Market Similarities and Differences
The trading market mainly consists of options, forex, and the commodity market. Among these three markets, the forex market is the most prominent. All...
Four pathways to ‘Future Ready’ that pay off
By Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner and Nick van der Meulen
Transformation is not easy but the companies who have reached “Future Ready” have significantly...
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 when...
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....
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...
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 are the Challenges Facing E-Commerce Today and their Solutions?
Over the past 10-15 years, electronic trading platforms have emerged in the depths of large enterprises as a system of resource allocation between departments....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amazingly Good Sales Pitch Examples
Let’s face it — selling is hard work. Convincing a prospective buyer to trust you and consider your offer can be extremely difficult. It’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Understanding Consumer Touchpoints to Improve Your Business
Running a business can be difficult at times, which is why striving for better should always be at the forefront of everyone’s mind.
This is...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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
We are living in a time that’s both exciting and scary for businesses across the globe. This is because on one hand, businesses have...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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 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,...
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 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...
Remote Working: Why Your Career may not Zoom Ahead as Much as You’d Like
By Rocio Bonet and Peter Cappelli
Much is being said these days about what the future of work will look like. The most important of...
Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation
By Yazeed Alhezzani
It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
Reach your Goals Faster with these 4 Powerful Progress Tracking Tools
Whether you’re planning out your career or taking a project from start to finish, you’ll reach your goals faster if you track progress.
Biologically, human...
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...
“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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
