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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...
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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...
document management system

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...
AI and humanity

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...
Essential Business Skills

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....
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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....
Voice in the Enterprise

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....
Geospatial AI Revolution

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....
women in leadership

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...
Psychometric Tests

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

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...
remote work tools

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...
retirement planning for business owners

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

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...
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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

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

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

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

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...
HR manager skills

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 – 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,...
neo-populism strategies

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...
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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...
Paul Ingram

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...
AIM Institute

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...
future-ready business strategies

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...
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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

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

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

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

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

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...
Digital Recipe

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...
Circular Economy and Social Enterprise

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

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

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....