The Bias Against Radical Innovation
By Oguz Acar
The problem with truly innovative ideas is that, far from being enthusiastically received by those entrusted with evaluating them, they are more...
Strategic Leadership and Decision Making Under Extreme Crisis: Looking at Complexity Through Flexible Lenses
By Pedro B. Água
Eleven years have elapsed since the 11 of March 2011, when one of the strongest earthquakes recorded in history did hit...
Fixing the Progression Paradox: One Way to Accelerate Social Mobility
By Simon Eaves, Camilla Drejer and Dominic King
Socio-economic background continues to weigh on career progression in the UK. Despite this, a new Accenture study...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
Five Lessons of Cybersecurity the Public Sector Can Offer
By Dr. Öykü Işık, Dr. Tawfik Jelassi and Valérie Keller-Birrer
The public sector’s many years of experience fighting for cybersecurity offers unique insights for businesses...
Interviewing Elites and Guanxi in China
By Dr Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey and Jonathan V. Beaverstock
With China’s growing influence, Chinese leadership is attracting more limelight from around the world....
How Corporations Can Partner With Startups In Emerging Markets
By Shameen Prashantham
Mingke Luo is a young Shanghai-based entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of MrS.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
When The Opportunities Are Out Of Plain Sight
Interview with InterExec Founder, Mr. Kit Scott-Brown
Executives looking to progress their career face the problem that many of the best opportunities are not presented in...
The Eight Enablers of a Transformational Culture
By David Liddle
Culture is the greatest asset, or the greatest liability, an organisation has. Yet in many companies it is barely talked about and...
Three Steps to Make Sure a Strategy is Implemented
By Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School (WBS)
Studies have found that companies use many different methods to devise a strategy and even more ways in...
The Challenge of Digital Transformation
By Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Jacques Bughin
The typical rationale put forward for failing digital transformation is linked to ill-designed processes, absence of organizational commitment,...
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
To Elevate a Brand: Dream, Do and Dare
By JP Kuehlwein and Wolf Schaefer
There are brands that are seen as peerless and priceless. They are able to sustain appeal, a price premium...
What Motivates People To Become A Leader?
By Tina Kiefer, Warwick Business School (WBS)
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”...
TimeXtender Helps European Companies from Numerous Industries Manage Their Data
Managing corporate data is mission critical for any company or organization and for good reason. When having an abundance of high-quality data and instantaneous...
Designing A Customer Value-Centric Growth Strategy
By Thales Teixeira
It has been five years since I published the first article on Decoupling theory here in the European Business Review, explaining how,...
The Four Ways of Organizing Innovation
By Christoph Burger, Christoph Räthke, Bianca Schmitz and Jens Weinmann
How have innovation practices changed in the last years? We conducted around 20 semi-structured interviews...
The Issues That Shape Strategy
By Leonardo Meeus
Companies do not only compete in markets; they also compete on social and political issues. Depending on the business opportunities or threats...
Internalising Values in Organisations
By William S. Harvey, Sharina Osman and Marwa E.A. Tourky
We read a lot about the importance of organisations being led by their values, but...
Developing a Strategy for Managing Non-Financial Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risks and Opportunities
By Tim Bovy, Ian Hodges, and David Ryan
In Business, everything flows from strategy. Strategy requires that organisations prepare detailed assessments of risks and opportunities,...
Strategic Drivers for the Post-Pandemic Era
By Dr. Alessandro Lanteri
Every day business news cover dozens of new products, technologies, consumer behaviours, and business models that could be critical to the...
Retail Growth Strategies: Surviving COVID-19
By Omar Toulan and Niccolò Pisani
The economic turbulence spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the retail sector. On...
How enterprises can create meaningful purpose together with their stakeholders
By Nicholas Ind and Venkat Ramaswamy
Before the onset of COVID, there was a seeming shift in the idea of why business organizations exist....
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley
While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many...
The New Normal Of Business In The Age Of Coronavirus
As we’ve experienced during the Covid Pandemic, there’s a need for businesses to adapt to the new “normal” of operations. From stay-at-home orders frequently...
