This category is Global Business, exploring international market trends, trade dynamics, and business strategies shaping the global economy. It features expert insights on leadership, innovation, and economic developments influencing businesses worldwide.
Standardisation and Cooperation are the Future
Interview with Jonas Berggren CEO, SSG AB
According to Jeffrey Sachs, author of “The Age of Sustainable Development,” achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal,...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
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...
The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money
By Christopher Surdak
In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...
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,...
Growth Principles from a Decade of Billion-Dollar ‘Startups’
By Josemaria Siota and Luiz Zorzella
How did LinkedIn achieved a 35% revenue growth in 20151, after suffering media earthquakes in the previous months? Some...
Solving Marketing’s Inventory Crisis
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua Bellin
Just-in-time manufacturing was adopted shortly after World War II to save companies from drowning in excess inventory as...
India’s Lessons for Creating a Digital Business
By Raghav Narsalay and Avnish Sabharwal
As India rapidly moves into the digital era, leading Indian businesses are changing their business models to capture the...
The Practice Of Strategy
By Carlos Rey Peña and Joan E. Ricart
What is strategy? In this article, the authors view strategy as a discipline that harmonizes business model...
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...
Fads and Fashions in Management
By Adrian Furnham
In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take to Create Your Digital 2.0 Business...
By Todd Fisher and Richard Lynch A Strategy to Execution planning process focused on Technology Strategy, will raise the TQ (Technology Quotient) of ...
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...
Leadership Development: One Size Does Not Fit All Growing Leaders in Africa and Across...
By Dr Vanessa Iwowo
Despite the diversity of business and social cultures around the world, we continue to teach and take part in a “one...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Coaching for the Future
Using the example of the Indian company J.K. Organisation, this article shows how the adoption of a coaching culture has transformed the organization, setting...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani
To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
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...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
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...
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...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Preparing for Uncertainty: How to use Creaction at Work
By Len Schlesinger and Charles Kiefer
In an excerpt from their book, Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future, the authors Len Schlesinger...
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 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,...
Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?
By Dan Steinbock
Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...
Global Brand Power Experiential Positioning of A Brand
By Barbara E. Kahn
Building a strong global brand is all about creating that unique position in the market. Here Barbara E. Kahn illustrates the...
Aargau, Switzerland: Home of Innovation
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...
Strategic Principles for Competing in the Digital Age
By Martin Hirt and Paul Willmott
Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Below, Martin...
The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
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
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
Clarifying Strategy is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation is Not
By R. Lynch, A. Roman and G. Mac Criosta
A clearly defined and accessible business strategy is crucial to any organisation’s ability to optimally align...
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...
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...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Transforming Procurement to Achieve Competitive Advantage in the Coming Decade
By P. Spiller, N. Reinecke, D. Ungerman & H. Teixeira
In this article, the authors argue that procurement must be transformed to meet the challenges...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
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...
Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...
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...
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...
Cross-Border Flows and Client Services
By David Bartlett, RSM International
This article examines the impact of cross-border flows on client demand for accounting and consulting services. The findings of this...
The Limits to Outsourcing: Beware of the Consequences for Market Success!
By Masaaki Kotabe, Michael J. Mol, Janet Y. Murray & Ronaldo Parente
Over the past few decades, outsourcing, in particular offshore outsourcing, has become a...
Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs
By Yossi Sheffi
Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...