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By Klaus Heine and Haibo Xue Luxury brand management is identity–driven. Drawing on the concept of anthropomorphisation, Klaus Heine and Haibo Xue outline how to...
By Josemaria Siota and Thomas Klueter When properly implemented, design thinking can result in higher success rate for innovation. However, one of our studies states...
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By Lilla Asir Transforming the internal structures of companies by integrating design assets has been seen by many multinational corporations as a challenging process. Crafting...
By Kyle Scott Literature is, by and large, invaluable in one’s understanding of human nature and the world in general. It serves as a gateway...
By Grant Hull I have an interesting vantage point whereby one portion of my professional life I work in the innovation scene with startups and entrepreneurs,...
The trading market mainly consists of options, forex, and the commodity market. Among these three markets, the forex market is the most prominent.  All...
It is one thing to have an idea of a niche you wish to service with an ecommerce company, but it is a whole...
By David De Cremer Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, and Lasse Bundgaard Digital technologies are fuelling the evolution of connected cities of the future. Our research in Copenhagen with...
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Interview with Laura Tyson, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business Located in the heart of the world’s innovation center, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business...
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...
By Joanna Radeke, Alexander Boether, and Alexandre Bezzera Both residents and shareholders enjoy the right returns when real estate companies collaborate and innovate for environmental...
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...
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...
By Christoph Burger, Jens Weinmann, Antony Froggatt, and Catherine Mitchell With the emergence of decentralised energy, such as wind, solar, or biomass, as a major source for power generation,...
By Boris N. Liedtke Customers craved for diversification, and the same is likely to hold true in the replacement of the combustion engine. Boris Liedtke...
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,...
By Wolfgang Lehmacher CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
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...
By Thorsten Makowski, Heidi Gardner, and Hannes Beer Digitalisation is changing procurement and supply chain management. It comes in three stages: cost reduction, value creation...
A glimpse of Oliver Wight EAME's alliance with Ernst & Young LLP   As the supply chain becomes more complex, there is a growing need for...
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...
By Steven MacGregor I’ve fielded several questions from executives in the past few weeks, from Caixabank to Russian Railways, on a recurring and simple topic....
Everybody has ideas to advertise, but some of them are not as successful as you may think. Also, spending lots of money on advertising...
By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Celeste Saccomano Tommaso Canonici  and Xavier Contijoch Innovation in large corporations, particularly the practice of corporate venturing to innovate with start-ups, is...
By Steven P. MacGregor The human heart is the engine room for everything you do. Every beat of that engine, which may beat up to...
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...
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...
By Steve Keller “What does your brand sound like?” The rise of smart speakers and voice interactive technology is forcing brands to answer that question....
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...
By Deborah Sherry Looking at how advanced our world has become, a bridge to the virtual world is no longer an imagination as the concept...
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...
By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...
By Evy Sakellariou, Keith Goffin, and Agnes Mariakaki New product development (NPD) is essential to companies and it is an area where our research shows that...
By Judith L. Walls What kind of leader does it take to make a positive change? What traits set these leaders apart? In this article,...
By William Harvey, Tim Morris and Milena Santos Based on their examination of how an organisation responds when its identity is substantially misaligned with the...
By Sharda Nandram, Puneet Bindlish and Navin Keizer Trust forms the bedrock of any business and can be seen as the fundamental currency of all...
By Josh Entsminger, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Terence Tse, and Danny Goh The increasing application of artificial intelligence across the value chain reflects that such a technological development provides...
By Dr Stéphane J.G. Girod With the fast-changing needs and tastes of today’s consumers, how would luxury brands keep their products relevant and desirable? In...
By Stephan Kudyba This article describes the potential for AI to augment risk estimation for both individual investors and financial market assets. AI processes vast...
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...
I need your help. I’ve been asked to reflect on 3 questions for an interview this week on the Innovation Ecosystem podcast. Founded by anthropologist...
Machine Learning
By Enno Lueckel As AI has gained momentum, software providers have done a leap further to create a cutting edge tool for optimisation. A fine example...
By Dipika Mallya While innovation is a strategic mandate for most organisations today, there is often a disconnect between teams tasked with innovation and other...
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...
By Steven MacGregor “Brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is...
How many times have you said that you will change for the better? Dr. Steven MacGegor's 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits can be...
By Ulrich A.K. Betz , VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck   Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and...
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,...
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Having hosted programmes with participants from 16 countries across 4 continents and from more than 200 organisations in the past 10 years, the Center...