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.

financial services disruption

Disruption of Financial Services in Germany

By Peter Walburg and Boris Liedtke The crowdfunding industry in Germany is doing what many European banks are afraid to do — creating value by...
3 Things You Need to Know When Investing in Watches

3 Things You Need to Know When Investing in Watches

to give watches the time of day (pardon the pun). They are not only fashion accessories, but also nowadays a high technological device that...
How Some Companies Beat the Competition...for Decades and Even Centuries

How Some Companies Beat the Competition…for Decades and Even Centuries

By Howard Yu and Jialu Shan The average lifespan of companies is becoming shorter. For them to survive the competition it is important to learn...

Scaling Agility: The Fuel that Drives the Organisation’s Digital Transformation

Interview with Professor Stijn Viaene In today’s rapidly-changing corporate world, it’s imperative for businesses and organisations to respond and adapt more quickly than ever before....
Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise

Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise

By Mostafa Sayyadi There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately, the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In...
Financial Literacy

How Financial Literacy Can Help Business Owners Beat their Competition

When you start a business, you can often get caught up in the day-to-day running and forget about all the important back-office tasks. These...
Online Casino

What Overheads Does an Online Casino Business Have?

One of the biggest benefits which online businesses have versus brick and mortar businesses is that they have significantly less overheads which impact their...

Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation

By Yazeed Alhezzani It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
Employee Retention Rates in the Job-Hopping Age

How to Maximize Employee Retention Rates in the Job-Hopping Age

By Stefan Klumpp and Gareth Platt In a world where 1 in 4 employees quits within 90 days, how do you hang on to your...
Amazingly Good Sales Pitch

Amazingly Good Sales Pitch Examples

Let’s face it — selling is hard work. Convincing a prospective buyer to trust you and consider your offer can be extremely difficult. It’s...
Wireless Technology

How Has Wireless Technology Changed How We Do Business?

Wireless technology was revolutionary when it was first introduced. It’s had a significant impact on our lives, helping us to stay connected on the...
How to Ensure You Keep Up with Demands in Business

How to Ensure You Keep Up with Demands in Business

Running a business can be extremely challenging. There are so many tasks and things you need to take care of on a daily basis....
Ways to Plan a Right Influencer Marketing Campaign

Ways to Plan a Right Influencer Marketing Campaign

Are you annoyed because your influencer marketing campaigns seem to be failing? Despite all of your input, the results you seek do not seem to...
international business expansion

How to Make Your Business go International

When it comes to running a business, there are many ways to be successful and measure success. However, for some of us, it’s a...
Thank-You Cards

The Business Benefits of Sending Out Thank-You Cards

One of the most influential resources for a business owner is repeat business. Repeat business is established through two main approaches: providing a product...
Understanding Consumer Touchpoints to Improve Your Business

Understanding Consumer Touchpoints to Improve Your Business

Running a business can be difficult at times, which is why striving for better should always be at the forefront of everyone’s mind. This is...
Tech Trends Shaping the Future of HR in 2019

The Tech Trends Which are Shaping HR in 2019

As the old saying goes, “you’re only as good as your weakest link”. It’s a phrase which is extremely pertinent to the world of...
most innovative companies in Europe

The Most Successful And Innovative Businesses In Europe

There is simply no denying that business is booming in Europe. This is certainly an up sight for the country as over the past...
Challenges Facing E-Commerce Today and their Solutions

What are the Challenges Facing E-Commerce Today and their Solutions?

Over the past 10-15 years, electronic trading platforms have emerged in the depths of large enterprises as a system of resource allocation between departments....
HR manager skills

The Best HR Managers Should have these Skills

The world of human resources is constantly changing, in line with wider trends in the labour market. So, whilst more Brits are in employment...
Customer and Business

Will Customer and Business Interactions Disappear?

Many people think customer and business interactions have taken something off a backseat in some sectors due to the rise of online shopping and...
Maturity in Trading Comes with Learning

Maturity in Trading Comes with Learning

It is necessary for all of the traders to get some good kind of learning in the system. From there, all of the best...
Expanding Your Business Into America

Thinking of Expanding Your Business Into America?

Thinking of Expanding Your Business Into America? Foothold America has created a free guide about expanding a business into America and the process required...
How Technology is Transforming Education

How Technology is Transforming Education

Technology has long been changing the world and today’s society is shifting to become a Cyber Reality. The good news is that this shift...
become a better boss

Become A Better Boss Today

Being a boss isn't as easy as other people think. You have a lot of responsibilities, and you are the one who keeps it...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel

Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel

By Francesca Gino Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...
Organisation’s Core: Millennials

A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials

By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...

Copycats: Where Fashion and Pharmaceuticals Meet

By Gregory DeYong, Hubert Pun and Carol Lucy Copycats are every industry’s nightmare. Consumers are becoming more budget-conscious and many start to favour generic products...
operations and supply chain management

The Eight Common Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make When Negotiating

By Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind We all know the statistics. Most start-up businesses fail. While many experts attribute the high failure rate to the...
Sometimes Being Yourself is the Best Globalisation Strategy: Lessons from a K-Pop Group, BTS

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...
importance of business education

Why You Need a Business Education

Are you among the very many, that wishes to be an entrepreneur? Or maybe you have a dream and want to venture out on...
wellbeing ROI

Calculating the Financial Return on Wellbeing

By Steven MacGregor Toby and Daniel were corporate rebels. Meeting at SAP in 2005 their approach to work – challenging the current way of doing...
Display Advertising Trends of 2019

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...
future-proof business strategies

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...
financial services disruption

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...
neo-populism strategies

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...

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...
progress tracking tools

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 office etiquette

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...
translation equipment for conferences

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?

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

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...
best online business ideas

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...
future-ready business strategies

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...
World’s Most Successful Companies

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...
Motivational Speaker Can Transform Your Next Event

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...
workstyle reform Japan

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...
business growth tips

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...