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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.

Future Insight – From a 350th Birthday to the Start of a Global Movement

By Ulrich A.K. Betz Merck, a vibrant science and technology company, celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2018. Dr. Ulrich A.K. Betz, VP and Head of...

What Will Business Operations Look like After COVID-19?

COVID-19 is currently impacting business operations and it looks like these are here to stay for the foreseeable future. HR management software can change...
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What Are the Top Ways to Reduce Crypto Volatility: How to Stabilize the Market?

In the past two years, we have already seen how badly the pandemic has affected the cryptocurrency market, it has not only led to...

Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences

By Jonathan Trevor Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...
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Are European Stocks and Economies Making a Comeback?

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor After a rocky start to August, the European Stoxx 600 Index looks more promising than it has for a...

Delivering Innovation in Unified Communications

The business world is one of constant change. Technology lets us reach colleagues, customers, and partners whenever and wherever needed; yet each innovation brings...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World

The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World

By Sandra Sieber and Javier Zamora To be effective in the new world of digital transformation, any organisation needs to address cybersecurity as a continuous...

How We Teach: Innovation

Interview with Bangor Business School In our quest to keep you up to date with the latest research in business education, we talk to John...

Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century

By Karl-Heinz Streibich The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective.  Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...

The Illusion of Choice

From the Editors As Greece and the rest of the Eurozone finally reached an agreement last week for a third Greek bailout package, one cannot...
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IT Industry Role in Ukrainian GDP

In the modern era of 2022, information technology is a must when it comes to business. It is always said that business is driven...

Innovation and Integration for an Environmentally Friendly Alberta

Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less. Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...

Dubai Airport Freezone Authority Attracts International Investors Ahead of Expo 2020

Many overseas businesses are already aware of the advantages Dubai has to offer. For nearly twenty years, Dubai Airport Freezone Authority has been offering...
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Top Executive Education in 2021: Fully Online and Blended Programmes

By Pamela Martinez It is without a doubt 2021 brings with it a newfound sense of purpose, a breath of fresh air from the lonesome...
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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 Transformation Manifesto

By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...

The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...

By Albert Meige An analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and...

When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
Societal Challenges into Business through Value Sharing

Turning Societal Challenges into Business through Value Sharing

By Simona Rocchi, Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh, Karthik Subbaraman, Luc de Clerck and Reon Brand How do brands stay meaningful and relevant in the 21st...

Changing Perceptions: the Island of Jersey brings digital ideas to success

Interview with Tony Moretta, CEO of Digital Jersey The European Business Review caught up with Tony Moretta, the CEO of Digital Jersey. Jersey has just...
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Nation States Must Comply With Their Responsibility to Protect Ukraine Against the Russian Federation’s...

By Charles H. Camp, Kiran Nasir Gore and Lilia Chu The UN Charter, signed in 1945, reflects the international community’s collective transnationalist view that unilateral tactics, coercion, and sheer...

Unify Your Communications

The way people work is changing fast – and competitive companies need to keep up. On site and remote employees alike rely on conferencing,...

The Burning Platform of Retail Banking

By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...

Is Your Innovation Strategy Ready to Meet the 21st Century?

By Tamara Bekefi and Marc J. Epstein We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...

Knowledge Architects Wanted

By Tammi L. Coles Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...

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...

The State of the Indian Economy and Where Europeans Can Invest, with Insights from...

Things have changed drastically in India’s economy over the past twenty years or so. And few people have had a view as up close...

Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking

By Richard Ball As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...

The Rise of the Mobility Maker

Forward-thinking fleet managers can spark sustainable change by re-evaluating their roles and pursuing a new approach to Business Mobility. Just a few years ago‭, ‬the...

Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation

By Karin Bursa Does your company have the right S&OP process in place? These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...

Fintech: a Force for Disrupting and Democratising Financial Services

Fintech is like a snowball on a hill that is getting bigger and bigger and changing finance tremendously. London-based entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya is well...

Serving valued banking relationships generation after generation

Aside from having the second largest banking sector in the Eastern Caribbean region, Antigua and Barbuda also houses the “grandfather” of international financial services...

Putting Supply Chain Performance at Your Fingertips

By Karin Bursa Leveraging supply chain analytics to boost corporate performance Is your company run on intuition? Or do you have a set of metrics that...
Rental Crisis in Berlin: Why Tenants Are Suing

Rental Crisis in Berlin Explained: Why Tenants Are Suing, Landlords Are Leaving, and Debt...

Berlin – The German capital, once an affordable haven for students, artists, and digital nomads, is now struggling with a less visible but equally...

The Strategy-to-Execution Process: A Critical Component of Transient Competitive Advantage

By Jack Calhoun It’s not simply having a good idea that separates marketplace winners from losers – it’s possessing the ability to execute. In fact,...

Nanomaterials-Moving towards stabilisation

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 The nanomaterials industry (NMs) is slowly evolving, from producing a suite of innovative materials in Research and Development (R&D) to laying a basis whereby...

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...

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...

3 Trends that Are Shaping the Future of Laboratories

Laboratories are crucial to the scientific development of conceptual and theoretical knowledge to help learn through scientific experiments and methods. When it comes to...

A New World Order with Industry 4.0

From the Editors The Internet of things has invaded individual space and now live in our pockets in the shape of that little computer gadget...

Digitalisation: The Pharmakon of Open Organisations

By Albert Meige The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise – the same entity we are familiar with today.1...

Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?

By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...
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Can Sovereign Wealth Funds be the Answer to US Economic Strength? 

By Deanne Butchey and Jerry Haar In February of this year, President Trump called for the creation of a national Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) with...

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