From boring to breathtaking – Putting together an impeccable business presentation
If there is one thing that all of those who speak in front of an audience should thrive at, that is getting the public’s...
Organisational difficulties in producing thought leadership
By William S. Harvey, Vincent Mitchell, Alessandra Almeida Jones and Eric Knight
Over the past several decades, thought leadership has moved from being individual gurus...
Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...
B2B eCommerce and COVID-19: 6 Challenges and Solutions for 2021
As 2021 approaches, and as the economy adjusts to new realities, the outlook for B2Bs looks promising.
B2B buyers have radically changed their opinion about...
5 Keys to Resolving Cross-Functional Rivalries in your Digital Transformation
By Bhaskar Ghosh, Nigel Stacey, Raghav Narsalay, Aarohi Sen, and Paul Barbagallo
The challenge is as old as business itself: How do you get people...
How Business Should Protect Intellectual Property
The age of technology and exchange of information in the digital domain have made our daily lives easier, but also brought numerous new challenges...
Being Prepared for Surprises to Happen: Huawei as a Black Swan?
By David De Cremer
In life, it’s always possible that things change in the blink of an eye. One day everything is as it has...
How to Profit from Reference Marketing in B2B Markets
By Andre Vilares Morgado
Reference marketing plays an important role in business markets. Customer references have a positive impact on vendors’ reputations. It also portrays...
Reasons Why a Business Plan is Key to Success
A business plan is a fundamental part of your overall business strategy. You must have one, should you want your business to prosper and...
Negotiating in a Digitalised Era
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
When negotiations take place between business organisations, it’s clear that those involved in the discussions will be intensely focused...
Distinguish Crisis from Disaster: 5 Notes for Making Decisions
By Axelle Bagot and Houman Harouni
One of the most common forms of leadership failure is treating a crisis like it is a disaster, and...
A Wake-up Call for the Corporate World
By Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt, Catherine Mitchell, and Jens Weinmann
New regulations and opportunities in the decentralized energy market can be good for the planet...
DVC Framework: Accelerating Digital Value Creation
By Dr Mike Cooray and Dr Rikke Duus
In this article, we present the Digital Value Creation (DVC) framework. The DVC framework can be used...
The Current Frontier in Industrial Manufacturing: Bringing Software Systems to Market
By Bianca Schmitz, Olaf Plötner, Viktor Jarotschkin and Johannes Habel
Industrial manufacturers increasingly market software systems that help customers optimize value chain processes. However, many...
Why Location Matters in Business
In spite of today’s digital climate and the fact that remote working is on the rise, geographical location still plays an integral role in...
The 3 Myths of Employee Autonomy
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
Employee autonomy is becoming one of the latest trends in business management with many industries failing to implement and benefit from...
Six Lessons I Learned About Innovation
By Terrence Hahn
In today’s society, it is hard to conceptualise innovation without the context of technology. It is imperative to understand the technological shift...
“Managing by Values” (MBV): Innovative tools for successful micro behavioural conduct
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
“Values values on the wall, just do the business and forget them all” wrote Liran and Dolan (2016)1...
Leading an Upstart Victory: Fateful Decisions That Carried a Mid-Ranking American Football Team...
By Jeffrey Klein and Michael Useem
One of the most momentous decisions is picking the right person to lead the team all the way to...
A New Way to Look at Negotiation
By Jan Potgieter
Contrary to common assumptions, negotiation is so much more than conflict resolution; and to get the most from your negotiations you have...
A Lesson In Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating With Kidnappers
By Kandarp Mehta and Guido Stein
This article is a case analysis based on real events. The case analyses how a young British man who...
Going for gold! Five decades of business transformation, Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary
2019 is the year Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary as a world-leading business transformation specialist. Founded in 1969, as man first set foot...
TRIP Framework: Re-Thinking Organisational Competitiveness in Digital Spheres
By Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus
Across industries, organisations are in search of new ways to enhance their competitiveness in the midst of digital disruption...
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....
