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.

AI and Digital Resources in Fintech: Creating an evolutionary analytic platform for “risk” estimation

By Stephan Kudyba This article describes the potential for AI to augment risk estimation for both individual investors and financial market assets. AI processes vast...

GDPR – Death Knell or a New Life for Customer Analytics?

By Amit Joshi Even before the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the European Union’s 28 member states, European firms apparently had...

An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True

By Ulrich A.K. Betz , VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck   Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and...

Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia

It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...

The Simplexity Gap Why Boards are Always a Step Behind their Management Teams –...

By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Richard Nesbitt How impactful can simplexity gap be in corporate boards? In this article, the authors show how such gap undermines...

The Dark Side of Emotional Contagion

By Alexandra Dobra-Kiel Investment banks – and the financial services industry at large – continue to bear the reputational scares of some high-profile ethical scandals....

Big Data: The Deciding Element in Mobile Advertising Efficacy

By Nidhi Prakash In the age of analytics, how would advertisers take full advantage of the growing potential of big data? In this article, the...

Actions, Not Words Yes, Working Parents Can Succeed – And You Can Help Them...

By Daisy Dowling Organisations of all sizes and types struggle with the “working parent problem”: how to retain, and foster best performance amongst the significant...
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High Performing Negotiations in a Team

By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta Whether you’re negotiating solo or with a team, it is crucial to have a smart approach to get the...

Ebb and flow

By Steven MacGregor I spent some time with Oracle a few weeks ago, during the kick-off to their new financial year. 150 senior leaders from...

21st Century Leaders: Driving Success Amid Intense Disruption

Fujitsu’s Duncan Tait on the imperatives for unlocking value in the digital age Besides having superior knowledge about optimising digital for their business, what else...

Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth

What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...

What the French Open can Teach Businesses about Branding

The Ten Key Lessons Every Marketer Should Know By Laurence Minsky and Colleen Fahey Improving one’s brand identity is indeed one of the greatest challenges marketers...

Amazon, Just a Click Away from Luxury

What are the Implications for Selective Distribution? By Xavier Derville and Jean-Noël Kapferer Has the strategy of selective distribution, on which luxury brands depend for survival, evolved in the...

Chief Wellbeing Officer: Learning to Live

By Steven MacGregor With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning....

How Global are Germany’s Largest Corporations?

By Niccolò Pisani and Omar Toulan Whereas facts suggest that German companies are among the best equipped and most active to pursue global growth, they...

Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy

By David de Cremer Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...

Waking Up to Data Quality

By Tadhg Nagle, Thomas Redman and, David Sammon Bad data impacts managers and their companies far more than most realise today and presents an enormous...

The Three Types of Big Data That Matter for CMOs

By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont Organisations today have massive amount of data at their disposal. However, not all C-level executives have clear typology of the...

Inner agility for health and wellbeing

By Steven MacGregor We look at agile ways of working this month, including an excerpt from episode 7 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast with global...

Fashion Brands and Social Media: Counterintuitive Evidence

By Matteo Altobelli Marketing budget has been exponentially going digital. In this article, the author explores the social media platforms being used by 108 fashion...

Savvy and Skillful: a new look at office politics

By Adrian Furnham Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...

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....

When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling

Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...

The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe

By Elena Mazzotti and Francesca Caminiti Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...

Speaking Truth to Power

By Megan Reitz and John Higgins The need for transparency has never been more important, both in politics and in business. However, new research from...

The ROI of Wellbeing

By Steven P. MacGregor I was teaching Masters students at IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology this week. Teaching wellbeing at work to an...

Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups

By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...

What Really Matters to Gen Z? Workplace Tech or the Team Around them?

By Tony Bailey As students get their A-level results and graduate from university this summer, a new tranche of young people will enter the workforce....

Hunter or Hunted? How Digital Media and GDPR Increases Importance of Inbound B2B Sales

By Laurence Minsky and Keith Quesenberry Today, through prior digital and social media research, organisational buyers approach their vendor sales teams much more informed. Hence,...

To Find Value in the Digital Age, Find It for Others First

By Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore To grow their businesses consistently, leaders must envision a much bigger picture of where value resides than...

Limitless Vision Infinite Possibilities: The Story of Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja and his...

“Keep on climbing, the sky is the limit and believe me you will never reach the top because it’s endless.” In this interview, CEO...

The Right Business Model At The Right Time

By Adam Bock and Gerard George The combination of globalisation, Moore’s law and ubiquitous information have transformed industries into fluid, rapidly-changing landscapes. Today’s competitor is tomorrow’s...

Digital Advertising’s Wild West: Deciding Which Media Channel is More Effective is the Key

By Tahir Nisar A digital advertising campaign may be stymied by the difficulty in attributing the value of online investment to various online channels such...

Tolerating Failure: A Key to Creating Sustainable Business

By CB Bhattacharya, Ernesto Ciorra and Joanna Radeke Best-in-class companies galvanise their workforces to serve a larger purpose – creating a better world. They empower...

Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century

By Karl-Heinz Streibich The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective.  Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...

Overcoming the Illusion of Email Overwhelm

By Joe Beccalori One of the most dreaded activities that executives have got to face is treading through an overwhelming amount of electronic messages. In...

What’s Your Superpower?

By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...

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...

Fun & Games: Business Models for Innovation

By Gregory Gimpel While many brilliant ideas come from start-ups with unsustainable business models, well-established firms suffer from an inability to innovate, especially in regulated...

How To Catch A Moving Target in the Digital World

By Stijn Viaene In this article, Prof. Stijn Viaene continues to shed light on the realities that executives and business leaders must face in the...

Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030

By John Elkington and Richard Roberts Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...

Writing the American Marketing and PR Playbook

By Jo Detavernier Promoting products and services through marketing and PR is a very different ballgame in the United States compared to Europe. An integrated...

What is Brand Activation and Why Marketers and Consumers Should Care

By William Rosen and Laurence Minsky Marketing, along with the market and all its innovations, is also imperatively evolving. In this article, the authors elaborate...

Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver

By Jonathan Trevor Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...

How to Get Your Functions to Supercharge Your Strategy

By Jo Whitehead, Anita Hunt and Debbie Rogerson Great strategies often go to waste because they cannot be properly executed. In this article, the authors...

Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment

By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
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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:...

Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?

By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...

GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...

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