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...
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...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
By Adrian Furnham
Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
Mobile Technology Meets Social Innovation: Reflections on progress and challenges
By Ken Banks
Talk is good, or so they say. But too much talk and not enough action isn’t. After working for the past twelve...
How an Accelerator can Catalyse your Ecosystem
By Pekka Sivonen, Paolo Borella, Llewellyn D W Thomas and Dmitry Sharapov
Many industries from IT to car manufacturing, robotic and biotechnology, competition is moving...
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...
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...
Aargau, Switzerland – The Centre for High-Tech Industries
Welcome to Aargau – the Swiss high-tech canton with a Triple A rating. In Aargau, where the number of people working in R&D is...
Behavioral Strategy: Thoughts and Feelings in the Decision-making Process, the Unconscious and the Company’s...
By Claudia Nagel
It is evident that the psychology of the decision-making person – to a certain extent the human factor – plays an important...
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...
Aargau – The Swiss High-Tech Canton in Hot Pursuit of Silicon Valley
"Hightech Aargau" is a program of the Aargau government to encourage innovation and growth. With that, the canton of Aargau aims to become the...
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...
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...
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...
The Rise of the Mobility Maker
Forward-thinking fleet managers can spark sustainable change by re-evaluating their roles and pursuing a new approach to Business Mobility.
Just a few years ago, the...
Reinvention: Critical to Business Success, but not Always Obvious
By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
The Dawn of a New Era in Business Computing
By David Stokes
In 2013 it was estimated that 90% of all of the data in the world had been generated in the preceding two...
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...
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...
Opening the Eyes of the Digitally Myopic!
By Eric Duffaut
There are none so blind as those who will not see. They’ll probably go bankrupt too. It has never been easier to...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
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...
The World Business Forum New York
By Henrietta Morris “We have to unlearn what we think we know about leadership.” – Linda Hill This was the message, in this instance boldly stated
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...
The End of Competitive Advantage
Interview with Rita McGrath
The European Business Review talks to Forbes’ #6 most influential business thinker, Rita McGrath, about innovation, the end of competitive advantage,...
How We Teach: Innovation
Interview with Bangor Business School
In our quest to keep you up to date with the latest research in business education, we talk to John...
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
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...
Growth Through Innovation: Innovation Principles for the Technology-Driven Enterprise
By R. Boutellier and M. Heinzen
Technology is the key to our growth, but with it comes many risks. Below, Roman Boutellier and Mareike Heinzen...
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...
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...
Public-Value Exchanges – New Platforms for Matching Capital to Social Need
By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan
New models of exchange are critical to the solution economy. They hold the secret to attracting capital of...
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...
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...
Demographic Changes in the Workplace
By Andrés Hatum
The global ageing population and the new generation of young professionals entering the market are changing the shape of the workplace. Companies...
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...
Designing Luxury Experience
By Vadim Grigorian and Francine Espinoza Petersen
In luxury brand management, experiences are essential. However, most of what we know about designing customer experiences originates...
Smart Specialisation and Economic Opportunity in the South West
By Richard Ball
The city of Exeter is proactively developing its credentials as a true exponent of “smart specialisation”, one of the pillars of the...
People: A Key to Innovation Capability
By Scott J. Edgett
Top performing companies recognise that successful innovation is inherently complex. Below, Scott J. Edgett argues that no matter how much...
Want More Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship? Go Low-Tech!
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
Promoting entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a way to revive stagnant economies. Below, Terence Tse and Mark Esposito argue...
Delivering Innovation in Unified Communications
The business world is one of constant change. Technology lets us reach colleagues, customers, and partners whenever and wherever needed; yet each innovation brings...
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,...
Staying Power: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
In December 2005, I was invited by Oxford University to deliver the 2009 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies and then 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...
How to Boost the Insight Generation Power of Your Workforce in Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore
In a knowledge society, a company’s competitive advantage derives from the capability to generate and apply insights to innovation. Below, Alessandro...
Stop the Nonsense! Innovation is a Discipline.
By Jay Rao
For most firms, innovation is more a slogan or aspiration than a managed practice. Below, Jay Rao shows that for the best...
A Framework for Organizational Storytelling
By Janis Forman
Taken from chapter 2 of Storytelling in Business: The Authentic and Fluent Organization, this excerpt focuses on the importance of authenticity, the...
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...
