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,...
Industrial Real Estate is a Must-Have in a Volatile Investment Landscape
By Timur Tillyaev
Today’s investment environment is defined by rapid change. Exciting tech developments and financial innovations are happening at a rate faster than ever...
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...
Security-as-a-Service: At Your Service
By David Sandin
David Sandin, product manager of Clavister shows how new approaches to delivering next-generation security can benefit your business.
The firewall has been the...
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,...
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Deconstructing the Myth of Entrepreneurship
By André Laplume and Sepideh Yeganegi
In the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship, individual visionaries often hog the spotlight. Yet, beneath this glare lies a startling...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
A Framework For Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
When it comes to approaching risks, we find that compliance is a necessary condition, but, not a sufficient one. Risk has...
GenAI: Prompting A Better Marketing Strategy
By Joerg Niessing and David Dubois
Amid the rise of GenAI, executives must master prompt crafting to optimize their marketing and sales strategies.
In the ever-evolving world...
How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty
By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki
The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
What Makes a Business a Masterpiece?
By Peter Lorange
No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in...
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...
Radical Renewal – Why it is Critical for Companies and Why they Fail in...
By PhD Nando Malmelin and Matti Pihlajamaa
In volatile environments marked by geopolitical shocks, sustainability pressures, and rapid advances in AI, incremental improvement alone can...
Leading with Purpose: Uniting Inner Conviction and Societal Demands
By John Almandoz and Carlos Rey
It's one thing to talk about corporate purpose, quite another to make it happen in a way that has...
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...
Change Capability Building
By David Miller and Audra Proctor
The volume and complexity of change that organizations are facing continues to increase, and they cannot risk the negative...
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...
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...
Virtual Working: When It Comes to Sensitive Conversations, the Medium Affects the Message
By Dr Melissa Dunlop and Professor Adrian Furnham
The remote-working era brought us many challenges in communicating effectively with our fellow humans via a computer...
“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...
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...
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,...
How to Better Understand Your Market to Drive Business Growth
By Francis Rodino
If you don’t truly understand your market, you’re shooting in the dark. Successful businesses thrive on market intelligence—knowing exactly who their customers...
Scaling You: Human + Digital = A Winning Formula for Small Business Success
By Elizabeth Eiss
As a small business owner or solopreneur, you are the engine of your business—and the driver, mechanic, and GPS all rolled into...
Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Generative AI
By Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Roussiere and Professor Thierry Rayna
With the game-changing explosion of AI into the commercial world, business leaders have, predictably, focused on the...
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...
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...
The Resilience Rings: A New Neuropsychological Framework for Building Resilience
By Javier S. Casademunt and Simon L. Dolan
Mental health problems, especially in the workplace, have become the current global pandemic that COVID-19 left behind....
What Western Leaders Can Learn from China’s Changing Business Etiquette in 2026
By Dr Catherine Hua Xiang
Chinese business etiquette is often reduced to rigid hierarchy and indirect communication, but this perspective no longer reflects reality. In...
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...
Strategic Insights: Taking Over a Start-Up vs. an Established SME
By Fernanda Arreola, Damien Guermonprez, and Renaud Redien-Collot
The skills required to successfully lead one type of enterprise may not fully apply or be relevant...
Strategy at the Pace of Technology: Integrating Technology Into Strategy Development Can Drive Growth...
By Rachel Barton
Most business leaders understand that the boldest business strategies are both informed by and delivered through technology. Our study explores three significant...
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...
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...
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,...
How Should Brands Think About Political Activism?
By Matt Johnson
When it comes to engaging in activism, it's crucial that the brand should be intrinsically driven to address this issue, and isn't...
Insights into the Relevance of Strategic Management
By Dr. Anna Rostomyan
In order to thrive, start-ups and other innovative ventures are well advised to begin with a well-thought-out plan. Could the concept...
Amazon, Just a Click Away from Luxury
What are the Implications for Selective Distribution?
By Xavier Derville and Jean-Noël Kapferer
Has the strategy of selective distribution, on which luxury brands depend for survival, evolved in the...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
A Winning Deal: How Biculturals Can Supercharge Your International Business Negotiations
By Priyan Khakhar and Jasmina Najjar
Transform how you approach international business negotiations with new findings that provide a novel contribution to the field. Discover...
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...
Impact of Digital on How We Implement Change
By Audra Proctor
No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...
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...
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...
