STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT

This category is Strategy & Management, exploring effective leadership, business growth, and organizational success. It features expert insights on strategic planning, decision-making, and innovative management practices to navigate today’s competitive and evolving business landscape.

Revealed: The Display Advertising Trends of 2019

Advertising technology provider Bannerflow, has created an infographic revealing the four key trends affecting European display advertising in 2019. Display ads continue to thrive in...

How to Future-proof Your Business

We are living in a time that’s both exciting and scary for businesses across the globe. This is because on one hand, businesses have...

Market Your Small Business More Effectively Today

Small business owners need to be aware of how they can achieve marginal gains for their businesses. This is all about standing out and...

Embrace Disruption in Financial Services Because It’s Here to Stay

By Jim Tomaney The dinosaurs of old are ready to be challenged by businesses that have evolved and are hungry – This article discusses how...
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Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism

By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in  Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
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Top 5 benefits of mobile learning for corporations

By Ehsan Memari Let’s face it: if you’re looking for a powerful way to promote learning in the workplace, you just can’t ignore mobile. After...

Reach your Goals Faster with these 4 Powerful Progress Tracking Tools

Whether you’re planning out your career or taking a project from start to finish, you’ll reach your goals faster if you track progress. Biologically, human...

Open-space Ethics for Co-workers

Open-space offices are fast becoming the norm. For businesses and workers, they offer many advantages: easier communication for collaboration, lower costs, and greater transparency...

Basic Translation Equipment for an International Conference/Business Meeting

In today’s global economy, at some point you’ll probably find yourself dealing with customers and clients from all over the world. But how do...

How To Design an Ambidextrous Organisation

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...

Do you need to be happy to be a Chief Happiness Officer?

Examining the new Happiness at Work initiative at SAP By Steven MacGregor “The term is loaded. It doesn’t mean I’m walking around all day telling jokes...

How Football Clubs Are Building Global Brand Equity

Some of the biggest brands in the world are football clubs. You only have to look at the insane amount of money some of...

10 Best Online Business Ideas That Actually Work

Who would mind working at their own schedule from their cozy homes and getting a nice online monthly paycheck? Of course, it does not...

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...

Four pathways to ‘Future Ready’ that pay off

By Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner and Nick van der Meulen Transformation is not easy but the companies who have reached “Future Ready” have significantly...

A Look At The World’s Most Successful Companies

It’s often interesting and inspirational to learn how hugely successful companies worth billions of dollars started and grew to the behemoths they are today. Take...

How a motivational speaker can transform your next event

Planning a business event can feel like a daunting prospect, even for established business leaders. This is for good reason: the evening’s legacy can...

Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan

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...

Six tips for expanding your business

All business owners understand how difficult it can be to expand their company - it takes a great deal of hard work, planning and...

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...
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Driving Success Through Agile Banking: An Exclusive Interview with Sergey Khotimskiy

Started out as a local bank catering to a niche market, Sovcombank became one of the largest in terms of assets and most profitable...

VAT Financing Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing: Here’s Why

HMRC is an equal opportunity entity when it comes to assessing taxes. Anybody who buys or sells in the UK knows that all too...

How to Grow Crypto Assets

Crypto as a new asset class has opened up new frontiers in investing platforms. The 2017 Bull Run that caught many unaware raised billions...

Why Printing is still Important in our Digital World

Technology has completely changed the way many businesses work, giving the team everything they need to do their job effectively at the touch of...

Why You Should Get Personalised Clipboards with Jumbo Traditional Clips for your Business

Personalised clipboards could be the next big thing for your company- and we’re here to tell you why. Personalised stationery has been on the rise...

How to Find a Top Auto Lender in 2019 Even if You Have Good...

When you make a purchase such as a car or a house, you can either pay for the item, which for most would be...

Your Strategy Needs 2 Types of People

By Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter Strategies, when executed to a perfect blend, can even end a World War. This is why organisations and...
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Craftsmanship Meets Technology: A Conversation with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen

In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...

What beginners need to know about the EPS formula

The EPS formula is a measure of “rating” as such in the stock market that is very well respected by stocks market traders and...

“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...
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Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity

By Barbara Harvey The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.  Companies increasingly understand...

Boost Staff Motivation Levels All Year Round

By Aliya Vigor-Robertson The return to work after the festive period can leave many employees struggling to get motivated. The excitement of Christmas is over,...

How Luxury Brands can benefit from Personality-based Branding

By Klaus Heine and Haibo Xue Luxury brand management is identity–driven. Drawing on the concept of anthropomorphisation, Klaus Heine and Haibo Xue outline how to...

Design Thinking: Eight Mistakes to Avoid

By Josemaria Siota and Thomas Klueter When properly implemented, design thinking can result in higher success rate for innovation. However, one of our studies states...

Market similarities and differences

The trading market mainly consists of options, forex, and the commodity market. Among these three markets, the forex market is the most prominent.  All...

How Banks Grow Now

By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...

Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in male and female leaders’ use of...

By Vanessa Marcié and Sucheta Nadkarni While humour can serve as a key to improve work culture and leadership effectiveness, there is a good chance that you are...

Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?

By Jean-Noël Kapferer As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...

A Partnership for Driving the Future of Business Transformation

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...

5 Ideas to Set Up the Perfect Social Media Budget

Everybody has ideas to advertise, but some of them are not as successful as you may think. Also, spending lots of money on advertising...

Tailoring the Strategy Function for Success

By Jo Whitehead, Felix Barber and Rebecca Homkes Enterprises face a host of challenges today, including digital disruption and changing global trade patterns. In such...

Sound Business: Improving Your Audio ROI

By Steve Keller “What does your brand sound like?” The rise of smart speakers and voice interactive technology is forcing brands to answer that question....

NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential

By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...

Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees

By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...

Storytelling Workshops: A Tool for Breakthrough Product Innovation

By Evy Sakellariou, Keith Goffin, and Agnes Mariakaki New product development (NPD) is essential to companies and it is an area where our research shows that...

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...

Integrative Intelligence for a Trust-based Worldview for Business

By Sharda Nandram, Puneet Bindlish and Navin Keizer Trust forms the bedrock of any business and can be seen as the fundamental currency of all...

Luxury Brands Need to Reconcile Seven Dilemmas and Chart New Territory

By Dr Stéphane J.G. Girod With the fast-changing needs and tastes of today’s consumers, how would luxury brands keep their products relevant and desirable? In...