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Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
5 Must-Have Laptop Accessories in 2019
If you have recently bought a new laptop, then you might consider purchasing some essential accessories before you start taking it out. Having useful...
Our Guide To Making A Great First Impression With Your Office Design
Making a great first impression is crucial when working with clients, but it could also help boost the morale of employees and encourage applicants...
Changing Perceptions: The Island of Jersey Brings Digital Ideas to Success
Interview with Tony Moretta, CEO of Digital Jersey
The European Business Review caught up with Tony Moretta, the CEO of Digital Jersey. Jersey has just...
Things To Consider When Purchasing A Document Management System
Document Management Systems (DMS) are software to help businesses manage, store, and track digital files like documents and images. These files might be from...
Will the Machines Really Make Us More Human?
By Steven P. MacGregor
Learning another language isn’t an easy thing to do (and I’m very aware how lucky I am being a native English speaker)....
Moving Forward with ERM Advanced Telematics and The Future of Transportation
An Interview with Mr. Eitan Kirshenboim, CMO, ERM Advanced Telematics
Innovations in telematics and autonomous technology are continuously shaping the world for the better. We...
What are the Essential Business Skills and How to Improve Them?
Starting your career in a business organisation or opening your own business requires much more than hard work, patience, and expertise in your field....
Beyond Collaborative Intelligence we can see a Meta-Mind Society Surfacing and we can Dream...
Facts, Fads and predictions about the joint venture of Human Mind and AI algorithms
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Claudio Cisullo and Bonnie A....
The Sleeping Giant: Voice in the Enterprise
By Laurence Minsky, Eric Turkington, Colleen Fahey and Will Hall
One of the important market disruptions taking place today is the ascent of voice technology....
Three Trends Driving the Geospatial AI Revolution
Geospatial AI, the intersection of geospatial data and artificial intelligence, is the new frontier of technological innovation that promises to transform entire business industries....
Custom-built Programmes for the Future Workforce
Interview with Professor Ann Bartel, A Faculty Director of Custom Programmes at Columbia Business School Executive Education
Being one of the Top Executive Education Programmes...
Current Development in Psychometric Tests
By Adrian Furnham
Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...
Soft Leadership for Millennials
By M.S. Rao
The purpose of this article is to explore soft leadership to meet the rising expectations of the millennials globally. It unfolds the...
The Right Tools for Remote Work
It is no secret that a rapidly increasing number of companies are offering remote job opportunities. But what you might not know is that...
Effective Leadership: 9 Ways to Support Your Team
Behind every great business are a great team of leaders, who endeavor every working day to motivate, encourage, and support their talented employees.
If your...
Planning for Your Own Retirement as a Business Owner
Retirement is the carrot at the end of an incredibly long race that all small business owners are on, whether they like it or...
How Remote Small Businesses Should Set Up Their Phone Systems
For quite some time now, modern employees have not been required to work in an office. This shift to a mobile work environment is...
Deep Engagement: Where Thought Leadership and Subject Expertise Meet
Interview with Dr. Kishore Sengupta, Cambridge Judge Business School Director of Executive Education
Since its establishment in 1990, Cambridge Judge Business School has always been a...
How Some Companies Beat the Competition…for Decades and Even Centuries
By Howard Yu and Jialu Shan
The average lifespan of companies is becoming shorter. For them to survive the competition it is important to learn...
Who Owns Wellbeing? Reflections from Heineken
By Steven P. MacGregor
“A company has someone to look after money, strategy, and marketing etc. But soon there will be another title. A Chief Wellbeing...
Enter the Industry 4.0 Era Today by Using “Dark Data” You Already Have
By Gregory Gimpel and Allan Alter
The Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT), also known as Industry 4.0, provides new opportunities to harness data-driven insights to improve business...
Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise
By Mostafa Sayyadi
There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately, the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In...
Amazingly Good Sales Pitch Examples
Let’s face it — selling is hard work. Convincing a prospective buyer to trust you and consider your offer can be extremely difficult. It’s...
The Best HR Managers Should have these Skills
The world of human resources is constantly changing, in line with wider trends in the labour market. So, whilst more Brits are in employment...
Corporate Social Responsibility – Does Sustainability Come into it?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) means businesses operate in a way that benefits both society and the environment at large. Some debate that business sustainability,...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
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
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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
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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....

















































