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This category is Emerging Ideas, showcasing groundbreaking concepts, disruptive innovations, and forward-thinking strategies. It features expert insights on new business models, technological advancements, and visionary ideas shaping the future of industries and global markets.

The Definitive Guide to Starting a Corporate Intrapreneurship Program

You can’t go to a conference these days without talking about innovation and you can’t talk about innovation without talking some of the usual...

Reinventing Management

 By Julian Birkinshaw What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...

Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace

By Ari Kaplan The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...

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...
corporate foresight

Building a future-proof company – Four cornerstones of transformative corporate foresight

By Nando Malmelin, Matti Pihlajamaa and Pauli Komonen The article provides a new framework to manage and develop corporate foresight, guiding strategic thinking and business...

How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation

By Kieren McCarthy Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
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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...

What Governments Need to Understand About Ethical AI

By Josh Entsminger, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Terence Tse, and Danny Goh The increasing application of artificial intelligence across the value chain reflects that such a technological development provides...

What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper

By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...

Beyond the Hateful 8

By Steven P. MacGregor  Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...

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...
A Winning Deal

A Winning Deal: How Biculturals Can Supercharge Your International Business Negotiations

By Priyan Khakhar and Jasmina Najjar Transform how you approach international business negotiations with new findings that provide a novel contribution to the field. Discover...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Fixing the Triple Helix

By Adam J Bock and David Johnson In knowledge-intensive fields, new ventures live or die within entrepreneurial ecosystems. This article shows how policymakers can...
Claus Risager

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...

Merck Innovation Cup 2021

From June 26th – July 2nd, 2021, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a vibrant science & technology company with a more than 350 years long history, will be hosting...

The Biases That Derail Open Innovation Initiatives

By Oguz A. Acar Everyone loves an innovative idea, until they do not. According to Oguz Acar, “Idea novelty promotes acceptance up to a point;...
Europe's path to reinvention

Accelerating Europe’s Path to Reinvention

By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk and Laura Wright Despite the challenging business environment, European executives are optimistic about their organization's future growth. By embracing Total...

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...

2025 Outlook: HR Trends Shaping Work in 2025 

By Sirsha Haldar  With 2025 quickly approaching, businesses are grappling with the pace of change that is already taking place in the workplace. In this...

On The Trail with the Idea Hunters

By Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer, with William Bole High-value ideas are not necessarily created. More often than not, they are already out there, waiting to...

Covid-19, Stress, Self-Esteem, Values, and Psychological Well-being: How to Assess Risks of Becoming Depressed,...

By Dr. Simon L. Dolan and Dr. Salvador Garcia Sanchez A few years back, we published several books dealing with Stress, Self -Esteem, Health and...

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

By Herminia Ibarra In this excerpt from her book, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Herminia Ibarra discusses what she describes as the...

5 AI-Based Business Ideas to Impress Investors and Get Funds for Your Startup

By Anastasiia Molodoria One of the critical components of running a startup is cornering the market with a unique and innovative value proposition. If you...
Sustainable Development

Taking the Circular Way to Sustainable Development: Interview with Outi Suomi of Business Finland

Finland leads the comparison tables in attaining the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and is ahead of its European rivals in taking up digitalisation. Business...

Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...

By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...

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”...
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Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3

By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion For years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets, reaching over $601 billion globally in...

Your Seventh Sense: Beyond Mindfulness

By William Duggan In this article, Willian Duggan explores the practice of Free Your Mind, a way to turn stress into strategy and to turn...

Rethinking Future Higher Education

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek “Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.”   The world around...

The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet

By Ray Schroeder We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
Future of Work

Imagining a Shared Journey into the Future of Work

By Simon L. Dolan, Kristine Marin Kawamura, Mario Raich, and Dave Ulrich Work enables us to create value for ourselves and others. In our forthcoming...

Getting Face Time

By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
Ole Lola

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...

DVC Framework: Accelerating Digital Value Creation

By Dr Mike Cooray and Dr Rikke Duus In this article, we present the Digital Value Creation (DVC) framework. The DVC framework can be used...
AI Chat

Are AI Companions the Next Broad Application of Artificial Intelligence?

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor From help with coding and finances to emotional support and personalized recommendations, are we all getting personal AI assistants...

Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management

By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr. Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...

Design Your Life: Leveraging Design Thinking For Better Executive Health

By Steven P. MacGregor Why does management development focus almost solely on the neck up, when the demands placed on managers and executives touch every...

Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Values: New Challenges for Mental Health Professionals in the...

By Simon L. Dolan and Tom Dolan The co-authors of this article are 30 years apart in age, genetically bonded as biological father and son,...

Collaborative Creativity: Leading High Performance through Theatre

By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...

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”,...

Sharing Business Ownership to Execute Your Strategy

By Felix Barber and Michael Goold Co-owners sharing business rewards do not need to take on the same mix of responsibilities; instead, to create more...

What is Bitcoin, and what are the reasons behind its rising popularity?

The world today has become a highly digital play, and the ways of doing things have changed spectacularly. It is a way of doing...

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...
Research Challenges

MERCK PRESS RELEASE – 2022 Research Challenges

Over the recent decades, the creation, discovery, and use of science and technology have become increasingly important to all sectors of society. At the...

Envisioning the Opportunities Presented by the Resource Revolution

By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers Conventional wisdom predicts stagnating economic growth, extreme resource depletion, accelerating commodity price inflation, and increasing pollution as consuming classes...

The Bumpy Road to Business Model Innovation: Overcoming Cognitive and Organisational Barriers

By Nicolai Foss & Tina Saebi Although proven that innovating a company’s business model can significantly increase performance, a majority of companies fail to do...

Building Sustainability into Real Estate

By Joanna Radeke, Alexander Boether, and Alexandre Bezzera Both residents and shareholders enjoy the right returns when real estate companies collaborate and innovate for environmental...
Assessment

People Assessment in the Digital Age

By Adrian Furnham How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...

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...

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