Change Management

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...

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%...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Lucy Franklin Women are still less likely to reach the top levels of management – only 9% of the financial and professional services companies...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...

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...

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...

By William S. Harvey, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, and Hongqin Li In the face of danger, every individual is designed to react almost subconsciously and...

A glimpse of Oliver Wight EAME's alliance with Ernst & Young LLP   As the supply chain becomes more complex, there is a growing need for...

What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...

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...

By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...

By Stijn Viaene Professor Stijn Viaene sheds light on the essential role of strategy in the digital age. The article further elaborates on what really...

By Braden Kelley Building a company is not as simple as having the right amount of money. More than having a business plan, creating a...

By Stephen J. Andriole Digital transformation is about efficiency and competitiveness. It requires a deep understanding of current and emerging business processes and models and...

By John C. Camillus A firm’s Identity – its core values, enduring aspirations and distinctive competencies – is intended to guide management’s decision making. This...

By Jonathan Trevor Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...

By Tina Saebi, Lasse Lien and Nicolai Foss Business models define how companies create, deliver and capture value. But business models are not static –...

By Paul Argenti In the last century, large corporations have expanded in size, reach, and complexity. To keep employees aligned strategically, management must dedicate resources...

By John Sutherland You cannot build successful transformation in a hurry. The best transformation projects are slow-cooked, not microwaved. In this article, John Sutherland introduces...

By Douglas Ready Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation has proven to be troubling – well-regarded consultancies’ research can back this up. In this article, Doug Ready discusses...

By David Dubois Leading an organisation’s digital transformation simultaneously entails driving change within three key pillars of one’s business: intelligence (competitive insights); integration (organisational structure...

By Chris Outram These ten principles for success will steer the most digitally ambitious organisations (pure-play or hybrid) safely along on the road to digital...

By Warren Shiver and Michael Perla For a sales organisation to reach its “ideal transformational advantage” it needs to pull the right levers in...

How Organisations Can Embrace Automation By Leslie Willcocks In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...

By John Mattone In this article, John Mattone discusses how progressive leaders in the business world are moving away from a conventional leadership culture and...

By David Miller and Audra Proctor The volume and complexity of change that organizations are facing continues to increase, and they cannot risk the negative...

By Walter McFarland This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...

By Audra Proctor No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...

By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...

By Bart Tkaczyk Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...

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...

By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...

By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...

By Jack Calhoun It’s not simply having a good idea that separates marketplace winners from losers – it’s possessing the ability to execute. In fact,...

By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...

Mindset Tribe By Sean Culey Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...

By David Miller Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change...