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.
When AI Becomes the Customer: How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape Global Business
By Sharon Gai
As AI agents evolve from answering questions to executing transactions, a new commercial paradigm is taking shape. Agentic commerce, where autonomous software...
Understanding and Mastering Complexit
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe...
Legal and Compliance Challenges in Ethical Value Chains: Mitigating Corruption and Protecting Brand Equity
By Ken D. Johnson and Dana E. Heitz
The article explores how companies can build ethical value chains by addressing corruption through legal compliance and...
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...
What South Africa can teach leaders about resilience
By John Luiz
The COVID-19 pandemic has overturned the idea of ‘business as usual,’ exposing many vulnerabilities within social, business, and economic systems.
A recent global...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 2: Avoiding Risk, Keeping Busy, and Resorting with...
By Christopher Surdak, JD
In part two of the series on the Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak provides an overview of some of the avoidance...
New Business Creation Among BRICS Seven Times Faster Than G7 Since The Financial Crisis
By Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International
RSM International is the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Below, a comparative...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
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...
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...
Guy El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial, Discusses Innovation in the Emerging Payments Sector
We recently sat down with Guy El Khoury to discuss his successful journey in setting up one of the very first service provider companies...
What Investment Criteria Are Appropriate Today, in Light of the Coronavirus Threat?
By Dr. Peter Lorange
Introduction
In this article, I discuss how the relative importance of various investment criteria seems to have shifted as a consequence of...
Sharing Business Ownership to Execute Your Strategy
By Felix Barber and Michael Goold
Co-owners sharing business rewards do not need to take on the same mix of responsibilities; instead, to create more...
The Tears in the Deep Tiers
By Yossi Sheffi
Many leading companies have well-developed risk management and crisis management systems for their own operations. Yet for all their prowess of risk...
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...
Europe’s Digital Decade – What is the role of automation?
By Cezara Panait
The European Commission set the way forward on digital transformation by unveiling its vision for Europe’s Digital Decade and its targets by...
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
Why the US is THE place to be for IT
European IT entrepreneurs are still looking to US in order to achieve their full potential.
In an era of disruptors and pioneering start-ups, the United...
AoEC Certifies As a B Corporation
The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) is delighted and proud to announce its certification as a B Corporation. As an accredited global coach training company,...
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...
Internationalisation in Online Retailing
By Moritz Hahn and Niccolò Pisani
Online retailing is clearly on the rise. In this article the authors offer a snapshot of the current status...
Is Your Innovation Strategy Ready to Meet the 21st Century?
By Tamara Bekefi and Marc J. Epstein
We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...
Softscaling: A New Growth Strategy for Volatile Environments
By Ritu Agarwal and Peter Weill
In an increasingly volatile world what were tried and true business maxims yesterday probably won’t work today. Just think...
End-of-Life Fund Strategies: The Case for Early Planning, Continuation Vehicles, and Meaningful Governance
By Brendan Gallen
For years, fund end-of-life followed a familiar script: realize the remaining assets, distribute the proceeds, and commence wind-down. That script is now...
Managing Geopolitical Risk Under Uncertainty
By Ghaidaa Hetou and J. Mark Munoz
Geopolitical shifts born out of the US-China-Russia rivalry have manifested in supply chain interruptions, divestments, national security directed...
Competing for Control: Why Europe’s Hidden Champions Must Become Hybrid Champions
By Maria Zaffaroni
For decades, Europe’s Hidden Champions built global leadership through specialization, engineering precision, and industrial discipline. Yet competition is shifting beyond products toward...
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...
Looking for Your Next Investment Location? Here It Is
Take a closer look at how this thriving region can benefit your business. You’ll instantly spot enormous potential. And it’s all in one place.
Your...
“Electric Has Gone Audi”: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Bram Schot
In recent years, interest in electric cars has increased sharply which has led to a greater disruption and democratisation of the entire automotive value...
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...
Chocolate Dreams, Farmer Nightmares: Unveiling the Harsh Realities of the Cocoa Trade
By Kenneth D. Johnson
Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's top two cocoa producers, combined contribute two-thirds of the world's cocoa beans, the main ingredient...
How to Navigate the Complexities of the EU Supply Chain Law
By Bart A. De Muynck
The EU's new Supply Chain Law compels companies to ensure responsible sourcing throughout their global operations. This requires mapping entire...
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...
Sometimes Being Yourself is the Best Globalisation Strategy: Lessons from a K-Pop Group, BTS
By Won-Yong Oh and Mooweon Rhee
Multinational corporations face the paradox of globalisation and localisation in expanding foreign markets. As the BTS’s success shows, the...
Why the G7 Summit promises to re-energise and build back confidence in face-to-face business...
By Kenny Eon
Foreign ministers from the world’s leading economies recently gathered in London for initial in-person talks – the likes of which we haven’t...
How to set up a new company in USA
Everyone looks to start his own business nowadays. Today we will discuss everything that you should know to start your own company in the...
How Can Leaders Build Reputation in Chinese SMEs
By William S. Harvey, Hongqin Li, Oswald Jones and Jie Yang
How can leaders transform their SMEs from being unknown to being known and more...
What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales
By Frank Cespedes
Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior...
