Unlocking Schumpeter. Fostering Innovation Within Our Organizations
By Pedro B. Agua
History has shown that when organizations have approached some threshold concerning their markets saturation, be it by product or process improvements,...
We Have No Other Way than Becoming Digital: 5 Steps to Digital Transformation
By Max Azarov, CEO & Co-founder of Novakid
In 2020, global spending on digital transformation topped $1.3 trillion. That's a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase. There's...
Parts of Business You Need to Transform Now
By Bojana Vojnović
Smart businesses are continuously improving.
And with the huge moves that the pandemic has brought, businesses have been forced to change in more...
Want to Succeed in Business? Get your Culture in Good Shape
Interview with Mr. Ian Johnston, Partner at Heidrick & Struggles
It’s common to refer casually to a company’s “culture”. But what does that really mean...
Best 5 Lease Accounting Software
Lease accounting tasks require accuracy. Make one mistake and you risk becoming non-compliant to rigid accounting standards which leads to hefty penalties among other...
5 Ways to Build an Agile Organization
An agile business model aims at satisfying customer wants through the continuous delivery of valuable goods and services. It's a customer-centric organization that transforms...
Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures Needed for Success in a Post Covid Hybrid Workplace
By Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic
The global pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives including the way that we are now working. As organisations are...
Why Resurfacing the Forgotten Dimension of Diversity is a Business-Critical Priority
By Jon Chan, Gráinne Bryan and Nina Mohadjer, FTI Technology
A recent Harvard Business Review article claimed that the most often forgotten dimension of diversity is social class. While more...
Five Post-Pandemic Questions For Employers
While it has been around a year and a half since Covid-19 first began to disrupt daily life, many of us still remain confused...
How have business priorities changed pre- and post-Covid?
By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz
The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK.
In a life before Covid, businesses...
Customer Obsession Is Today’s Transformation Imperative
By Shirley Macbeth, Chief Marketing Officer, Forrester
Who drives transformation in your business? After years of fighting for a seat at the boardroom table, the...
Building Businesses in a Pandemic, the Smart Way
Modern technology is dazzling, powerful, and has countless applications, but can it be used to help HR teams make hiring decisions, which traditionally involve...
Five Critical Aspects of a Successful Transformation from Matrix to Agile
By Yves Doz and Maria Guadalupe
Created in the 2000s by software developers, the Agile way of working is fast becoming the defining approach across...
Quantum Leadership for Recovery
By Vlatka Hlupic
Even before the advent of the global pandemic necessitated a rethink of leadership models, the world of work managed by the old...
5 Tips to Manage your Hospitality Business post-COVID
The time has come – this is the moment that the entire hospitality industry has been waiting for. As the world relieves itself from...
The A-Z Guide to Corporate Culture for Leaders
The phrase corporate culture has become a trend in the business world. Company culture is an essential factor for hiring and retaining top talent...
How Duty of Care Became Top Priority for Businesses
CEO of risk intelligence company Riskline, Kennet Nordlien, shares his first-hand experience of responding to businesses’ needs during the pandemic
Duty of care is now...
Client Advisory: How To Cultivate The Ultimate Consultant For Real-World Strategies That Work
By Leon Gauhman
Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how clients can sidestep endemic problems in the consultancy sector, vetting...
From Surviving to Thriving: Business after Coronavirus
At the beginning of 2020, many people found it difficult to adapt to some of the changes due to the pandemic. Everyone can tell...
How to Encourage Innovation in Your Business
Innovation is more than a business buzzword that is currently in vogue; it is a hugely valuable concept that has actually been around for...
4 Tips for Successful Adoption of New Technology
What good is an investment in the latest technologies if no one within the organization uses it? This is all too common in practice...
Internalising Values in Organisations
By William S. Harvey, Sharina Osman and Marwa E.A. Tourky
We read a lot about the importance of organisations being led by their values, but...
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...
