Innovation Strategy
By Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias
Many top level executives are still hopelessly behind when it comes to designing an effective innovation strategy in the...
Four Truths About Marketing Lady Gaga
By Mathieu Deflem
‘There can be no fame attained, nor any accompanying revenue acquired, in any career based on artistic or other intrinsically valid accomplishments...
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
The Solution Economy: A New Way to Solve Social Problems
By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan
In recent years an entire economy of societal problem solvers have emerged to tackle old problems in new...
Agile Business Model Innovation
By Adam J. Bock and Gerry George
Business model innovation(BMI) is risky, but when companies do it with agility, they thrive. This article looks at...
The Innovator’s Method
By Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer
Innovation is about uncertainty and nonstandard processes, so why is it that management literature and advice still deals...
Creativity at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Creativity is not an easy topic to research and few serious scientists conduct work in the area. First, creativity is difficult to...
The Magic of Innovation
By Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal
Why do certain product and service experiences seem to have that undeniable “wow” factor, while others disappoint customers? Perhaps...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
From Great to Gone
By Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski
New consumers demand a new breed of innovations in the products and services they are using. Below, Peter Lorange...
The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Collaborative Innovation as Ultimate Driver of Growth
By Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
Entrepreneurship is the key to economic growth, and right now, Europe’s economy difficulties need solutions. This article discusses the...
Getting a Job In 2025
By Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade.
Even with my own three decades...
Mindfulness, Mindlessness, and Work
By Michael Pirson
While mindfulness was originally developed as an individual concept, it has been transferred to the organisational level in the context of research...
Why The Circular Economy Matters
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani
A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...
Managing Paradox: the discipline of strategic execution
By Andrew Binns and Wendy Smith
When a business faces the paradox between transforming for the future and securing its current market position, leading change...
Innovative Technologies in Aviation Logistics
Due to the fierce competition caused by the economic downturn, rising fuel costs and growing customer demand, airfreight companies are forced to look for...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
Creating Collaborative Advantage
By John Sutherland
Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
The Secret Life of Crowdfunding
By Adam J. Bock and Denis Frydrych
Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...
The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...
By Albert Meige
An analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words – Why Adaptive Non-Verbal Communication is a Key Leadership...
By Dr Connson Locke
Non-verbal communication is extremely influential in interpersonal encounters, and knowing how to leverage non-verbal signals effectively can be a key leadership...
Innovating Beyond the Familiar
By Patrick Barwise & Seán Meehan
Don’t be overawed by Apple – your company too can innovate beyond the familiar. This isn’t about “blue-sky thinking”,...
The Odds of Successful Entrepreneurship: How to Overcome the Holy Grail Syndrome
By Tijs Besieux
In this article, Tijs Besieux discusses the four steps to overcoming the Holy Grail Syndrome, which could hinder an entrepreneur’s road...
Innovation: A Critical Capability
By Scott J. Edgett
An organisation that believes in the importance of innovation takes the steps necessary to ensure it is a top performer. Below,...
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...
Assessing Your Level Of Preparedness In 10 Key Domains1
By Simon L. Dolan, Alex Makarevich and Kristine Marin Kawamura
This article describes 10 key dimensions that...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Privacy Risks of Big Data
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier
In Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier...
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will Shape Strategy
By Mike Canning & Eamonn Kelly
The need for bold strategies to capitalise on the dynamism of our times has never been greater. Below, Mike...
Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be In The Business of Learning
By Edward D. Hess
The velocity of business change will increase over the next decade driven by technology advances making the speed and quality of...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
Invisible Capital and Why We Need to Democratize Entrepreneurial Opportunity
By Chris Rabb
Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking
By Richard Ball
As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
5 Smart Ways to Increase Europe’s “AIQ”
By Francis Hintermann, Madhu Vazirani, and Carsten Lexa
At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
The Appearance of Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Elisa Farri and Andrea Segnalini
Developing innovation capabilities is no longer enough. For organisations, innovation marketing is the next frontier.
Appearances are...
To Find Value in the Digital Age, Find It for Others First
By Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore
To grow their businesses consistently, leaders must envision a much bigger picture of where value resides than...
Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective. Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...
Mastering Innovation in Family Firms: How to Resolve the Ability vs. Willingness Paradox
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources
By Christophe Sempels and Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
How High-End Disruption Completes the Disruptive Innovation Model
By Juan Pablo Vazquez Sampere
Why don’t we have an integrated mechanism of entrepreneurship to consistently make new companies successful? Turns out that the Disruption...
A Call for Corporate Entrepreneurship
By Jim Dewald
Jim Dewald discusses the processes towards corporate entrepreneurship which are needed for organisations to achieve longevity and success in the evolving market.
I...
Beyond Markets: Entrepreneurship in the Civil Society
By Pablo Munoz
Entrepreneurship, as a societal phenomenon, is not embedded in those abstractions we call markets, but rather in what we do daily, oftentimes...
Walking the New Corridors of Power: Positioning your Business for the Era of Emerging-Market...
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes, Armen Ovanessoff & Kuangyi Wei
Over the past decade, the corridors of trade and investment have increasingly been occupied by...
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As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global trade dynamics will be crucial to long-term success. So will...
“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
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Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose the type of gossip to engage in. Enter, reverse backstabbing,...
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