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We are living in the midst of great change. The impacts of climate change, social issues, and technology...
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....
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
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Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences
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Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
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Future Insight – From a 350th Birthday to the Start of a Global Movement
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Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
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Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
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...
“Electric Has Gone Audi”: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Bram Schot
In recent years, interest in electric cars has increased sharply which has led to a greater disruption and democratisation of the entire automotive value...
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...
The Challenge of Leading Digital Platforms in Responsible Ways
By David De Cremer, Jess Zhang, and Leander De Schutter
Digital platform businesses are increasingly being confronted with a host of unethical consequences due to a lack of...
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...
Insights into the Transformation of Business in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
The rapid and disruptive technological developments are leading us into a global all encompassing transformation....
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...
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Adapting Your Digital Business to a Fragmented World
By Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Armen Ovanessoff
We are aware that this era calls for your business to be able to continuously adapt to...
Smart Manufacturing
By Seeram Ramakrishna, Chen-Khong Tham and Teo Kie Leong
Manufacturing is vital to a country’s economic growth and ability to innovate. Manufacturing is changing from...
Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030
By John Elkington and Richard Roberts
Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...
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,...
How Some Companies Beat the Competition…for Decades and Even Centuries
By: Howard Yu and Jialu Shan
The average lifespan of companies is becoming shorter. For them to survive the competition it is important to learn...
The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe
By Elena Mazzotti and Francesca Caminiti
Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...
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...
Evolving Leadership in the Digital Age
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
To become more effective and reflective leaders, executives need to learn to improve their behavioural reactions to difficult...
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...
Vertical Farming is the Future
Everyone knows that the population of the world is the largest it has ever been. As more and more people are born and grow...
Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace
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Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...
AI is about to revolutionise online financial services — here’s how it could benefit...
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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...
Strategising for the Future
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In this article the authors discuss how organisations can better strategise for the future by integrating and balancing...
The Sleeping Giant: Voice in the Enterprise
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One of the important market disruptions taking place today is the ascent of voice technology....
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The European Business Review caught up with Tony Moretta, the CEO of Digital Jersey. Jersey has just...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World
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To be effective in the new world of digital transformation, any organisation needs to address cybersecurity as a continuous...
Abandon Traditional Marketing and Embrace Digital to Fast-Track Your Success
Digital influencer Vladimer Botsvadze gives his assessment of the emerging trends in the sphere of marketing, notably AI, blockchain and low-code, and offers advice...
Four pathways to ‘Future Ready’ that pay off
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Transformation is not easy but the companies who have reached “Future Ready” have significantly...
Disrupting the disruption: 10 Principles for Digital Success
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These ten principles for success will steer the most digitally ambitious organisations (pure-play or hybrid) safely along on the road to digital...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
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A Partnership for Driving the Future of Business Transformation
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An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True
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Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and...
The Burning Platform of Retail Banking
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Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
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The Chief Innovation Officer Should be in Charge of New Territories. Not More. Not...
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At first glance, it would be surprising to learn that Europe is lagging behind in the field...
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