The Great Resignation
By Adrian Furnham
Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
How to Build Personal Resilience to Navigate a Business Disaster
By David Ross
It doesn’t take long to recall prominent business disasters. Volkswagen’s “emissions-gate” is still before the courts and there are regulatory and legal...
How Global Companies Are Implementing Supplier Diversity Policies
By Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca and Gemma Berenguer
It has become increasingly common for companies to implement supply-chain diversity to maintain a good image...
How to Protect Your Senior Leaders from Burnout: Simple, Company-Wide Leadership Behaviour Changes to...
By Andy Brown
Protecting senior leaders from burnout is essential for sustainable business success. This article from award-winning leadership coach and Amazon best-selling author, Andy...
Towards the Building of Organisational Resilience: Uncovering the Key Features
By Simon L. Dolan, Adnane Belout, Jean-Luc Cerdin, and Javier Casademunt1
Introduction
Organisational resilience refers to an organisation's ability to adapt, respond, and recover from disruptive...
How to Build a Resilient Organisation
Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School
As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
The Myth of Fixability: Why Do We Think there is a Silver Bullet to...
By Steve Hearsum
Complex and messy problems are everywhere, not just in business, but in life more generally. Yet the way in which we face...
Winning in the Complex World of Geopolitics
By Elizabeth Stephens and J. Mark Munoz
New rules of the game
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have accelerated the drivers of...
Preparing for the Next Virus – Pandemic Lessons for IT Infrastructure
By Simon Michie
How do businesses prepare for the next virus or major upheaval that disrupts supply chains and operations like the pandemic?
We saw how...
7 Key Steps for Minimizing Risk in the Event of a Plant Explosion
When the unimaginable happens and a plant explosion rocks the community, the chaos and confusion can be overwhelming. If you're in Texas, where industrial...
Balancing Productivity and Remote Work to Avoid The Great Resignation
By Elise Carmichael
The business world is facing an ever-growing challenge: striking the balance between optimising employee productivity levels and providing job satisfaction. Here we...
How To Handle Winter Supply Chain Delays Without Losing Customers
When you own a business, you know that there will be situations along your journey that create problems. Some of these are preventable, and...
Transforming Humanitarian Aid Operations with Intelligent Automation
By Dalia Alic
Disasters in numbers: approximately 274 million people needed humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022, with additional 17.7 million people in need due...
The Eutopia of Engaging in Unconditional Kindness to Self and Others
By Salvador García Sánchez and Simon L. Dolan
Introduction
“Resilience” seems to be a common term used by professionals in many disciplines. Psychologists and medical experts...
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Explained
A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) management system is key to following food hygiene and safety measures. As a food production company,...
Diagnosis: We have PII and IP… now what?
By Dr. Nina Mohadjer, LL.M.
Many corporations are facing the impossible. They have PII and IP, but once exposed, they face the risk of either...
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...
Digital Communication and Public Concern During Natural Disasters.
By Federico Platania, Celina Toscano, and Fernanda Arreola
While it makes sense that governments should use social media for effective communication with the public in...
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....
Best Practices for Dealing with Sudden Business Disasters
Businesses must be ready to deal with unforeseen difficulties that might interrupt their operations in today's quickly evolving business environment. These business disasters, which...
12 Tips to Develop a Crisis Management Plan for Your Small Business
It's no secret that crisis management is essential to the survival of any business, regardless of its size. However, smaller businesses often lack the...
Resilience Is More than Being Able to Rebound: It Should Be Used As a...
By Jacques Bughin
While they may not be able to prevent pending economic crises such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses can use...
How Organisations Should Prepare to Face Increasing Industrial Unrest?
By David Liddle
Industrial unrest is escalating across Europe. In recent months there have been dockworker strikes in Germany, and industrial action by teachers, health,...
Crisis Management During March Madness and How Companies Handle It
March Madness is one of the most highly anticipated sporting events of the year in the United States, with millions of fans tuning in...
Infrastructure Department Struggles With 14% Spending Cut
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland is facing a significant budgetary challenge in the coming year. Compared to the previous year, there...
On the Road Again: Putting the Rock Tour Supply Chain on Music
By Gilles Paché
Rock tours attract millions of fans each year around the world. But are concertgoers aware of the logistics involved in pulling off...
