Top 5 Benefits of Mobile Learning for Corporations

By Ehsan Memari Let’s face it: if you’re looking for a powerful way to promote learning in the workplace, you just can’t ignore mobile. After...

Open-space Ethics for Co-workers

Open-space offices are fast becoming the norm. For businesses and workers, they offer many advantages: easier communication for collaboration, lower costs, and greater transparency...

How To Design an Ambidextrous Organisation

By Jonathan Trevor and Peter Williamson How can leaders today design and manage their organisation to make it deliver both efficiency and flexibility? The authors...

Empowering Your Leadership at the Pulse of Business in New York City

BUY DIGITAL COPY Interview with Professor Paul Ingram, Faculty Director of Advanced Management Programme from Columbia Business School Executive Education Located in one of the...

Understanding the Potential of AI in a Technology Driven World

BUY DIGITAL COPY Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...

Four pathways to ‘Future Ready’ that pay off

By Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner and Nick van der Meulen Transformation is not easy but the companies who have reached “Future Ready” have significantly...

Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan

By Ginka Toegel Ikigai– in Japanese it means, loosely, “what makes life worth living.” If reforms by the Shinzō Abe government succeed, it may one day...

Digital Twins: How Big is the Opportunity for Industrial Organisations?

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...

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...

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,...

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....

Mining Actionable Information with Smart Capture: INTERVIEW WITH ENNO LUECKEL, EPHESOFT

Companies collect tons of data nowadays, but most of them do not yet profit from that treasure. The situation can be compared to the...

Are You Following the Right 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...

Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth

What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...

Savvy and Skillful: A New Look at Office Politics

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...

The Challenge of Leading Digital Platforms in Responsible Ways

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...

Leading by example

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...

Bridging the Circular Economy and Social Enterprise: The Dutch Ministry of Defence...

By Khaled Soufani, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, Giorgos Dimitriou and Panayotis Kikiras A holistic approach to circular economy is the one that merges the mission-driven...

Safeguarding your Brand through Better Supply Chain Visibility

By Ben Wilde Better supply chain visibility is what you need to safeguard your brand. Trends ranging from globalisation and social media to rising...

Insights into the Transformation of Business in the Cyber-Age

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo The rapid and disruptive technological developments are leading us into a global all encompassing transformation....

The ROI of Wellbeing

By Steven P. MacGregor I was teaching Masters students at IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology this week. Teaching wellbeing at work to an...

What Really Matters to Gen Z? Workplace Tech or the Team Around them?

By Tony Bailey As students get their A-level results and graduate from university this summer, a new tranche of young people will enter the workforce....

Supply Chain Digitalisation Management Challenge

By Richard Markoff and Ralf seifert As part of the broader Industry 4.0 trend, the digitalisation of supply chains is happening quickly. Much of the...

The Competitive Advantages of the Digital Economy Require a Digital Mentality

By Michael Gravier, Christopher Roethlein, and John Visich In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, supply chain leaders are being challenged by the profound effects of...

How Will 5G Internet Change the World?

By Andrew Chakhoyan When Estonia is contemplating a launch of its own digital currency (Estcoin), Deutsche Telekom is running pilots on a 5G connection,...

Overcoming the Illusion of Email Overwhelm

By Joe Beccalori One of the most dreaded activities that executives have got to face is treading through an overwhelming amount of electronic messages. In...

The Rise Of The Imagination Economy

By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes and Suning An The physical constraints of distance and geography shape how we live, work, produce and consume. But advances...

How To Catch A Moving Target in the Digital World

By Stijn Viaene In this article, Prof. Stijn Viaene continues to shed light on the realities that executives and business leaders must face in the...

Post Global, Going to a “Local-to-Local” Approach. Sometimes.

By Francesco Stefanelli Today’s companies are global in nature and for many, this translates into a dynamic environment for designing their Supply Chains, in order...

The Role of Ethical Values in Economic Value Creation

By S. Ramakrishna Velamuri and William Harvey Values integration in businesses keeps the highly competitive world humane. In this article, the authors elaborate not only...

Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030

By John Elkington and Richard Roberts Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...

Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver

By Jonathan Trevor Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...

Digitalisation: The Pharmakon of Open Organisations

By Albert Meige The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise – the same entity we are familiar with today.1...

Are We in Good Shape for a Digital Transformation?

By Anand Swaminathan & Jürgen Meffert Innovation cycles run ever faster – with each of us experiencing ever more discontinuity. Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert,...

GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?

By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...

Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...

Habit Hacking (Part II)

By Steven MacGregor How many times have you said that you will change for the better? In this Part Two of the article, the author...

Will The Robots Save Company Culture?

By Simone Sneed-McGurl Over the past 25 years we have seen a rapid proliferation of workplace technology, automation and artificial intelligence. The evolution of the...

The Happiness Conundrum

By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries Based on a case example of a deeply unhappy person, this article examines the elusive topic of happiness,...

Right to be Disconnected – The Wave to Catch On

By Jasna Čošabić This paper analyses the possible influence of the French labour law reform - the “right to be disconnected” – on other countries...

The Five Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management

By David G. Collings and John McMackin In this article the authors present the five issues that any organisation must tackle in order to design...

What A Leader Should Know About Sleep

By John Axelsson & Tina Sundelin In this article, the authors lift the lid on the pitfalls of a lack of adequate sleep – in...

Business as Usual?

By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Lisa Xiong “We are running out of water.”(Famiglietti (NASA), 2015)1 The constantly evolving world we live in continues to pose...

Beyond the Hateful 8

By Steven P. MacGregor Steven MacGregor elaborates on how today’s world has turned Robert Owen’s “Triple 8” to the “Hateful 8”. How should business leaders...

Space, But Not as We Know It: Notes on the Future Workplace

By Steven P. MacGregor Apple Park opens in a few weeks time. The new headquarters of one of the world’s most innovative companies, referred to...

Smart Manufacturing

By Seeram Ramakrishna, Chen-Khong Tham and Teo Kie Leong Manufacturing is vital to a country’s economic growth and ability to innovate. Manufacturing is changing from...

Crossing Cultural Barriers to Achieve Superior Team Results

Interview with Bhaskar Pant Executive Director, MIT Professional Education Culturally diverse teams produce more creative, innovative group results, compared to those in more culturally homogenous groups....

This Too Shall Pass Change is Not Only Necessary, It’s Inevitable

By Christopher Surdak If one word was used to describe the year we have just lived through my choice would be “change”. For most businesses,...

Organisational Identity as the Touchstone for Strategic Decision Making

By John C. Camillus A firm’s Identity – its core values, enduring aspirations and distinctive competencies – is intended to guide management’s decision making. This...

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