The 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits by Dr. Steven MacGregor
How many times have you said that you will change for the better? Dr. Steven MacGegor's 7 Hacks of Highly Effective Habits can be...
The European Economic Outlook and the European Central Bank’s Policy Dilemma
By Chan Kung and Wei Hongxu
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the global economy, the European economy showed a relatively strong recovery in the...
From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives
By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner
As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...
The Spreadsheet Sabotage and its Impact on Supply Chains
By Karin L. Bursa
Although many employees are not properly trained to use them, spreadsheets are used by the a huge number of businesses worldwide...
When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
UK Government propose £4.3 billion investment in Education
In a departure from the thinking that dominated so much of the Cameron-Osbourne years, Boris Johnson has pledged to loosen purse-strings in a bid...
Berkeley Executive Education: Creating A “New Thinking For The New Economy”
Interview with Laura Tyson, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business
Located in the heart of the world’s innovation center, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
By Sherilyn Casiano
In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take to Create Your Digital 2.0 Business...
By Todd Fisher and Richard Lynch A Strategy to Execution planning process focused on Technology Strategy, will raise the TQ (Technology Quotient) of ...
Finding New Products by Vision: Eurodrug Innovates in a Sector Dominated by “Big Pharma”
How does a medium-sized company stand out in a highly concentrated market with rapidly increasing capital requirements? Eurodrug is an international pharmaceutical company active...
How Blockchain Technology and AI can catalyze the economic recovery in 2021
This has been a difficult year to survive and thrive economically. With a drastic rate of rising unemployment and businesses still facing existential threats,...
Royalty-Free Standards vs. Loyalty-Free-Standards: Freedom from royalties, or freedom of choice?
By Eric K. Clemons
Why would you expect good standards to be free? Why does a royalty-free standard often result in a client’s entrapment in...
Clarifying Strategy is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation is Not
By R. Lynch, A. Roman and G. Mac Criosta
A clearly defined and accessible business strategy is crucial to any organisation’s ability to optimally align...
Senior Team Development for the Unwilling
By John Sutherland
Traditional team work over-emphasises the whole team approach far more than is needed for most practical purposes. In this article, John Sutherland...
Enhancing Value Through Customer Centric Supply Chain
An exclusive interview with Allan Dow, President, Logility
In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
Connected Cities: Driving Digital Transformation in Complex Ecosystems
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, and Lasse Bundgaard
Digital technologies are fuelling the evolution of connected cities of the future. Our research in Copenhagen with...
Are Digital Technologies the Planet’s Last Best Hope? (If bananas are anything to go...
By John Bates
Humanity’s destructive ecological footprint is only getting bigger and effective solutions are needed more than ever. Below Dr. John Bates explains...
How will the GBP perform in forex markets while being affected by Brexit and...
From the perspective of a forex trader, you can't beat a period of uncertainty and volatility.
Therefore, 2020 into the new year has been the...
Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope
The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...
Dubai Leads in Start-up Growth and Tech Advancement, Seed Group Review Shows
By Seed Group
Dubai’s tech industry is flourishing and is positioned as the prime sector for start-ups, particularly companies seeking expansion, according to a review...
Wharton: Where Entrepreneurs Learn the Business of Business
Max Baumann’s company Just Chill started with an idea for a beverage that could help people stay cool and calm. “Stress is the number...
The World Business Forum New York
By Henrietta Morris “We have to unlearn what we think we know about leadership.” – Linda Hill This was the message, in this instance boldly stated
Embedding Security in the Internet of Things
By Jim Carlsson
The Internet of Things will mean a better-connected world, with huge possibilities for positive change – and big opportunities for cyber-criminals. Jim...
Smart Specialisation and Economic Opportunity in the South West
By Richard Ball
The city of Exeter is proactively developing its credentials as a true exponent of “smart specialisation”, one of the pillars of the...
Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment
By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
Don’t forget the “real” in Real Estate
By Stefan Wundrak, Director of Research, Property at Henderson Global Investors
Are property investments like businesses?
When thinking about commercial property strategy, you might take the...
What Are the Top Ways to Reduce Crypto Volatility: How to Stabilize the Market?
In the past two years, we have already seen how badly the pandemic has affected the cryptocurrency market, it has not only led to...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World
By Sandra Sieber and Javier Zamora
To be effective in the new world of digital transformation, any organisation needs to address cybersecurity as a continuous...
Ukrainian Reforms: Social Protests as Payoffs for Implementing European Standards
In May 2009, Ukraine became a party to the Eastern Partnership multilateral program, initiated by the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Poland, Carl Bildt...
Future Proofing the Boardroom
By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and...
A Google Software Engineer Believes an AI has Become Sentient. If He’s Right, How...
By Oscar Davis
Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...
The 7 Biggest Global Vacation Rental Trends for Property Owners
Due to the recent COVID-19 health crisis, the vacation rental business has experienced an unprecedented impact. The United States and many other countries have...
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...
What Are the Steps to Economic Recovery in the UK?
Now that the UK is officially in a recession, focus has to be placed on recovery. The government has taken several steps to ensure...
Investor Confidence in 888poker Soars After H1 2020 Financial Results Shared
Investor confidence in 888poker has soared following the announcement of H1 2020 financial results for parent company 888 Holdings, also known as 888.com.
...
Full Electronic Data Integration: How a review of Business-to-Business transactions processes can help save...
By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
Craftsmanship Meets Technology: A Conversation with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen
In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...
NGOs and Millennials – A Blinding Love Affair?
From the Editors
As we start 2017 we look back to 2016 to consider some of the interesting events that will continue or influence the...