Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time
By Brian Souza
Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Binary Options: An Innovative and Intelligent Way of Trading
By Banc De Binary
Founded in the wake of the 2008 decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list binary options on the...
Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
5 Myths about Employee Learning
Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them.
Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture?
Often, it’s when...
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...
When Spending Hurts
By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon
Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...
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...
Good Profits and Growth How Net Promoter Helps Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World
By Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey and Andreas Dullweber
Companies are now finding that the only path to sustainable growth lies through “good profits” and long-term...
From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives
By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner
As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...
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 Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not 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...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
The 4 D’s of Successful Business Transformation
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...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
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...
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America – searching for “Shared Value” development models
By Luciano Ciravegna
Between 2003 and 2012 Latin America has lived through an unprecedented period of stability and positive economic performance. A region once associated...
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...
Future Proofing the Capital Value of Your Business
By Richard Shrapnel
Succession is a dynamic journey, and anyone involved in this process should seek to understand it before venturing forward. Below, Richard Shrapnel...
Must-Have Technology Capabilities for Digital Transformation Mastering the Magnificent 15
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...
Conflict Contagion: A Virus to Watch and Treat Early
By Karsten Jonsen, Karen A. Jehn, Sonja Rispens and Lindred L. Greer
Conflicts are daily realities of organisational teams, and most people are aware of...
Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management
By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr.
Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...
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 –...
Market Makers… Innovate your market, then innovate your business.
By Peter Fisk
Peter Fisk explores how the next generation of businesses innovate from the future back, and outside in. They start by finding the...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
Revenue Performance Management As A Business Growth Strategy
By Phil Fernandez
For more than a decade, I have had a mantra that has guided my personal approach to leadership. It goes like this:...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
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 ...
Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace
Rick Iedema & David Grant
Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance
By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four...
6 Keys to Inventory Optimisation
By Karin Bursa
Many companies around the world have adopted inventory optimisation and those without a formal process are falling behind their competition. Effective companies...
Keys to Manage Human Resources – Rules of Thumb: Part 1
By Guido Stein, Ángel Cervantes and Marta Cuadrado
This article, which is in two parts, aims to acquaint readers with the main personnel management...
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...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
The Burning Platform of Retail Banking
By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi
Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation
“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
Measuring the Relative Weights of E-Marketing Tools for Online Businesses
By Kin Meng Sam & Chris Chatwin
E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place), which forms...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
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...
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...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
The Anatomy of Board of Director Culture
By Patrick R. Dailey
Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen.
Talented directors...
A New Model for the Future of Customer Relationships
By Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Catharine Hays, with Alexa de los Reyes
The fundamental relationships among brands, media, and people are being transformed at an...
Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...
Knowledge Architects Wanted
By Tammi L. Coles
Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...
The Happiness Conundrum
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Based on a case example of a deeply unhappy person, this article examines the elusive topic of happiness,...