How Competitive Intelligence Can Keep You Ahead In Rapidly Changing Markets
By Fernando Mendez
Disruptive technologies are currently driving business transformation at a relentless pace. Seemingly overnight, yesterday’s second tier (or even third tier) companies can become...
How Can Businesses Cultivate High Performance and Harness it for Success?
By Sarfraz Ali
In this article, Smartsheet’s Sarfraz Ali takes a deep dive into high-performance – what it is and what drives it, how businesses...
Translating into Success: Strategies to Grow your Company
It is every entrepreneur’s dream to see his or her company grow from infancy to a big and reputable brand one day. However, while...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
Social Media Strategy: Learning from the Online Cola War
By Fang Liu and Willem Smit
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi1 has been one of the longest and most arduous in the history of...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
Summary
Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
How Covid-19 has affected Business
Covid-19 is affecting virtually everyone around the world, some more than others, but there is direct and indirect links between each and how it...
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...
How Western Multinationals Can Organise to Win in Emerging Markets
By Vimal Choudhary, Martin Dewhurst & Alok Kshirsagar
As Western multinationals shift their focus to emerging markets, they must adjust their structures, processes, and decision-making...
Best of All Worlds: Hybrid Models of Public-Service Delivery
By Tim Cooper & Matthew Robinson
Governments around the world are facing increasing pressures on all fronts. From Europe to Japan to the United States,...
The Ultimate Guide to The Enterprise Sales Process
By Jessica Day
Enterprise sales is a great trade to be in. It comes with thrilling challenges and gives you plenty of space to play...
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...
DAFZA Offers Highly Developed Infrastructure and Quality Services to European Companies
Established in 1996 as a part of the Dubai Government’s strategic plan to be an investment driven economy, DAFZA is one of the fastest...
When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)
By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis
Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...
How Organisations Can Overcome Conflicting Identity and Reputation
By William Harvey, Tim Morris and Milena Santos
Based on their examination of how an organisation responds when its identity is substantially misaligned with the...
What causes managers to change their business model?
By Tina Saebi, Lasse Lien and Nicolai Foss
Business models define how companies create, deliver and capture value. But business models are not static –...
Transcreation vs Translation Services: Which One Does Your Business Need?
Although you may hear transcreation and translation used interchangeably, they’re two vastly different services with unique purposes.
One is a creative marketing technique that can...
How Corporations Can Partner With Startups In Emerging Markets
By Shameen Prashantham
Mingke Luo is a young Shanghai-based entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of MrS.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
The Growth of Golden Visa and Residency Programs
In recent times, Golden Visa and residency programs have become very popular, with thousands of immigrants turning to them as a way to gain...
Does The Ukraine-Russia Conflict Really Have an Impact On Outsourcing Software Development to Ukraine?
By Oleksii Tsymbal, Chief Innovation Officer at MobiDev
You have probably heard about Ukraine in the latest worldwide news for nearly three months now due...
Mission, Vision, Values: A Blueprint For Success
By Ken Gavranovic and Lee Atchison excerpted from their book BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH 3.0
Sam Goldwyn reportedly said that a verbal contract isn’t worth the paper...
Culture Is Still ‘‘a Thing’’: On Why It’s So, but Shouldn’t Be
By Ernst Graamans
The time has come to see culture in business settings in a new light – not as a ‘‘collective programming of the...
Alexander Galitsky: From a Theoretical Physicist to a Global Investor
Alexander Galitsky wanted to become a journalist in childhood and sold electric guitars. Today he’s the founder of one of the most successful investment...
Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige
By Klaus Heine and Francine Espinoza Petersen
Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
COVID-19 Effect on Corporate Law
The new virus that affects the respiratory system was explored in the Far East in the winter of 2019. Since it started spreading quickly,...
Starting a Business Overseas: Everything You Need To Know
There literally exists many reasons for starting a business overseas. This may be due to the fact that as a business owner, you have...
Three Steps to Getting on Track in the Race to Net Zero
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra and Monique de Ritter
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow saw a welcome spate of...
How To Make International Business Partners
Starting a business is always risky, it takes a lot of planning and effort. Business owners put their money in an idea that they...
The Most Favourable European Countries for Cryptocurrencies
Introduction
The rules and regulations of cryptocurrencies vary from country to country. In most of the European countries, digital currencies are legal, and many merchants...
Start-Ups Are Changing the Continent’s Narrative: A Short Guide to Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Ecosystem
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review
While some say the African start-up scene is overhyped, no one can dispute its...
Buying Market Share With Supply Chain
By Richard Markoff and Ralf W. Seifert
In an effort to meet customer demands and gain greater market share, companies offer non-monetary benefits in supply...
5 Ways Trump or Clinton Could Make Government Run More Like a Business
By Howard Schweitzer
Applying business concepts to government is not a fantasy. With the right leader, a heavy dose of patience and good ideas, government...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
Cross-border commerce post-Brexit: Lost in translation?
By Augustin Prot
Whichever side of the various Brexit arguments you took, the departure of the UK from the EU has added a new degree...
Why Top Fintech Firms Are Aspiring to Build Diversity
Diversity and inclusion are hugely important for all employment sectors - but in few industries as much as in fintech. Leaders in the fintech...
Dubai Airport Freezone Authority Attracts International Investors Ahead of Expo 2020
Many overseas businesses are already aware of the advantages Dubai has to offer. For nearly twenty years, Dubai Airport Freezone Authority has been offering...
Competitive Advantage Rewired
By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...
Strategising for the Future
By Joan E. Ricart and Carlos Rey
In this article the authors discuss how organisations can better strategise for the future by integrating and balancing...
Copyright Infringement By AI Companies: The Fate Of Copyright Owners.
By LineaBlu Lawyers
Will AI be tamed? Will it halt the benefits humans have grown to welcome? These questions are in the corners of the...
Medical Cannabis: Benefiting from a Growth Industry
Cannabis has long been known for its benefits for medicinal purposes, although its use in that context is still a legal minefield in many...
The 3 W’s Growth Dilemmas: What, When & Where?
By Mª Julia Prats
How do you go from one store in 2006 to 44 (and 28 concessions) in six countries today? Clever experimentation to...
Crossing Cultural Barriers to Achieve Superior Team Results
Interview with Bhaskar Pant
Executive Director, MIT Professional Education
Culturally diverse teams produce more creative, innovative group results, compared to those in more culturally homogenous groups....
Why Princeton, New Jersey Is The Best City In The United States Of America
There are a few standard factors that help one judge whether a particular city is a great place to live or not. These factors...
Luxury is a necessity in People’s Republic of China: Social Rejection of New Wealth...
By Pierre Xiao Lu
Research Phenomena
China is the second largest market for luxury goods in the world, behind the US and before Japan1. More...
3 Options for UK Companies to Register a Business in Germany
As well as being a simple process, registering a UK limited company in Germany is ideal for various reasons. Being the largest economy in...
Why Now is the Best Time to Form a Company in the UK
If you were asked about the best investment jurisdiction to consider for offshore company formation, what would be the answer? To select a good offshore...
Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation
By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey
Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...
