The 4 P’s: Saving 25% of Meeting Time
By John Sutherland
Ineffective meetings are the bugbear of many organisations. In this article, John Sutherland, Director of Strategic resource introduces and discusses the 4...
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 Practice Of Strategy
By Carlos Rey Peña and Joan E. Ricart
What is strategy? In this article, the authors view strategy as a discipline that harmonizes business model...
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...
Why Focus Matters to Your Leadership: Understanding Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make mistakes. In such...
Fads and Fashions in Management
By Adrian Furnham
In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
A Transformation Manifesto
By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun
Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...
Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope
The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...
Creating Collaborative Advantage
By John Sutherland
Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...
Structure Follows Strategy – But May not Look Like You Imagined
By John Sutherland
In the world of structural design, one size does not fit all. It pays massive dividends to get the structure fit for...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
Talent Management 2.0: Transformation Powered By People
By Amber Román and Richard Lynch
In “Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take To Create Your Digital 2.0 Business Model,” we discussed our...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
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...
Why Focus-Based Leadership is Important to Huawei’s Business Strategy
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
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...
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...
Managing Customer Satisfaction Better
By Johannes Habel
Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...
Reinvention: Critical to Business Success, but not Always Obvious
By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?
By Mark Skilton
The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...
What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper
By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes
Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...
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...
United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
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...
At Your Service: Management with HEART
Interview with Rommel Gonzales
The Bellevue Resort, Bohol, Philippines
“In the hospitality and airline industry, you are not selling rooms, nor selling airline seats. You are...
Managing Difficult Personalities
By Zahir Irani and Amir Sharif
Taking a lead in handling difficult situations and difficult people can be the hardest part of any management role....
Senior Team Development for the Unwilling
By John Sutherland
Traditional team work over-emphasises the whole team approach far more than is needed for most practical purposes. In this article, John Sutherland...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
Behavioral Strategy: Thoughts and Feelings in the Decision-making Process, the Unconscious and the Company’s...
By Claudia Nagel
It is evident that the psychology of the decision-making person – to a certain extent the human factor – plays an important...
Have We Lost the Ability to Listen to Bad News?
By Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kishore Sengupta & Henk Akkermans
Research shows that project managers continuously prioritised good vibes (positive, but...
What Managers Need to Know about Platforms
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap
By Harbir Singh and Michael Useem
Based on the authors’ new book, The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap, this article stresses that strategic leadership constitutes a skillset...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
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:...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Internationalisation in Online Retailing
By Moritz Hahn and Niccolò Pisani
Online retailing is clearly on the rise. In this article the authors offer a snapshot of the current status...
What causes managers to change their business model?
By Tina Saebi, Lasse Lien and Nicolai Foss
Business models define how companies create, deliver and capture value. But business models are not static –...
Market Makers… Innovate your market, then innovate your business.
By Peter Fisk
Peter Fisk explores how the next generation of businesses innovate from the future back, and outside in. They start by finding the...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take to Create Your Digital 2.0 Business...
By Todd Fisher and Richard Lynch A Strategy to Execution planning process focused on Technology Strategy, will raise the TQ (Technology Quotient) of ...
6 Keys to Inventory Optimisation
By Karin Bursa
Many companies around the world have adopted inventory optimisation and those without a formal process are falling behind their competition. Effective companies...
Strategic Principles for Competing in the Digital Age
By Martin Hirt and Paul Willmott
Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Below, Martin...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
The Anatomy of Board of Director Culture
By Patrick R. Dailey
Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen.
Talented directors...
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