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Your Strategy Needs 2 Types of People
By Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter Strategies, when executed to a perfect blend, can even end a World War. This is why organisations and...
Corporate Venturing: How Much to Wait Before Killing an Opportunity? (Breaking Up with a Start-up)
By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Isabel Martinez-Monche, Yair Martinez, and Celeste Saccomano Corporate venturing – the collaborative framework between established corporations and innovative start-ups...
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In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...
Rethinking Future Higher Education
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek “Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.” The world around...
By Paul Strebel Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not...
EPS Formula
The EPS formula is a measure of “rating” as such in the stock market that is very well respected by stocks market traders and...
In recent months, there has been a huge amount of focus on marijuana penny stocks. This is because a large number of them have...
In recent years, interest in electric cars has increased sharply which has led to a greater disruption and democratisation of the entire automotive value...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help. Companies increasingly understand...
By Aliya Vigor-Robertson The return to work after the festive period can leave many employees struggling to get motivated. The excitement of Christmas is over,...
How Luxury Brands can benefit from Personality-based Branding
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...
Design Thinking
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...
Five Pillars of Multidisciplinary Process & Service Design
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,...
Market Similarities and Differences
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...
The Five Paradoxes of Brexit
By David De Cremer Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...
Connected Cities: Driving Digital Transformation in Complex Ecosystems
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...
Interim Dean Laura
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...
Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in Male and Female Leaders’ Use of Humour
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,...
E-cars And The Necessity To Face Diversified Transportation Technologies
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...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World
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...
The Status of Digitalisation in Procurement and Supply Chain Management – Improvement and Disruption
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....
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...