Business Model

This category is Business Model, exploring innovative strategies, revenue models, and operational frameworks that drive business success. It features expert insights on sustainability, scalability, and adaptation in an ever-evolving economic landscape.

Business Paper

Guy El Khoury: How to Innovate in the Payments Sector

Guy Raymond El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial, talks about innovation in the global payments sector. Guy El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial and...
China

Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?

By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...

Building the smarter future of banking & financial services

By Alexey Chalimov The entire industry of financial services in 2021 is undergoing massive digitalization. New technologies allow for better personalization for customers and effective optimization...
Manage the Human Side of Innovation

Manage the Human Side of Innovation: Tools to Help Your Team Succeed

By Stefano Mastrogiacomo For companies to keep pace with the current upheavals, good teamwork and thus the relationships between team members are crucial for team...

Are NFTs a True Store of Value?

For someone new to the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain, the rapid growth of interest in the non-fungible token (NFT) and its trading volume...
branded lyocell fiber

Lenzing sets a milestone towards climate neutrality with the first CO2 neutral VEOCEL™ branded...

Almost two years ago Lenzing CEO Stefan Doboczky announced the company’s goal to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50 percent till 2030 and be...
Startup

The Psychology of Start-Ups

By Adrian Furnham Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
stakeholders

Company Brands as Purpose-driven Lived Experience Ecosystems

By Venkat Ramaswamy and Nicholas Ind With the COVID-19 pandemic curbing global travel in the first quarter of 2020, Airbnb, which had taken twelve years...
ecommerce

Destination taxability and its impacts for EU e-commerce

By Christiaan van der Valk Changes are on the horizon for import tax this July as the EU rolls out the 2021 EU VAT e-commerce...
SmileDirectClub

SmileDirectClub FY 2020 and Q4 Results Confirm Strength of Its Business Model

More than eight years ago, SmileDirectClub introduced itself to the world as a practical solution to orthodontal care. A decade earlier, when both were in...
NICOLE

The Agritech innovators looking to solve tomorrow’s problems

Global food production will have to increase to match a growing population, but with available land declining, the old ways won’t meet that demand....
apps

Lessons Learned from 3 Million Downloads & 250,000 Monthly Users in 2 Years

By Tim Waldenback Why do some apps experience explosive growth while others fail shortly after launch? While the media likes to report about the apps...

Strategies During Pandemic for Restaurant and Café Businesses Using Business Model Canvas

By Johannes Boroh There are many articles about business strategies on coping with the COVID-19 pandemic published in various journals, magazines, newspapers, and so forth....
toys

How to be Successful in an Adult eCommerce Niche?

More than ever, shoppers are turning towards eCommerce for their needs. After all, it’s far more convenient to order something online and receive a...
green business

Turning a Company Green Can Be a Win-Win for Your Business Model

It may be incredibly fulfilling to run a business yourself, but at the end of the day, you started your company to make money. ...
Focus on Value

Focus on Value: What Your Company Does Matters more than Where It Sits

By Rachael Bartels and Kathleen O’Reilly Companies everywhere must find new sources of value creation both inside and outside traditional industry boundaries. For decades, industry definitions...

The Integration Of AI And Big Data Transformed The Healthcare Industry

By Samantha Kaylee Technology is the main reason why firms are performing better during the pandemic, but do you know healthcare organizations are also turning...

What Banking Sector Can Gain the Most from Digital Innovations?

Digital innovations have disrupted numerous industries, and banking is no exception. Digitalisation has introduced us to online banking, contactless payments, and many other services.Banks...

Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Peter Lorange The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions.  Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...

3 Important Dynamics Of Business Environment

The business environment comprises of all the factors that affect and support the business activities. It consists of both internal factors as well as...

The Sectors Which Spent the Most on Innovation in 2020

In order to stay ahead of the game, innovation is key. This is a lesson successful businesses not only recognize but continually apply, and...

Why Market With 3D Viewing Software

3D is a word that peoples been hearing throughout the technology world, film industry, and other marketplaces for a number of years now. Ever...

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...

Exchanging Social Media Accounts – The Hype Lives up to RESULTS

The practice of purchasing and selling social media accounts has become main stream. Whether for business or personal-venture endeavors, exchanging social media accounts has become...

Linking profit and purpose doesn’t just do good: It can boost the bottom line,...

By Gavin Willis Almost 10 years ago I founded my digital marketing agency, Search Seven. At the time I was clear that I was starting...

Zilch raises $10m to scale its unique BNPL Anywhere offering

1st September 2020, London – Zilch announces $10m in new funding to continue scaling its unique over-the-top Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) business. The London-based...

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...

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...

Contentful – What is Content as a Service?

Businesses use the content as a service (CaaS) model to increase their profits while giving more options to their customers. CaaS means that your...

Key Changes In Management: Implications From The Corona Crisis, Particularly On Family Businesses And...

By Dr. Peter Lorange   Introduction In this paper I shall discuss what I see as some major implications for management practices when it comes to several...

Business After COVID 19: What Will Change

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, businesses have been turned upside down in almost all aspects. Most have been forced to send a...

Finding New Products by Vision: Eurodrug Innovates in a Sector Dominated by “Big Pharma”

How does a medium-sized company stand out in a highly concentrated market with rapidly increasing capital requirements? Eurodrug is an international pharmaceutical company active...

How the Next Wave of Innovators will Change the Fabric of the World

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier and Vedrana Savic The next wave of innovation will see products and services combining technology from across the digital, physical and biological...

Partnering to Grow in the Digital Era

By Ina Sebastian, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner For many companies today the most important goal is growth. One of the big opportunities for achieving...
industrial manufacturing trends

The Current Frontier in Industrial Manufacturing: Bringing Software Systems to Market

By Bianca Schmitz, Olaf Plötner, Viktor Jarotschkin and Johannes Habel Industrial manufacturers increasingly market software systems that help customers optimize value chain processes. However, many...
Businessman drawing global structure

Customer-Driven Disruption

By Suman Sarkar Suman Sarkar has advised leaders at dozens of disrupting Fortune 500 companies. Executives, he says, focus too much on technology and short-term...
commercialising intellectual property

3-steps to Commercialising Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries

By Gene Shill The value of intangible goods is making an unprecedented contribution to the global economy as the world becomes progressively digitised, with many...
online survey

Best Ways To Earn Extra Money This Year

Everybody needs extra cash. There are always more bills to pay, things that need to be bought for the kids or yourself, and repairs...

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...
TRIP framework

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...

The Future of Digital Identity Verification 

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...
innovation culture framework

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....

Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?

By Jean-Noël Kapferer As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
Corporate Venturing: Challenges and Best Practices of Large Firms Innovating with Start-ups

Corporate Venturing: Challenges and Best Practices of Large Firms Innovating with Start-ups

By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Celeste Saccomano, Tommaso Canonici and Xavier Contijoch Innovation in large corporations, particularly the practice of corporate venturing to innovate with start-ups, is...
NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential

NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven Optimisation Unlocks Freemium Business Models’ Real Potential

By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...
Innovation

An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True

By Ulrich A.K. Betz, VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and open...
The Right Business Model At The Right Time

The Right Business Model At The Right Time

By Adam Bock and Gerard George The combination of globalisation, Moore’s law and ubiquitous information have transformed industries into fluid, rapidly-changing landscapes. Today’s competitor is tomorrow’s...

Fun & Games: Business Models for Innovation

By Gregory Gimpel While many brilliant ideas come from start-ups with unsustainable business models, well-established firms suffer from an inability to innovate, especially in regulated...

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...

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...

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