Soft Skills: Key To Leadership In A Changed World
Interview with Gina Lodge, CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Nobody knows for certain what the post-COVID business world will look like...
Seven Lessons From Crisis Communications During the Pandemic
By Adnan Bashir
If you happen to be a marketing or communications practitioner, chances are that the first half of 2020 was a whirlwind time...
Time for change: Why the consulting sector needs a new commercial ethos
By Leon Gauhman
Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at Elsewhen, explores how big consulting can revive its damaged reputation in the wake of bungled Covid-19...
Getting back to the office, what are the next steps?
It’s been almost a year since office spaces were left deserted and replaced with the majority of the UK working from home.
With the benefits...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley
Abstract
“We are at a critical turning point in human history! We...
4 Ways COVID Will Change Business Forever
By Samantha Rupp
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From how and where we work to the ways...
Charlene Li: Driving Digital Transformation with Resilient Leaders
The growth in the global digital transformation has never been greater. Even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, many organisations were struggling to keep pace...
WOBI announces the first 100% online seminar with Tom Peters taking place on June...
This is the first of many digital events to come that will seek to positively impact the business world.
WOBI is hosting its first 100%...
How Gino Pozzo Transformed Watford FC Football Club
Having earned an impeccable reputation for taking lackluster lower-division football clubs and leading them into the top flight leagues in each of their home...
Strategic Change in Banking from Pre- to Post-Crisis: Evidence from Europe, North...
By Boris Liedtke and David Young
Introduction
Economic and financial crises often lead to profound changes in the way businesses, and especially financial institutions, are managed....
The Cyber-Organisation and the New World of Work: Advocating a twin governance...
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
This paper explores the concept of the cyber-organisation and, in particular, the so-called cyber-enterprise...
Data-driven Decision Making that Uses Data, Mind and Heart
Interview with Heine Krog Iversen, CEO and Founder of TimeXtender
TimeXtender’s mission is to help companies to extract the maximum-possible advantage from their data resources...
Taming complexity with intelligence: a movement to help businesses along the SAP S/4HANA...
Interview with Mr. Bjoern Braemer, SVP & Global Head of the SAP S/4HANA Movement
SAP S/4HANA is the digital core that is enabling organisations around...
The Coach Route to Transformation: Helping Individuals and Organisations to Arrive at their Full...
Interview with Ms Gina Lodge CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Businesses across all industries have discovered that executive coaching is one of...
Moving from Data and Knowledge to Competitive Advantage
By Mostafa Sayyadi
Once the important paradigm of knowledge management was accepted by both the scholars of the academy of management and executives, knowledge cycle...
Banishing Self-Doubt to Promote Female Success
By Lucy Franklin
Women are still less likely to reach the top levels of management – only 9% of the financial and professional services companies...
Going for gold! Five decades of business transformation, Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary
2019 is the year Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary as a world-leading business transformation specialist. Founded in 1969, as man first set foot...
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...
Scaling Agility: The Fuel that Drives the Organisation’s Digital Transformation
Interview with Professor Stijn Viaene
In today’s rapidly-changing corporate world, it’s imperative for businesses and organisations to respond and adapt more quickly than ever before....
Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise
By Mostafa Sayyadi
There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately, the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In...
Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation
By Yazeed Alhezzani
It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
How Technology is Transforming Education
Technology has long been changing the world and today’s society is shifting to become a Cyber Reality. The good news is that this shift...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín
How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...
How To Design an Ambidextrous Organisation
By Jonathan Trevor and Peter Williamson
How can leaders today design and manage their organisation to make it deliver both efficiency and flexibility? The authors...
Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan
By Ginka Toegel
Ikigai– in Japanese it means, loosely, “what makes life worth living.” If reforms by the Shinzō Abe government succeed, it may one day...
How can Organisations Manage their Reputations in Response to Threats?
By William S. Harvey, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, and Hongqin Li
In the face of danger, every individual is designed to react almost subconsciously and...