Stevens Europe has a strategic opportunity to ease demands on its healthcare system and simultaneously unlock the potential...