Will Vaccine Passports Be Required to Travel to Europe?
After news of two approved coronavirus vaccines broke in late 2020, many were hopeful that the pandemic would soon be over.
While countries around the...
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...
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...
“Operation Boomerang” Let Gracefulness Activate Good Karma to Bring Them Back to you
By Avi Liran
Dale Carnegie said “Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.” How can employers use this theory to turn The Great Resignation into...
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...
Seven Business Threats That Your Company Might Face
Running a business is a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. One day, you are on cloud nine to get a massive bulk...
Solving Marketing’s Inventory Crisis
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua Bellin
Just-in-time manufacturing was adopted shortly after World War II to save companies from drowning in excess inventory as...
Supporting Crisis Teams and Countering Burnout: A Strategic Essential
By Dr Anthony Renshaw
The ongoing permacrisis has amplified burnout risks, especially for crisis management teams under immense pressure. This article highlights their challenges and...
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...
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...
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...
Intel Corporation: Gordon Moore’s Unique Leadership Strategic Laws and a Mysterious Strategic Turning Point
By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael J. Provitera
This is a peek at Gordon Moore, the co-founder and emeritus CEO of Intel, who has been noted...
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. ...
How to Protect Yourself Against Cloned Firms
Cloned firms have been plaguing financial companies across the UK for years and they can be a real nuisance.
A cloned firm essentially ‘clones’ your...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Digital Twins 101: The Virtual Strategy Reshaping How Businesses Operate
By Terence Tse
Does your company run complex machinery for which downtime would mean serious costs? A digital twin could be just what's needed.
If your...
How Retailers Need To Evolve To Thrive After Covid-19
2020 was the year that many businesses either shut down or completely folded up due to the pandemic. Thus, many retailers came up with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Keep Calm and Carry on: A British Year in COVID
By Ben Hogg
As parts of Europe plunged into a new wave of national lockdowns, the UK is seeing restrictions ease this month, with individuals...
Threats and Negotiations: Don’t Be an Idiot with a Gun in Your Hand
By Philippe Roy
You’re thinking of using threats in a negotiation? Well, if you stick out your gun, you’d better be ready to shoot, otherwise...
Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic Highlights the Role of National Cultures
By Bhaskar Pant
The novel coronavirus has affected countries around the globe. It is non-discriminatory in terms of who it hits. It is oblivious to...
How to Successfully Scale Artificial Intelligence
How organizations are using data and AI to bring resilience and innovation to their operations
By Anne-Laure Thieullent
A few months ago, countries closed their borders,...
Organizational Preparedness with COVID-19: Strategic Planning and Human Creativity
By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma
COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...
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...
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 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...
How European Businesses Can Protect Themselves From AI Information Vacuums
By Jonathan Armstrong
As AI adoption accelerates across Europe, a new and often overlooked risk is emerging known as AI information vacuums. With search engines...
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...
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...
How to Overcome Challenges from Unpredicted Events
There are those moments in every business where events just come from out of the blue and seem to be random and possibly catastrophic.
When...
Leadership in Times of Crisis
By Lucy Franklin
What a difference a few weeks makes. When planning for the new financial year, I doubt anyone in Europe saw this coming...
Enhancing the Role of Strategic Sourcing for Supply Chains amid Tariffs Trade War
By Guilherme F. Frederico
The beginning of 2025 has brought uncertainty to global supply chains due to the new US administration’s tariffs on global trade....
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...
Are We Facing “A Crisis of Insularity” or Has Management Simply Rediscovered the Moon?
By Dr Leandro Herrero
The managerial temptation is to take a permanent feature of social organisation, give it the status of a newly discovered crisis,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
How the South African Economy Reacts to Global Crisis
This year, the novel coronavirus has shattered economies around the globe. No country was left untouched, with almost a million deaths by mid-September. South...
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...
