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This category is Special Features, showcasing exclusive insights, in-depth analyses, and thought leadership on key business trends and innovations. It highlights expert perspectives, industry spotlights, and groundbreaking ideas shaping the future of business and leadership.

Collaborative Creativity: Leading High Performance through Theatre

By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...

AI is about to revolutionise online financial services — here’s how it could benefit...

There’s a common belief that times of crisis bring great change. With the COVID 19 outbreak shaking the world to its core, we could...

Enhancing Value Through Customer Centric Supply Chain

An exclusive interview with Allan Dow, President, Logility In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...

Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope

The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...
NATO Alliance

The NATO Alliance: Will It Have a Future?

By Joseph Mazur Withdrawal and isolation could avoid foreign affairs and wars, but the costs will be far higher in the long run. Since the end...

Unlocking Leaders’ Potential

CareSource, one of the largest public sector managed care companies in the United States partners with ICF (International Coaching Federation) to deliver Leadership Transition...

Australian Regulator Wastes Millions on “Overly Aggressive” Crusade Against Job Creator GetSwift

In these difficult times, hundreds of global employees (especially in the Americas and Europe) at GetSwift can take comfort in the growth trajectory of...

At Your Service: Management with HEART

Interview with Rommel Gonzales The Bellevue Resort, Bohol, Philippines   “In the hospitality and airline industry, you are not selling rooms, nor selling airline seats. You are...
Group of happy businesspeople

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:...

The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS

By Sherilyn Casiano To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....

Aargau, Switzerland: Home of Innovation

Welcome to Aargau – the Swiss high-tech canton with a Triple A rating. In Aargau, where the number of people working in R&D is...

Enemy within

From the Editors Europe is in the grips of anti-immigrant sentiments aimed mostly against their Muslim citizens and new émigrés. One wonders what would happen...
crypto

The inclusion of Cryptocurrency in the Global Economic Structure

Cryptocurrency is basically a unique form of digital currency, mainly used to buy services or products online. Crypto transactions are secured using an online...
forex markets

How will the GBP perform in forex markets while being affected by Brexit and...

From the perspective of a forex trader, you can't beat a period of uncertainty and volatility. Therefore, 2020 into the new year has been the...

How Banks Grow Now

By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...

Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?

By Maurits van Rooijen Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...

Election Postmortem – The Leadership System

By Barbara Kellerman Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...
buy and sell houses

How to Buy and Sell Houses in a Slow Economy

By Raymond James For many homeowners, selling a house in a normal economy can be a somewhat tense and stressful endeavor. However, if you are...
Nigeria

Is the Nigeria vs P&ID case the Empire’s Last Stand?

By Brian Brivati The laws of international trade and investment arbitration have been weighted heavily against developing and emerging economies and in favour of developed...

A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy

By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....

UK – the most undemocratic democracy

From the Editors The United Kingdom woke up on Friday 23 June to new realities: the Kingdom was no longer ‘united’ and its constituent parts...
Employee Scheduling Tips for Small Businesses (2020)

How to Manage Employee Scheduling in Small Businesses in 2020

If there’s one thing managers have to do better than anyone is schedule staff effectively and efficiently, otherwise, no work would ever get done....
Organisation’s Core: Millennials

A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials

By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...

Getting Face Time

By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...

A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully

By Dr. Richard Stallman If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not...
Microsoft

Layoffs in Tech: Redistribution of Resources Amid a Tech Transformation

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review For years tech companies have been struggling to find qualified talent, but the tables...

Royalty-Free Standards vs. Loyalty-Free-Standards: Freedom from royalties, or freedom of choice?

By Eric K. Clemons Why would you expect good standards to be free? Why does a royalty-free standard often result in a client’s entrapment in...
GDPR

GDPR – Death Knell or a New Life for Customer Analytics?

By Amit Joshi Even before the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the European Union’s 28 member states, European firms apparently had...
Sergey Khotimski

Driving Success Through Agile Banking: An Exclusive Interview with Sergey Khotimskiy

Started out as a local bank catering to a niche market, Sovcombank became one of the largest in terms of assets and most profitable...

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Really – The Impact of the Sanctions Against Russia

By Dan Steinbock The sanctions against Russia are working; but not for Russia, Ukraine, the EU, or even the US. In the 2nd quarter, Russia’s GDP...

Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation

“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...

How Blockchain Technology and AI can catalyze the economic recovery in 2021

This has been a difficult year to survive and thrive economically. With a drastic rate of rising unemployment and businesses still facing existential threats,...
Ukrain

Ukrainian Reforms: Social Protests as Payoffs for Implementing European Standards

In May 2009, Ukraine became a party to the Eastern Partnership multilateral program, initiated by the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Poland, Carl Bildt...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia

Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia

It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...

The Future of Gender Equality, from School to Boardroom

Helena Morrissey Talks with Camille Merrells Helena Morrissey is the unstoppable CEO of Newton, Chair of the Investment Management Association (IMA) and founder of...

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...

Enter the Age of Intelligent Business Operations

By John Bates Is your firm stuck in the Customer Service Dark Ages? Or have you entered the Age of Customer Experience Management?...

Future Proofing the Capital Value of Your Business

By Richard Shrapnel Succession is a dynamic journey, and anyone involved in this process should seek to understand it before venturing forward. Below, Richard Shrapnel...

Just deserts!

From the Editors It was Joseph de Maistre who said, "Every country has the government it deserves", and “In a democracy people get the leaders...

Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment

By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
Display Advertising Trends of 2019

Revealed: The Display Advertising Trends of 2019

Advertising technology provider Bannerflow, has created an infographic revealing the four key trends affecting European display advertising in 2019. Display ads continue to thrive in...

The Rise Of The Imagination Economy

By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...

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