Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking
By Richard Ball
As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
The Internet of things: An Inside Perspective
By R. Richard Asselstine
A data revolution is underway: the Internet of Things is giving a “voice” to billions, even trillions, of objects – connecting...
Multipolar Innovation – and Europe
By Dan Steinbock
Emerging markets are no longer just “world factories.” Led by China, several are turning into global innovation hubs. Below, Dan Steinbock discusses...
A New Synthesis for Business Decision Making: Left Brain, Right Stuff
By Phil Rosenzweig
Business executives do not seem to heed the lessons of decision research, and continue to make strategic decisions without considering common errors....
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
By Sherilyn Casiano
For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
Are High Growth Firms Really About Profit, or Just Greed?
By Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud
Successful and profitable growth firms come from a variety of industries, but many viable business ideas are overlooked by...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
From Great to Gone
By Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski
New consumers demand a new breed of innovations in the products and services they are using. Below, Peter Lorange...
Transforming Procurement to Achieve Competitive Advantage in the Coming Decade
By P. Spiller, N. Reinecke, D. Ungerman & H. Teixeira
In this article, the authors argue that procurement must be transformed to meet the challenges...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience
By Thérèse F. Tierney
As urban populations continue to expand worldwide, natural disasters are precipitating increased challenges to public health, welfare, and safety. Informal methods,...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
The Gospel of Information Management
By Sherilyn Casiano
Information management is not the most fashionable of subjects. Yet as Sherilyn Casiano puts forseth in her article, it is the...
Demographic Changes in the Workplace
By Andrés Hatum
The global ageing population and the new generation of young professionals entering the market are changing the shape of the workplace. Companies...
Building Capabilities in Segmentation Implementation
By Adina Poenaru, Paul Baines, and Hugh Wilson
Segmentation is central to marketing strategy but implementing it is fraught with challenges. In this article, Paul...
Designing Luxury Experience
By Vadim Grigorian and Francine Espinoza Petersen
In luxury brand management, experiences are essential. However, most of what we know about designing customer experiences originates...
The TRUST Principles: How to Embrace the New World of Work
By Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson
The transformation of work in the digital, global era is gathering pace, with demonstrable benefits for business, people and...
The 3 W’s Growth Dilemmas: What, When & Where?
By Mª Julia Prats
How do you go from one store in 2006 to 44 (and 28 concessions) in six countries today? Clever experimentation to...
Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...
Smart Specialisation and Economic Opportunity in the South West
By Richard Ball
The city of Exeter is proactively developing its credentials as a true exponent of “smart specialisation”, one of the pillars of the...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
By Sherilyn Casiano
In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Marketing Strategies for a Digital World
By Eric Greenberg and Alexander Kates
In an increasingly digital age, organizations are being rapidly educated about the importance and scale of digital channels, and...
Using Business Cases to Champion New Ideas and Advocate Business Growth
By Wolfgang Messner
Despite clear business-growth objectives, managers often have to make decisions on projects with uncertain outcomes, which can result in failed initiatives, missed...
Dubai Airport Freezone Authority Attracts International Investors Ahead of Expo 2020
Many overseas businesses are already aware of the advantages Dubai has to offer. For nearly twenty years, Dubai Airport Freezone Authority has been offering...
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...
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...
Unlocking the Internet of Things
By John Bates
Big data is amassing like snow in a blizzard, forming an avalanche that threatens to bury anyone who ignores it. Below, John...
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...
Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs
By Yossi Sheffi
Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...
Achieving Demand Planning Excellence
By Karin L. Bursa
Demand planning excellence is the foundation for any successful business. Below, Karin Bursa argues that the demand plan is essential for...
Work Teams Have Emotions, Too (and you need to understand them)
By Sigal G. Barsade and Donald E. Gibson
As the use of groups and teams increases in organisations, more studies consider behaviours in a group...
Staying Power: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
In December 2005, I was invited by Oxford University to deliver the 2009 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies and then to...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
How to Boost the Insight Generation Power of Your Workforce in Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore
In a knowledge society, a company’s competitive advantage derives from the capability to generate and apply insights to innovation. Below, Alessandro...
The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies
By Chris Malone & Susan T. Fiske
Social science research tells us that over 80 percent of our judgments can be predicted by fundamental warmth...
A Framework for Organizational Storytelling
By Janis Forman
Taken from chapter 2 of Storytelling in Business: The Authentic and Fluent Organization, this excerpt focuses on the importance of authenticity, the...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
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...
The Language of Deception
By Michael T. Braun, Lyn M. Van Swol & Deepak Malhotra
Separating lies from truths is key to successful negotiation, and research designed to uncover...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis
A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
The Strategy-to-Execution Process: A Critical Component of Transient Competitive Advantage
By Jack Calhoun
It’s not simply having a good idea that separates marketplace winners from losers – it’s possessing the ability to execute. In fact,...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
The Quality of Working Life: Managers’ Wellbeing, Motivation and Productivity
By Les Worrall & Cary Cooper
The recent economic crisis has created waves of turbulence that have rocked and even sunk many UK organisations....
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will Shape Strategy
By Mike Canning & Eamonn Kelly
The need for bold strategies to capitalise on the dynamism of our times has never been greater. Below, Mike...
Competitive Advantage Through HR Innovation
By Upamali Amarakoon, Jay Weerawardena, & Martie-Louise Verreynne
Despite great recognition for human resources (HR) as a source of value addition within firms, HR innovation...
When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)
By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis
Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
New Business Creation Among BRICS Seven Times Faster Than G7 Since The Financial Crisis
By Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International
RSM International is the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Below, a comparative...
How Enterprises Exploit Five Digital Capabilities to Globalise
By Siew Kien Sia, Peter Weill & Christina Soh
Some of the most successful enterprises have embraced global diversity and operate nimbly in multiple countries...
The Hidden Costs In Business Processes
By Richard Ward
Most businesses are affected by hidden costs in procurement, distribution, order processing, sales and finance. Organisations can benefit from a careful review...