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 when...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 open...
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...
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...