How to Ensure the Safety and Security of Your Office
Office safety and security should be important topics for any business, no matter its industry, size, and scope. Ensuring the workplace is up to...
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...
From Surviving to Thriving: Business after Coronavirus
At the beginning of 2020, many people found it difficult to adapt to some of the changes due to the pandemic. Everyone can tell...
Feel to Deal: The Power of Emotions in Negotiations
By Prof. Guido Stein, Salva Badillo, and Lucía Zelaya
The key to a successful negotiation is not embedded in knowledge or reasoning ability but in...
Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and the Future
By David De Cremer
The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...
Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs
By David De Cremer
It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...
Sudden Disasters That Might Jeopardize Your Business
Running a business is amazing, regardless of your location, your industry, your niche, and the size of your company, but it’s also a very...
Boards Face Leadership Crisis in Changing Times
By Andrew Kakabadse
Boards can prove easy targets for their critics. Below, Andrew Kakabadse discusses how to make boards work, and argues that directors should...
How Duty of Care Became Top Priority for Businesses
CEO of risk intelligence company Riskline, Kennet Nordlien, shares his first-hand experience of responding to businesses’ needs during the pandemic
Duty of care is now...
On Ultraintelligence and Ultra Risks
By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Kamil Mizgier
What is your pet goldfish's take on the “Offside” rule? Chances are, it’s a little...
Why Is First Aid Training So Important in the Workplace?
No matter how safe your workplace is, accidents can still occur - it’s in the meaning of the word accident!
Although the UK has an...
How Businesses Are Getting Back on Track in China
By Svenja Falk, Frank Riemensperger and Serena Qiu
Two months ahead of most other businesses in dealing with COVID-19, companies in China offer key insights...
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...
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...
Public Hospitals Faced With COVID-19: Lessons From Logistics Management
By Gilles Paché
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted main challenges in supply chain management. The European example shows that public hospitals have made effective logistical...
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...
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...
Crisis Management Examples to Learn From
During a PR crisis it can feel like the world’s attention is on your business. Teams and individuals often panic under the public spotlight....
Breaking Down Business Resilience, Post-Pandemic: The Data Reveal Surprises—and a Blueprint for Moving Forward.
By Jacques Bughin and Francis Hintermann
The global pandemic, in addition to generating massive harm to people’s health and communities, split the business world in...
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...
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...
Where does adaptability fit in for businesses during Covid-19?
By Paul Williamson
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unforeseen effect on industries across Europe, pushing many businesses back to the starting line after being...
Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?
By Peter Lorange
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions. Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...
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...
Managing Crises in the Digital Age
By Edward Segal
In today’s hyperconnected world, crises spread rapidly through social media, amplifying misinformation and shaping public perception. This article outlines how leaders can...
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...
Client Advisory: How To Cultivate The Ultimate Consultant For Real-World Strategies That Work
By Leon Gauhman
Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how clients can sidestep endemic problems in the consultancy sector, vetting...
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 Can Leaders Build Reputation in Chinese SMEs
By William S. Harvey, Hongqin Li, Oswald Jones and Jie Yang
How can leaders transform their SMEs from being unknown to being known and more...
Does a COVID-19 Infection Constitute a Workplace Accident?
As lockdowns are lifted and as people gradually return to work, there are many fears that need to be quelled in order for people...
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...
Strategic Drivers for the Post-Pandemic Era
By Dr. Alessandro Lanteri
Every day business news cover dozens of new products, technologies, consumer behaviours, and business models that could be critical to the...
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...
Turning A Weakness Into A Strength: Why Leaders Should Never Leave The Battlefield
By David De Cremer
It is no secret that within the business world companies have a starting date, but also that one day they will...
The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...
By Dr. Peter Lorange
Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...
COVID-19 vaccines to save the world: don’t neglect supply chain challenges
By Gilles Paché
Since the spring of 2020, due to the spread of a new, very virulent coronavirus, the planet has been going through an...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
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...
How Can You Secure A Construction Site?
If you have decided to put an addition onto your home, build your own home, or even extend or build onto your business, you’ll...
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 to Manage the Reputation of Your Business during the Pandemic
By William S. Harvey
Reputation is an invaluable intangible asset that impacts on how your staff, customers and other key stakeholders perceive your organisation. This...
Where Does Resilience Come From? It’s Your Progress in Digital Transformation, Especially in Times...
By Howard Yu and Shan Jialu
The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first
Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why Forecasting is Fixated with Accuracy: The Risk of Ignoring Feedback
By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. Kamil Mizgier
When it comes to building models for the purpose of forecasting, system designers are naturally concerned that...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
Summary
Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
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...