Common Challenges Faced by Associations
Running an association can be rewarding work, but you will find that there are numerous challenges that most face, and these are often ongoing....
Why Fire Watch Guards Services Should Be Taken in Commercial Businesses?
One of the most important things a business owner can do to prevent a fire is to keep fire alarm systems and sprinklers functioning...
How Business Owners Can Prevent Personal Injuries
Workplace injuries can have huge impacts on a business. The cost is high the lost productivity, medical bills, compensation paperwork, and reduced morale. The...
First Aid Training – Imperative at Work
First aid training is important at work, especially if you work in a high-risk environment. It's also important to take care of yourself during...
The Rise and Fall of Supply Systems: From Global to Regional?
By Gilles Paché
The war in Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis whose first economic repercussions, particularly in terms of inflation, were quickly felt in...
The Housing & Homeless Crisis We’re Facing
New Open Property Group research found that England is facing both a significant homeless and housing crisis. In England, between January 2022 and March...
Shield Your New Business Against Market Disruptions Using These Tips
The European inflation does not indicate a winter lull, as it remains elevated at 10%. Although it’s an improvement from the previous month, estimates...
Impact of Russia Ukraine Conflict
By Chloe Riley
In just less than a week, the devastating impact of the conflict in Ukraine on the global economy is already being...
How Are Supermarkets Dealing With Increasing Energy Prices?
As wholesale energy prices went up in 2022, most businesses have been impacted by higher bills. This scenario is playing out very differently for...
Closing Your Business – The Myths Debunked
The myths and "paper talk" surrounding business closures can sometimes conceal the truth of what actually occurs when one shuts down. You're likely to get a different response...
Managing Geopolitical Risk Under Uncertainty
By Ghaidaa Hetou and J. Mark Munoz
Geopolitical shifts born out of the US-China-Russia rivalry have manifested in supply chain interruptions, divestments, national security directed...
Tips On Crisis Management For Your Business
It is important to prepare for any eventuality that could lead to a crisis for your business. This could come about due to internal...
Supply Chain Management in a Disruptive Environment
By Ki Ling Cheung
Global organisations must rethink supply chain management to cope with the aggravated supply chain challenges resulting from all sorts of disruptions,...
The Most Common Forms of Online Payment Fraud and How Merchants Can Combat Them
By Pavels Smirnovs
Online shopping has grown dramatically in popularity and scope over the last decade, with the events of 2020 forcing ever-greater numbers of...
8 Tips to Prevent Slip and Fall Injuries on Business Property
Your workplace environment should be a place where your workers feel safe doing their jobs. The leading causes of workplace injuries and worker’s compensation...
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...
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,...
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...
The Financial Exclusion Problem Facing Ukrainian Refugees and What Can Be Done
By Mikkel Velin, co-CEO, YouLend
With the tools and resources available today, it should be a given that refugee entrepreneurs should be able to flourish...
Strategies for Sudden Shock- Market Rewards Good Performance Also During Tough Times
By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen and Alexandra Oborina
Every company’s strategy aims to grow revenue, profit, and market capitalization. When global economy was accelerating, these...
Finding Focus Post Pandemic: Growing a Resilient Business in a Volatile World
By Steve Lewis
Steve Lewis took the reins as CEO of global re/insurance advisor Pro Global just before the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic....
What Is a Business Consultant?
Hiring a consultant may assist companies in improving their performance and making the required adjustments to attain success.
Business consultants aid organizations in overcoming...
New Ransomcloud Threats Demand Action From the Top
By Gavin Knapp
Global expenditure on cloud services rose 34 per cent year-on-year in the final quarter of 2021, hitting $53.5bn as the great migration...
Four Ways to Fortify Office Security
As a proponent of vehicle safety in the earlier half of the twentieth century, Eleanor Everet once proclaimed: “safety is not a gadget but...
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Feel to Deal: The Power of Emotions in Negotiations
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The key to a successful negotiation is not embedded in knowledge or reasoning ability but in applying emotional intelligence. This essay explains the role of emotions...
We Need to Talk About Women Bullying Other Women at Work & 6 Key Things We Can do to Change it
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The truth is out: women are not supporting each other enough in the workplace. Despite efforts to advance gender equality, the latest global gender gap report reveals only a 1% increase annually...
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