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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...
Boost Productivity
By Deborah Sherry Today, businesses are presented with a plethora of opportunities arising from digital transformation. However, not all business leaders know how they can...
By Steven MacGregor With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning....
Designing Results-Oriented Leadership Development Programmes
By Camelia Ilie, Guillermo Cardoza and Schon Beechler In business, one would typically not make a large investment without an idea of how to gauge...
Germany
By Niccolò Pisani and Omar Toulan Whereas facts suggest that German companies are among the best equipped and most active to pursue global growth, they...
Compliance Strategy
By David de Cremer Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...
Waking Up to Data Quality
By Tadhg Nagle, Thomas Redman and, David Sammon Bad data impacts managers and their companies far more than most realise today and presents an enormous...
The Three Types of Big Data That Matter for CMOs
By David Dubois and Gilles Haumont Organisations today have massive amount of data at their disposal. However, not all C-level executives have clear typology of the...
Why Businesses Are Increasing Reliance on Blockchain
Not every company will accept Bitcoin as a potential investment. However, businesses cannot deny the potential of the technology behind the cryptocurrency. Blockchain's tamperproof...
By Steven MacGregor We look at agile ways of working this month, including an excerpt from episode 7 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast with global...
Fashion Brands and Social Media: Counterintuitive Evidence
By Matteo Altobelli Marketing budget has been exponentially going digital. In this article, the author explores the social media platforms being used by 108 fashion...
By Adrian Furnham Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...
industry
By Richard Markoff and Ralf Seifert As the manufacturing industry enters into the fourth industrial revolution or the Industry 4.0, supply chain leaders are challenged...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership
By David De Cremer In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
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...
Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...
By Steven MacGregor I’ve been lucky to have had some great conversations this past week without travelling too far from home. Two days spent with...
fintech
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...
By Megan Reitz and John Higgins The need for transparency has never been more important, both in politics and in business. However, new research from...
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz As the impulse of industry players to stay ahead of the competition skyrockets, how will you drive superior performance...

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