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...
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...
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Value?
By Ari-Matti Erjansola
This essay discusses the plural nature of value in business, arguing that value is not fixed or purely economic but relational and...
Why a Successful Leader is an Engaging Storyteller
By Ang Brennan
Most strategies fail not because they're poorly designed, but because leaders haven’t yet developed the storytelling skills to make them live and...
Your Seventh Sense: Beyond Mindfulness
By William Duggan
In this article, Willian Duggan explores the practice of Free Your Mind, a way to turn stress into strategy and to turn...
The Business Case for Happiness: Five Expert Tips for Creating Thriving Workplaces
By George Kohlrieser, Andrew Kohlrieser, Lord Mark Price, Zoe Sinclair, Michael Wade, Amit Joshi and Tim Duggan
In an era where employee wellbeing fuels business...
“Delegate to Grow, Deliver Work with Real Impact, Stay Deliberately Profitable:” Eight Creative, Tech...
From an AI-driven creativity crisis, the new junk food ad ban to a possible Omnicom/Interpublic merger, 2024 has been nothing if not challenging. As...
How to Lead Successful Change Management for Good
By Knut Haanaes and Julia Binder
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. This...
Trust Is the Moat That Growth Metrics Cannot Build
By Yulia Farber
After a decade of hypergrowth metrics defining success, the companies built to last are those that users actively choose to trust.
For ten...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Unlocking innovation with xTech partners
By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner
When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
EU AI Act Preparatory Obligations in Force: What it Means for Risk, Governance and...
Preparatory obligations under the EU AI Act have taken effect, signalling a shift from policy ambition to operational enforcement. Organisations must now address enterprise...
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...
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...
Knowledge Architects Wanted
By Tammi L. Coles
Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...
Future Thinking Bias or Foresight-Inspired Strategy
By Svyatoslav Biryulin
Many companies are happy having their three-year strategic plans (or even five-year ones). But such a short-seeing might be dangerous in the...
Getting Value from Digital Technologies
By Frank Cespedes and Georg Krentzel
Companies need digital technologies in an omni-channel buying world where online and in-person interactions are complements, not either /...
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...
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....
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...
Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations: Should You Go All in?
By Daniel Freeman
AI is becoming smarter and being utilised in our daily lives, whether we realise it or not. You may be wondering at...
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...
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...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
US Tariffs: How Should Europe Respond?
By Dr Angela Garcia Calvo
As Europe (and the rest of the world) continues to navigate the daily twists and turns of President Trump’s recent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
Dynamic Strategy Map: Navigating Uncertainty with Real-Time Adaptation
By Alex Milovanovich
Blending classic and modern strategy thinking, this article presents the Dynamic Strategy Map - an iterative, seven-step process, integrating deliberate strategy building...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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.”...
Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise
By Mostafa Sayyadi
There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately, the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In...
How to Future-proof Your Business?
By Jerry Temko
During the past few months, major recruiters have been reporting on the impact that today's choppy economic headwinds are having on the...
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...
How to Turn Long-Term Expatriates Into Global Assets
By Sebastian Reiche, Stefan Jooss, Margaret Shaffer and Jan Selmer
More and more professionals are extending the time they spend on international assignments, building lives...
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...
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,...
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...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
By Bart Tkaczyk
Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
