Lessons from the Front: A Practitioner’s Guide to Waging War on Complexity
By Stephen A.Wilson & Andrei Perumal
Complexity is now top of the agenda for many Chief Executives. In today’s world—that is, after the financial collapse—companies’...
“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...
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...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
Growth Principles from a Decade of Billion-Dollar ‘Startups’
By Josemaria Siota and Luiz Zorzella
How did LinkedIn achieved a 35% revenue growth in 20151, after suffering media earthquakes in the previous months? Some...
Industry 4.0: How Businesses in Aargau are Mastering Technological Change
Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...
Magnetic Loyalty: Crafting Effective Loyalty Programmes that Attract and Retain Customers
By Klaus Heine and Vanessa Brunner
Most brand managers today see room for improvement in their repurchase rates, particularly as Generation Z tends to exhibit...
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,...
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...
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...
Sharing Business Ownership to Execute Your Strategy
By Felix Barber and Michael Goold
Co-owners sharing business rewards do not need to take on the same mix of responsibilities; instead, to create more...
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...
What We (Think We) Know May Not Be So
How to Get (More of) What You Want in Negotiations
By Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys
The results of empirical research on the performance...
Missing in Action: Policy Implications of Management Research
By Søren H. Jensen, Sascha Kraus and Herman Aguinis
One of the key stated goals of management research is to improve policymaking. But, based on...
The Three Types of Big Data That Matter for CMOs
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont
Organisations today have massive amount of data at their disposal. However, not all C-level executives have clear typology of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation From Mind To Method
By William Duggan
In Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, William Duggan shows how the human mind creates solutions to new problems and then translates...
Future Shaping for Active and Collaborative Strategising
By Katri Valkokari, Sofi Kurki, Juuli Huuhanmäki, Jyri Rökman, and Kalle Kantola
Business strategists could be forgiven for being content merely to draw up contingency...
Can You Teach Leadership?
By Adrian Furnham
Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
Flat Organizations Can Foment Trust and a Sense of Purpose, but Come with Their...
By Mireia Las Heras and José Pérez del Valle
Flat organizations are becoming popular across industries, emphasizing employee autonomy and responsibility. While these models promote...
Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail
By Adrian Furnham
In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it...
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...
Using Stories to Create Exceptional Performance
By Lior Arussy
Arguably one of the most powerful examples of a performance-defining event for a company was done by a chain-smoking, alcohol-drinking CEO. His...
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,...
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...
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,...
Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige
By Klaus Heine and Francine Espinoza Petersen
Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
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...
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:...
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...
Strategising for the Future
By Joan E. Ricart and Carlos Rey
In this article the authors discuss how organisations can better strategise for the future by integrating and balancing...
Approaching Risk From the Boardroom
By Francisco Vieira and Pedro B. Agua
Boards of directors have been forced to pay increased attention to organisational risk and due governance. It is...
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...
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.”...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Power of Corporate Culture — and How to Harness It
Culture change is hard to do. Just look at Ron Johnson’s attempted transformation of JCPenney in 2012. Or go back a few thousand years...
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...
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
The Consistency Trap: How to Make Better Decisions
By Dr. Tim Mullett, Reader, Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Repetitive strain: Consistency bias can blind decision-makers to key factors when making similar choices.
Practice makes...
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...
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...
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...
The End of Competitive Advantage
Interview with Rita McGrath
The European Business Review talks to Forbes’ #6 most influential business thinker, Rita McGrath, about innovation, the end of competitive advantage,...
IT Negotiators: What’s Your Approach?
By Will Baber and Arto Ojala
IT and software industries appear to be collaborative in projects in house and among organisations as they plan and...
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