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...

Future Work: Changes, Choices & Consequences

By Jonathan Trevor Despite enabling widespread automation of routine tasks, mechanical technologies have created many more job opportunities than they have replaced in our Industrial...

Creating Effective Organisational Systems through Experimenting with Human Nature

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao If organisations are serious in building cultures that can translate the desire to create joint value into a...

What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales

By Frank Cespedes Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior...

Creating a One-Company Culture: Internal Strategy for External Success

By Paul Argenti In the last century, large corporations have expanded in size, reach, and complexity. To keep employees aligned strategically, management must dedicate resources...

Aargau – Scope for Life Sciences Innovations

For many years, Switzerland has been one of the most innovative and competitive business locations in Europe, as demonstrated by various rankings such as...

The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS

By Sherilyn Casiano To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....

Successful Digital Transformation Starts with the Customer

By Joerg Niessing Running a business in this digital era is truly challenging. And in light of this, Joerg Niessing shares the three chief takeaways...

The Building Blocks of Digital Transformation: Intelligence, Integration and Impact

By David Dubois Leading an organisation’s digital transformation simultaneously entails driving change within three key pillars of one’s business: intelligence (competitive insights); integration (organisational structure...

Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?

By Mark Skilton The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...

Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...

By Christopher Surdak Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...

Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value

By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...

Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival

By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...

Industry 4.0: How Businesses in Aargau are Mastering Technological Change

Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...

Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...

How Organisations Can Embrace Automation By Leslie Willcocks In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...

Counterwork Behaviours

By Adrian Furnham Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...

Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 1: Reasons and Reality

By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado In Part One of this article we will address a number of issues related to mergers. First, we will...

Change Capability Building

By David Miller and Audra Proctor The volume and complexity of change that organizations are facing continues to increase, and they cannot risk the negative...

Collaborative Innovation as Ultimate Driver of Growth

By Mark Esposito and Terence Tse Entrepreneurship is the key to economic growth, and right now, Europe’s economy difficulties need solutions. This article discusses the...

The Rationality of Risk, Part 2: Avoiding Risk, Keeping Busy, and Resorting with...

By Christopher Surdak, JD In part two of the series on the Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak provides an overview of some of the avoidance...

Impact of Digital on How We Implement Change

By Audra Proctor No one doubts the effectiveness of face-to-face workshops for organisational change implementation. But the practicality of things, such as, availability, time, expense...

Sharing Business Ownership to Execute Your Strategy

By Felix Barber and Michael Goold Co-owners sharing business rewards do not need to take on the same mix of responsibilities; instead, to create more...

Why The Circular Economy Matters

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...

What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper

By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...

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