How to Make Your Ecommerce Business An Attractive Buy
Selling a business is the ultimate goal of many entrepreneurs. It’s a huge milestone that can provide a substantial cash infusion and a great...
Addressing the Growing Threat of the DDoS Attack
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are designed to degrade or destroy the availability of a certain service, such as an organization’s web presence. These...
5 Tips For Growing Your Online Reputation
In 2017, a study showed that 97% of people look for online reviews before they decide to make a business decision — to purchase...
Outdated and Unfit: Traditional Knowledge-sharing Systems Exposed by the Pandemic
By Graham Mills, Co-founder and Managing Director of Techspert
“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”
Einstein’s famous quote should really ring true...
Top 5 Amazing Business Card Ideas to Boost Your Marketing Strategy
Though there are many ways to connect with new clients and network with people online, the traditional business card still holds value. In fact,...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an...
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...
Trends That Will Shape up Ecommerce in the Next Few Years
New trends shape the way entrepreneurs think about running their ecommerce business. And with how fast the technology is advancing, one should be on...
What Makes You an Effective Leader in Crisis Situations?
By David De Cremer
For many organizational leaders and entrepreneurs, the coronavirus crisis represents a very challenging environment to lead and motivate their teams.
What do...
An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
Do You Realise How Scary You Are?
By Megan Reitz and John Higgins
Most managers know they need to create an environment where people can speak up in order to hear innovative...
Overlooked Strategies for Surviving the US-China Trade War (and possibly others)
By Dan Prud’homme and Mark Cohen
The trade war between the US and China has escalated to a point far beyond the expectations of many....
Beyond Collaborative Intelligence we can see a Meta-Mind Society Surfacing and we can Dream...
Facts, Fads and predictions about the joint venture of Human Mind and AI algorithms
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Claudio Cisullo and Bonnie A....
Making Failure Work
By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou
For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel
By Francesca Gino
Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...
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...
Sometimes Being Yourself is the Best Globalisation Strategy: Lessons from a K-Pop Group, BTS
By Won-Yong Oh and Mooweon Rhee
Multinational corporations face the paradox of globalisation and localisation in expanding foreign markets. As the BTS’s success shows, the...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
Software AG: Touching the Lives of Millions for Half a Century!
There is a software company that does things differently; not clamouring to be the latest headline, but quietly running the world with precision for 50 years...
Lessons from Ellen MacArthur and the Circular Economy on How Leaders can Build...
By Peter Hopkinson and William S. Harvey
The growth of interest in the circular economy has been meteoric with new initiatives emerging weekly. A...
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...
Craftsmanship Meets Technology: A Conversation with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen
In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...
Rethinking Future Higher Education
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek
“Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.”
The world around...
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...
Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in male and female leaders’ use of...
By Vanessa Marcié and Sucheta Nadkarni
While humour can serve as a key to improve work culture and leadership effectiveness, there is a good chance that you are...
Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
How Women Leaders Build The Career They Thrive In
By Christie Hunter Arscott and Lauren Noël
Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead,...
Leading as a Coach: Advancing Career, Transforming Life
An Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Nowicka Mook, Executive Director and CEO, ICF
A professional coaching program has proven to be a powerful catalyst for helping...
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...
Tailoring the Strategy Function for Success
By Jo Whitehead, Felix Barber and Rebecca Homkes
Enterprises face a host of challenges today, including digital disruption and changing global trade patterns. In such...
The E-Car Will Change Human Behaviour
By Stefan Krause and Boris Liedtke
In this article, the authors share why despite the attacks on new mobility technology and the fact that there...
NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential
By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge
In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...
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...
21st Century Leaders: Driving Success Amid Intense Disruption
Fujitsu’s Duncan Tait on the imperatives for unlocking value in the digital age
Besides having superior knowledge about optimising digital for their business, what else...
Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth
What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...
What the French Open can Teach Businesses about Branding
The Ten Key Lessons Every Marketer Should Know
By Laurence Minsky and Colleen Fahey
Improving one’s brand identity is indeed one of the greatest challenges marketers...
Amazon, Just a Click Away from Luxury
What are the Implications for Selective Distribution?
By Xavier Derville and Jean-Noël Kapferer
Has the strategy of selective distribution, on which luxury brands depend for survival, evolved in the...
Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy
By David de Cremer
Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
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...
Hunter or Hunted? How Digital Media and GDPR Increases Importance of Inbound B2B Sales
By Laurence Minsky and Keith Quesenberry
Today, through prior digital and social media research, organisational buyers approach their vendor sales teams much more informed. Hence,...
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...
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....
5 Smart Ways to Increase Europe’s “AIQ”
By Francis Hintermann, Madhu Vazirani, and Carsten Lexa
At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
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,...
Digital Reality No.1: Customer Experience is Value
By Stijn Viaene
Customer-centric practices have been one of the key considerations in this age of digital transformation. In this article, Professor Stijn Viaene elaborates...
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:...
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...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
