By Alessandro Di Fiore, Jonas Vetter and Joachim von Heimburg
Today, innovation is not limited to products, but includes business models. Boards can play a...
By Christopher Surdak
Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...
By Yao Zhao
Reconciling an empirical study1 of 787 delays with an economic analysis of financial incentives, we reveal a subtle incentive trap in the risk...
Decision Making
Have We Lost the Ability to Listen to Bad News?
Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Kishore Sengupta & Henk Akkermans
Ethics
Values, Values...
By Stephen Gibbs
Donald Trump’s image as a street fighter offering a voice to the disenfranchised propelled him to victory in the US election....
By Barbara Kellerman
Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...
By Howard Schweitzer
Applying business concepts to government is not a fantasy. With the right leader, a heavy dose of patience and good ideas, government...
By Steven P. MacGregor
I was watching through a crack in my fingers. And there it was, inevitable really. Number seven. My football team, Glasgow...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...
By Steven P. MacGregor
Last week I was teaching on a new “Executive Program” for Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica at their Corporate University north of...
By Frank Cespedes
Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior...
By Paul Argenti
In the last century, large corporations have expanded in size, reach, and complexity. To keep employees aligned strategically, management must dedicate resources...
By John Sutherland
You cannot build successful transformation in a hurry. The best transformation projects are slow-cooked, not microwaved. In this article, John Sutherland introduces...
For many years, Switzerland has been one of the most innovative and competitive business locations in Europe, as demonstrated by various rankings such as...
By Douglas Ready
Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation has proven to be troubling – well-regarded consultancies’ research can back this up. In this article, Doug Ready discusses...
By Joy Tan
The Internet of Things is just one of the technologies that is re-shaping the world. It is not only perceived as a...
By Sherilyn Casiano
To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....
By Joerg Niessing
Running a business in this digital era is truly challenging. And in light of this, Joerg Niessing shares the three chief takeaways...
By David Dubois
Leading an organisation’s digital transformation simultaneously entails driving change within three key pillars of one’s business: intelligence (competitive insights); integration (organisational structure...
By Douglas Davis
Creatives get various demands and design requests from clients, but there’s this exact same request hidden in all of it: “Solve my...
By Lionel Wee and Ann Brooks
This article critiques the idea of personal branding – from pointing out how it is currently popularised and relied...
By Nicolai Foss & Tina Saebi
Although proven that innovating a company’s business model can significantly increase performance, a majority of companies fail to do...
From the Editors
Europe is in the grips of anti-immigrant sentiments aimed mostly against their Muslim citizens and new émigrés. One wonders what would happen...
By David G. Collings
David G. Collings outlines key factors which can effectively develop global talent management systems to drive sustainable performance based on his...
By Steven P. MacGregor
For most of Europe, especially those engaged in academic pursuits, September marks the beginning of a new year. After the traditional...
M&A
Why has Microsoft Paid US$26 Billion for Business Networking Platform LinkedIn?
Mark Skilton
Management
What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales
Frank Cespedes
Creating a One-Company Culture: Internal Strategy...
By David De Cremer
Adopting CSR as a company philosophy in China seems to be more challenging than could be expected. In this article, David...
By Christopher Surdak
Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...
By Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson
A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting established businesses by the process of “decoupling”. In this article,...
By Matthias Holweg, Kai Hoberg, Frits K. Pil, Jakob Heinen
Companies struggle to define the value proposition 3D printing brings: While the opportunities for...
By Carlos Cordón and Teresa Ferreiro
Traditional businesses know that if they want to survive the digital revolution, they need to make changes, but where...
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...
By Eric Siegel
The NSA can leverage bulk data collection with predictive analytics to target law enforcement activities. But this little-known capability both intensifies and...
By Jim Dewald
Jim Dewald discusses the processes towards corporate entrepreneurship which are needed for organisations to achieve longevity and success in the evolving market.
I...
By Jim Macnamara
Research shows that most businesses are jumping on the social media bandwagon. But many are not using social media effectively or wisely,...
By Chris Outram
These ten principles for success will steer the most digitally ambitious organisations (pure-play or hybrid) safely along on the road to digital...
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse & Khaled Soufani
In this article, the authors discuss China’s implementation of Circular Economic development programs in order to address...
By Urs Müller and Ulf Schäfer
This article presents some of the most influential drivers of unethical behaviour in business and suggests counter-strategies. Reviewing the...
By Wilfried Vanhonacker
How far is too far in gleaning user data and handing this over to advertisers, even though the aim is to continue...
By Mark Skilton
The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...
By Christopher Surdak
Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...
Technology
Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to Deal with Our Biggest Business Challenge: Us
Christopher Surdak
Digital Business
The Digital...
From the Editors
The United Kingdom woke up on Friday 23 June to new realities: the Kingdom was no longer ‘united’ and its constituent parts...
By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
By Johannes Habel
Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...