Unlocking the Internet of Things
By John Bates
Big data is amassing like snow in a blizzard, forming an avalanche that threatens to bury anyone who ignores it. Below, John...
Distinguish Crisis from Disaster: 5 Notes for Making Decisions
By Axelle Bagot and Houman Harouni
One of the most common forms of leadership failure is treating a crisis like it is a disaster, and...
Strategising for the Future
By Joan E. Ricart and Carlos Rey
In this article the authors discuss how organisations can better strategise for the future by integrating and balancing...
Brain Science and the Tasks of the Manager
By Robert Chapman Wood, Gerald A. Cory Jr., and Osvald M. Bjelland
Ego and empathy—the two great drivers of business—come from distinct sets of elements...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
Interview with Jeff Rosenthal
Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
3 Key Organizational Shifts to Bolster Profits, People, and the Planet
By Maria Brinck
Businesses can thrive globally by integrating environmental, social, and governance principles into long-term strategy, demonstrating that responsibility and profitability go hand in...
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...
How to Profit from Reference Marketing in B2B Markets
By Andre Vilares Morgado
Reference marketing plays an important role in business markets. Customer references have a positive impact on vendors’ reputations. It also portrays...
GDPR – Death Knell or a New Life for Customer Analytics?
By Amit Joshi
Even before the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the European Union’s 28 member states, European firms apparently had...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Generative AI
By Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Roussiere and Professor Thierry Rayna
With the game-changing explosion of AI into the commercial world, business leaders have, predictably, focused on the...
Psychological Safety: The Visible Hand of Disruptive Innovation
By Dr Alexandra Dobra-Kiel
In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and unprecedented global challenges, the need for disruptive innovation has never been greater....
The New Normal Of Business In The Age Of Coronavirus
As we’ve experienced during the Covid Pandemic, there’s a need for businesses to adapt to the new “normal” of operations. From stay-at-home orders frequently...
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...
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley
While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many...
Strategic Drivers for the Post-Pandemic Era
By Dr. Alessandro Lanteri
Every day business news cover dozens of new products, technologies, consumer behaviours, and business models that could be critical to the...
Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation
By Yazeed Alhezzani
It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
Beyond Effectiveness: Attractiveness and Unity as Criteria For Decision-Making in Organizations
By Josep M. Rosanas
Management, has to do with people and getting people together as the first priority. Unfortunately, mechanistic models that assume a behavior...
Using Stories to Create Exceptional Performance
By Lior Arussy
Arguably one of the most powerful examples of a performance-defining event for a company was done by a chain-smoking, alcohol-drinking CEO. His...
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...
Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation
By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey
Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...
Economic Shocks and Business Resilience: Exploring the Success Strategies of Nordic Companies in a...
By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen, and Alexandra Selmer
Tough times don´t last, tough people and tough companies do. This statement is exemplified by 206 companies...
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders
By Thomas Baumgartner and Maria Valdivieso de Uster
Achieving growth is enormously challenging in today’s complex and fast-changing business environment. But growth opportunities do exist...
The Art and Science of Generating Insights for Creating More Effective Boards
By Sabine Dembkowski
To be effective, a company needs an effective board. Effectiveness reviews are one way to achieve this, but what insights are needed...
Preparing for Uncertainty: How to use Creaction at Work
By Len Schlesinger and Charles Kiefer
In an excerpt from their book, Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future, the authors Len Schlesinger...
At Your Service: Management with HEART
Interview with Rommel Gonzales
The Bellevue Resort, Bohol, Philippines
“In the hospitality and airline industry, you are not selling rooms, nor selling airline seats. You are...
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...
Magnetic Loyalty: Crafting Effective Loyalty Programmes that Attract and Retain Customers
By Klaus Heine and Vanessa Brunner
Most brand managers today see room for improvement in their repurchase rates, particularly as Generation Z tends to exhibit...
“Delegate to Grow, Deliver Work with Real Impact, Stay Deliberately Profitable:” Eight Creative, Tech...
From an AI-driven creativity crisis, the new junk food ad ban to a possible Omnicom/Interpublic merger, 2024 has been nothing if not challenging. As...
Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige
By Klaus Heine and Francine Espinoza Petersen
Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
What Motivates People To Become A Leader?
By Tina Kiefer, Warwick Business School (WBS)
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”...
A Transformation Manifesto
By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun
Transformation is not about external forces, they are inevitable. It’s not about reorganisations, they don’t work. There are more...
Buying Market Share With Supply Chain
By Richard Markoff and Ralf W. Seifert
In an effort to meet customer demands and gain greater market share, companies offer non-monetary benefits in supply...
How to Future-proof Your Business?
By Jerry Temko
During the past few months, major recruiters have been reporting on the impact that today's choppy economic headwinds are having on the...
Designing A Customer Value-Centric Growth Strategy
By Thales Teixeira
It has been five years since I published the first article on Decoupling theory here in the European Business Review, explaining how,...
The Key Levers for Sales Transformation Success
By Warren Shiver and Michael Perla
For a sales organisation to reach its “ideal transformational advantage” it needs to pull the right levers in...
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...
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True
By Ulrich A.K. Betz, VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck
Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and open...
Going for gold! Five decades of business transformation, Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary
2019 is the year Oliver Wight celebrates its 50th Anniversary as a world-leading business transformation specialist. Founded in 1969, as man first set foot...
How to Better Understand Your Market to Drive Business Growth
By Francis Rodino
If you don’t truly understand your market, you’re shooting in the dark. Successful businesses thrive on market intelligence—knowing exactly who their customers...
The Current Frontier in Industrial Manufacturing: Bringing Software Systems to Market
By Bianca Schmitz, Olaf Plötner, Viktor Jarotschkin and Johannes Habel
Industrial manufacturers increasingly market software systems that help customers optimize value chain processes. However, many...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
Innovation Strategy
By Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias
Many top level executives are still hopelessly behind when it comes to designing an effective innovation strategy in the...
How enterprises can create meaningful purpose together with their stakeholders
By Nicholas Ind and Venkat Ramaswamy
Before the onset of COVID, there was a seeming shift in the idea of why business organizations exist....
Understanding Consumer Touchpoints to Improve Your Business
Running a business can be difficult at times, which is why striving for better should always be at the forefront of everyone’s mind.
This is...
How Can Organisations Manage their Reputations in Response to Threats?
By William S. Harvey, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, and Hongqin Li
In the face of danger, every individual is designed to react almost subconsciously and when...
Aargau – The Swiss High-Tech Canton in Hot Pursuit of Silicon Valley
"Hightech Aargau" is a program of the Aargau government to encourage innovation and growth. With that, the canton of Aargau aims to become the...
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...