All Pulling Together: Smartsheet Ramps up the Team Power
Interview with Sarfraz Ali of Smartsheet
In this interview, Smartsheet EMEA VP and General Manager Sarfraz Ali sets out how, with its revamped UI and...
How European Companies Can Drive Reinvention and Resilience through Generative AI
By Mauro Macchi, Dominic King, and Ladan Davarzani
Europe’s economy shows promise, but stock market turbulence, political uncertainty and war could disrupt it any time....
Unlocking innovation with xTech partners
By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner
When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
Shifting Gears: How European Automakers Can Survive the EV Disruption
By Juergen Reers, Marcello Tamietti, Philipp Kupferschmidt, Stefan Hattula, and Sheryl Yaping Yu
European automakers face growing competition from Chinese and U.S. electric vehicle (EV)...
Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3
By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion
For years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets, reaching over $601 billion globally in...
Rethinking Productivity: The Case for a Four-Day Work Week
By Andrew Barnes
Entrepreneur Andrew Barnes, founder of 4 Day Week Global, discusses the transformative potential of a four-day work week and contends that focusing...
Empathy and Empowerment: Transforming Tech Leadership for Women
Interview with Stacy Bohrer of OpenX
Discover how empathy, mentorship, and creating supportive environments can drive success, foster innovation, and inspire the next generation of...
Adventure Awaits: Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors
In this exclusive interview, we talk with Michael McCreesh, the dynamic Founder and CEO of Taiwan Outdoors. Michael reveals his passion for Taiwan’s diverse...
How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital
By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner
Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer
David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
How to Put Curiosity to Work in Your Organisation
By Louise Muhdi
Companies are starting to understand why it is important to cultivate curiosity among their workforce. Yet, only a few possess a good...
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose
By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa
In the first of a two-part series, we explore how firms are reaping the benefits of leveraging a network...
A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...
By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini
In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom
By Darren Cassidy
Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom explores the parallels between high-performance rugby and successful business leadership. Drawing...
Enterprises Must Establish Algorithmic Governance in Advance of Regulatory Mandates
By Mark Esposito, Aurélie Jean, Terence Tse and Guillaume Sibout
In AI, as in myriad other fields, past and present, technological developments go blazing ahead...
Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations: Should You Go All in?
By Daniel Freeman
AI is becoming smarter and being utilised in our daily lives, whether we realise it or not. You may be wondering at...
Why Strong Technology Leadership Matters to Europe’s Future Competitiveness
The Right Leadership Can Help Bridge Europe's Lag in Technology Adoption, R&D, and Patents
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk, and Surya Mukherjee
Increasing leaders’ technology quotient...
Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform
By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner
To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...
The Art of Future Design — Part II: Deployment, Wholeness, and Impact on...
By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
In this article, we extend the logic that was previously published...
Understanding People: Applying Behavioural Science to Business
Interview with Dr. Tim Mullett, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
In business, understanding your clients, partners, and, perhaps most importantly, your...
Expanding Leadership Capabilities to Fuel the Evolution of Business
Director of MBA programmes at the University of Bath, Dr Donald Lancaster, explores the role of post-experience education in developing people strategies for sustainable...
How Productive Is Generative AI Really?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The...
How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty
By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki
The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
Artificial Intelligence is Exclusive-by-Design
By Hamilton Mann
As humans, it is our responsibility to shape the trajectory of artificial intelligence and use the knowledge of machine learning to...
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values
Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG
Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
Digital Trust is on the Horizon: Interview with Warren Dumanski, Executive VP and General...
In an ideal world, businesses would be able to carry out their digital business transactions safely, securely, ethically and reliably. In short, they need...
ChangeNOW: Where Sustainability Solutions are Found – and Accelerated
Interview with Santiago Lefebvre, Founder and CEO of ChangeNOW
If change for sustainability is to be made a reality, there needs to be a place...
Imagining a Shared Journey into the Future of Work
By Simon L. Dolan, Kristine Marin Kawamura, Mario Raich, and Dave Ulrich
Work enables us to create value for ourselves and others. In our forthcoming...
Cybersecurity: The Future of Passwords and Passwordless – Interview with Michael Crandell, the Chief...
Digital security remains a core concern for businesses, as the scary headlines continue to shriek of stolen and encrypted data, phishing, breaches, and intrusions....
When I Grow up I Want to be a 21st-Century Leader
By Dr. Nina Mohadjer
Leadership is one of the most misused words of our times. Based on my own experiences, I discuss how to move...
Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?
By Adrian Furnham
It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
Chatpocalypse Now: with ChatGPT the Question is Not, “Is this Technology Ready for Us?”...
By Christopher Surdak, JD
The rise of AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants is transforming the way we communicate with businesses and each other, with ChatGPT...
How New Age Entrepreneurs are Changing the Way We Think About Business
By Jessica Wong
Entrepreneurs have always been at the forefront of innovation. Often starting out with limited resources, they made their mark by building businesses...
Layoffs in Tech: Redistribution of Resources Amid a Tech Transformation
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review
For years tech companies have been struggling to find qualified talent, but the tables...
Top Executive Education featuring Antwerp Management School: Opening Minds to Impact the World
Interview with Antwerp Management School's Prof. Dr. Goran Milenković, Academic Director of the EMBA and Prof. Dr. Steffi Weil, Associate Dean for International Outreach...
Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate Resilient Businesses
By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, H. James Wilson, and Giju Mathew
Last summer’s heatwave in the UK and other European countries put a significant...
Accelerating Business Process Optimisation with Machine Learning
By Geetika Tandon and Andrea Jooyeon Huh
While not without a few challenges, “The promise of machine learning is rooted in its ability to identify...
Supply Chain Management – Greater EVA Potential than Any Other Function
Interview with Theodore P. (Ted) Stank, Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee
With the onset of the global pandemic, academic institutions have...
Crisis? What Crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann, and Philippe Roussière
While in practice, it takes time for a tech revolution to unfold, multiple signs show the AI...
The Rise and Fall of Supply Systems: From Global to Regional?
By Gilles Paché
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Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
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It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
How to Create a Successful Global, Online MBA: The Case of ESMT Berlin’s Online...
ESMT Berlin is the only top-10-ranked European business school offering a fully online, global MBA. So what makes their online MBA unique? A talk...
Riversoft Makes the Connection: From Travel Services to Medical Data Via NLP
Since its foundation, Riversoft has been active in many areas of growth, from tourism to technology and the marriage of both. Following our initial...
What’s Next for TravelTech? Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented, and continues to present, enormous challenges across the spectrum of industry, not least for the travel and tourism sector....
Thought Leadership, Frameworks, Tools and Immersion: Interview with Dr Prem Shamdasani of NUS Business...
A tough future in which the only constant is change awaits those who aspire to leadership in the world of business. To prepare these...
Conversational AI is Asking for Ethical Oversight: How Can Humans Best Answer the Call?
By Laetitia Cailleteau and Patrick Connolly
As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it is able to sustain ever more human-like relationships with end users. This...
How Middle Managers Can Make Your Company’s Innovating Engine Hum
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To adapt in a competitive, changing world, every business needs to operate an innovating engine, which requires contributions by employees at...
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But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
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By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
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