AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World
By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin
The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
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...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews
By Adrian Furnham
Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
New Leadership for a Sustainable Future
By Matt Gitsham
At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
Don’t Fear the Black Swan, Take it as an Opportunity to Soar
By Kevin Peters, President and CEO, NetNumber
When a black swan event, an unexpected occurrence that has a substantial impact on society and business, happens, businesses...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
Building the Strategic Architecture of the Post Pandemic Corporate Landscape
By Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Alessandro Lanteri and Dr. Terence Tse
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major disruptor for tried and tested approaches...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
The Role of AR/VR in the Development of the Metaverse
By Oleksii Tsymbal
The past year has been full of bold new tech ideas, and the metaverse is on the top of the list. By...
How Should a Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation?
By Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck
Engaging in digital transformation is a dilemma. Either the transformation is aggressive enough to scale,- but brings the...
Unlocking Schumpeter. Fostering Innovation Within Our Organizations
By Pedro B. Agua
History has shown that when organizations have approached some threshold concerning their markets saturation, be it by product or process improvements,...
More than Policies: Bricks, Mortar, and Entrepreneurship
By David Johnson and John Mackenzie
Science commercialisation activities at the university-industry boundary are key drivers to high-growth, sustainable university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs). To support...
Humanity First! The AiTH Manifesto: Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society
By David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan, Andreas Deppeler, Mahak Nagpal, Jack McGuire and Jess Zhang, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business...
All Change – but which Platform? Confronting Shift in the Telecom Sector
Interview with Kevin Peters, President and CEO at NetNumber
All technology-based companies operate in an arena of constant change. However, perhaps no sector is subject...
Cloud-native Banking: Empowering Delivery of Great Financial Experiences
Interview with Mr. Eugene Danilkis, CEO of SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu
Digitalisation and the cloud have transformed the way in which financial services are offered....
Refining the Search for Executive Talent in Europe
Interview with Daversa Partners’ Wendy Colvano - Director & Head of Europe
With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need...
How European Companies can use the Cloud to Increase their Competitiveness
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Surya Mukherjee and Gargi Chakrabarty
Most European business leaders think of cloud as shared, public data centers to host workloads...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Three Steps to Make Sure a Strategy is Implemented
By Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School (WBS)
Studies have found that companies use many different methods to devise a strategy and even more ways in...
Joint Venture Of Industry Leaders Enable B2B And B2C Businesses To Digitize And Expand...
The realities of the post-pandemic business world grow more evident by the day. It is impossible to dismiss the impact of technology and automated...
Reshoring and New Globalization: The Future of Supply Chains
By Luigi Gentili
Reshoring is an economic phenomenon that has increased during the pandemic crisis. Many governments and businesses decide to repatriate their production lines...
The Corporate World’s Comeback: Time to Seize the Opportunity
By Anna Saghabalyan and Paul Argenti
Since the start of the COVID Pandemic, the world’s attention was focused on the calculation of two sets of...
AIM for the New Frontiers of Work
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman and Michael Chaskalson
Earlier articles in this series have introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored how the...
The Challenge of Digital Transformation
By Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Jacques Bughin
The typical rationale put forward for failing digital transformation is linked to ill-designed processes, absence of organizational commitment,...
How to Make Sense from and with AI?
By Imène Brigui
As a consequence of Hyperconnectivity, tremendous growth of iOT and mobile technology expansion, data is becoming highly accessible to companies : large,...
Making the Case that Everyone is a Disrupter: A Book Review of ALIEN Thinking
By Kyle Scott
Innovation is the key to success and the essential ingredient for staying ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, modern life does not give us...
When Leadership Drives Innovation: The case of WeLink
By David De Cremer
Ask any executive how they would like the ideal work force to act and many of them would probably say something...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
Data Protection: Lightening the Load of Compliance
Interview with the DPO Centre CEO and Founder Rob Masson
Does compliance with the data protection regulations have to represent a huge and costly burden...
ZeroBounce COO Brian Minick on Getting Better at Email Marketing
Few can doubt the power of email after a year like 2020. It went from being an essential communication tool to the primary channel...
Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way
Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu
In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
Leading in an Age of Disruption
By Hannes Gurzki and Joachim Junghanss
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, few people would have expected the acceleration of digital technology and the new ways...
All You Need To Know About Creative Workflow Management
Creative work is not only exclusive to creative businesses like marketing agencies, graphic design companies, and advertising agencies. Now even relatively “rigid” industries like...
Veins and Wires: Reflections on UrbanTech Transformation
By Dr Mike Cooray, Dr Rikke Duus and Marius Sylvestersen
What kind of urban environment would you like to live in? In this article, we...
Board Membership: Navigating the New Uncertainties
Remember when there was an invisible line separating business from political and social movements? Corporate leaders largely kept quiet about their beliefs and values, trying...
How B2B Marketers Can Stay Customer-Centric
By Mairead Brady, Warwick Business School (WBS)
WBS Core Insights: Future of Work
To adjust to the new post-pandemic normal it is vital that businesses move...
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
Interview With Ewald Raben On Occasion Of 90th Anniversary
This year is the 90th anniversary of Raben Group. Can you think of some things that you did right in the last 20 or...
Breakthrough or Breakdown? Diagnosing chronic stress and risk factors in elite athletes in view...
By Simon L. Dolan and Sara Martinez Espejo
Why are elite athletes more susceptible to stress?
Can sports athletes be prepared to better cope...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
How To Lead With Compassion On The Return To The Office
By David Liddle
Managers are about to face one of the biggest challenges of their careers as organisations start to gear up for a gradual...
The Need To Rethink Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan and Regina Maruca
Accenture’s recent survey of 700 C-suite executives of large businesses in Europe reveals confidence that new global...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Every generation wants to improve on the previous generation; however, this generation risks...
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...
Five Critical Aspects of a Successful Transformation from Matrix to Agile
By Yves Doz and Maria Guadalupe
Created in the 2000s by software developers, the Agile way of working is fast becoming the defining approach across...
Manage the Human Side of Innovation: Tools to Help Your Team Succeed
By Stefano Mastrogiacomo
For companies to keep pace with the current upheavals, good teamwork and thus the relationships between team members are crucial for team...
To Elevate a Brand: Dream, Do and Dare
By JP Kuehlwein and Wolf Schaefer
There are brands that are seen as peerless and priceless. They are able to sustain appeal, a price premium...
Distractions, Decisions and Domesticity: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of WFH
By Adrian Furnham
Whilst the number of teleworkers increased linearly since the beginning of the millennium, it has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the compulsory...
Are You Prepared to Take the Risk?
Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM)
Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...
