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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....
Social Media Budget
Everybody has ideas to advertise, but some of them are not as successful as you may think. Also, spending lots of money on advertising...
Corporate Venturing: Challenges and Best Practices of Large Firms Innovating with Start-ups
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...
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...
Sound Business: Improving Your Audio ROI
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....
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...
digital twins
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...
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...
Data to the Rescue: Investing in (Female) Employees
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?...
Storytelling Workshops: A Tool for Breakthrough Product Innovation
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,...
How Organisations Can Overcome Conflicting Identity and Reputation
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...
Integrative Intelligence for a Trust-based Worldview for Business
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...
What Governments Need to Understand About Ethical AI
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...
AI and Digital Resources in Fintech
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...
Could You Answer These 3 Questions?
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...
Capturing Data – The Smart Way: Supervised 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...
Bridging Silos: Aligning Innovators with Strategic Leaders
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...
GDPR
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...
Into the wild
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...
Innovation
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 open...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia
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,...
fiu-fi
Having hosted programmes with participants from 16 countries across 4 continents and from more than 200 organisations in the past 10 years, the Center...
IT Leaders Must Collaborate to Thrive in the Face of Disruption
By Duncan Tait With the advancements in technology reaching their peak, we can see how powerful such disruptions are in upending our lives and the...
Working at the upper echelon of the workplace, Lucia Waldner, Head of Credit Suisse Research Institute and Innovation, and the Chief of Staff to...
Leading Effective Insights & Brand Strategy in a Digital World: The 4S Data Framework
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont With the wave of increasing digital footprints in today’s technology-driven business landscape, more and more brands are stepping up...
corporate board diversity
By Stefanie Johnson Unlike the United States, many European countries have seen declines in the percent of white men on corporate boards. The author presents...
board governance challenges
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Richard Nesbitt How impactful can simplexity gap be in corporate boards? In this article, the authors show how such gap undermines...
The Dark Side of Emotional Contagion
By Alexandra Dobra-Kiel Investment banks – and the financial services industry at large – continue to bear the reputational scares of some high-profile ethical scandals....
By Nidhi Prakash In the age of analytics, how would advertisers take full advantage of the growing potential of big data? In this article, the...
Digital Transformation Doesn’t Start With Technology
By Jason Yeomans Digital transformation is often misunderstood, overused or feared, but actually, it is a very suitable title to an easily understood topic. Its...
Actions, Not Words Yes, Working Parents Can Succeed
By Daisy Dowling Organisations of all sizes and types struggle with the “working parent problem”: how to retain, and foster best performance amongst the significant...
Shifting the Gender Gap to an ‘All Differences Matter’ Narrative
By Lianne Taylor CPsychol This article purposefully shifts the narrative that disadvantages female entrepreneurs to a focus on entrepreneurial differences in thinking, traits and behaviour...
High Performing Negotiations in a Team
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta Whether you’re negotiating solo or with a team, it is crucial to have a smart approach to get the...
Ebb and flow
By Steven MacGregor I spent some time with Oracle a few weeks ago, during the kick-off to their new financial year. 150 senior leaders from...
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...
Companies collect tons of data nowadays, but most of them do not yet profit from that treasure. The situation can be compared to the...
Digital Recipe
By Tracey Countryman, David Abood, Aidan Quilligan, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen To produce a successful dish of digital reinvention, start by combining six ingredient...
Blockchain’s Potential Won’t Be Realised Until Many Years From Now
Blockchain research and development has been in full swing since Bitcoin became mainstream. Just last month, blockchain startup Kadena raised $12 million for its...
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...
Becoming the Chairman
By Didier Cossin and Michael Watkins The move from CEO to Chairman is a major role shift. Success requires a set of leadership qualities which...
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...

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