By Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
The emergence of Cloud computing stands out as one of the key technological advances of the last 30...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
By Scott Keller and Colin Price
To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time.
The case for health...
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery in Life
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery In Life, works with ecological gold from the Oro Verde (Green Gold) mining project in Colombia, a...
Claire Arnold is a founding partner of Maxxim Consulting. In this interview, she told us about her management philosophy, visions as well as her...
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
By Robert Chapman Wood, Gerald A. Cory Jr., and Osvald M. Bjelland
Ego and empathy—the two great drivers of business—come from distinct sets of elements...
By Chris Rabb
Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
By Steve New and Dana Brown
In this article we examine a key business question: how much should organizations know about their extended supply base,...
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize
At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
By Annabelle Gawer
A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition
Whether we are talking about Google,...
By John Gattorna
The key to successful supply chain management is recognising that it’s people who really drive the living supply chains that are at...
By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg
Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
By Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...
By Robert H. Bloom
Today, sellers live in a virtual glass houses – they are stripped naked by social media, vulnerable to the attitudes, positive...
(INSCX™)
The nanomaterials industry (NMs) is slowly evolving, from producing a suite of innovative materials in Research and Development (R&D) to laying a basis whereby...
Increasingly, value is created from successful collaboration of stakeholders connected in a network. Therefore outsourcing solutions must capture opportunities and navigate risk across these...
By Claire Arnold, Co Founder of Maxxim Consulting
Everyone who has the ambition, drive and competence to want the top job has to be alive...
Interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich
In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...
By Andreas Tesch
What businesses consider to be an uncollectable debt may not always be as clear cut as is the case when a customer...
By Paul Nunes and Timothy Breene
One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
By Michael Keogh
Property markets globally have recovered from the valuation declines recorded at the height of the financial crisis, but in large part, this...
By David Bartlett, Economic Advisor, RSM International
Solidation prevails in the United Kingdom and other member states.
• The divergent growth paths of developed and emerging...
By Ilan Noy
Natural disasters potentially impact severely on economic dynamics — e.g. on production, prices, incomes, and employment — in the post-disaster period.
Over the...
By Al Weatherhead
I remember going to work six years ago at Weatherchem, my plastic caps and closures company. Before going to my office...
By Evgeny Kaganer, Sandra Sieber and Neil Hair
“What we are looking at is how to build a collaborative platform hooked into business automation software....
An Interview with Keith Goffin
The clear identification of customer needs is a fundamental part of successful innovation and most organizations aim to develop a...
By Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Jill Avery
In response to difficult economic and social realities, firms can successfully both inspire, and increase their appeal...
By Julian Smith
If you have a car with one of these tip-tronic gearboxes, do you know how to use it so as to get...
What are We?
Formally launched in Europe and the United States in October 2010, INSCX™ (the Integrated Nano-Science & Commodity Exchange) is a commodity exchange...
By Dan Hill
For brand-oriented consumers and leaders as well as your average worker, emotions matter. Emotions are central, not peripheral, to both marketplace and...
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
