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By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
Conflict Contagion: A Virus to Watch and Treat Early
By Karsten Jonsen, Karen A. Jehn, Sonja Rispens and Lindred L. Greer
Conflicts are daily realities of organisational teams, and most people are aware of...
The Psychology of Disenchantment
By Adrian Furnham
Justice has always been a major issue among people. Especially in an organisational context, where many employees with different values, interests, and...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
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Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
Creating Collaborative Advantage
By John Sutherland
Successful collaboration between businesses can have myriad advantages. In this article, John Sutherland talks us through four key aspects for successful collaboration...
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...
Opening the Eyes of the Digitally Myopic!
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There are none so blind as those who will not see. They’ll probably go bankrupt too. It has never been easier to...
Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
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...
The Innovator’s Method
By Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer
Innovation is about uncertainty and nonstandard processes, so why is it that management literature and advice still deals...
Making Capabilities Explicit is The Work of Leadership
By Richard Lynch, Amber Román And Derval Kennedy
In “Clarifying Strategy Is Simple. Aligning Your Organisation Is Not.” (The European Business Review, Sept/Oct 2014) the...
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...
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...
The Digital Transformation Opportunities Ahead
By Mike Sutcliff
The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
The End of Competitive Advantage
Interview with Rita McGrath
The European Business Review talks to Forbes’ #6 most influential business thinker, Rita McGrath, about innovation, the end of competitive advantage,...
Leveraging Your Collective Genius
Interview with Linda Hill
Harvard Business School Professor and World Business Forum speaker Linda Hill gives The European Business Review her take on leading innovation.
Linda...
Laying the Foundation
By Damian Goldvarg
While organisations may be becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of a strong coaching culture, translating this into practice is a very...
Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?
By Dan Steinbock
Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Global Brand Power Experiential Positioning of A Brand
By Barbara E. Kahn
Building a strong global brand is all about creating that unique position in the market. Here Barbara E. Kahn illustrates the...
Aargau, Switzerland: Home of Innovation
Welcome to Aargau – the Swiss high-tech canton with a Triple A rating. In Aargau, where the number of people working in R&D is...
Strategic Principles for Competing in the Digital Age
By Martin Hirt and Paul Willmott
Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Below, Martin...
The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
Build High-Quality Connections
By Jane E. Dutton
Jane E. Dutton explains why high-quality connections (HQCs) are critical building blocks for bringing out the best in people and...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
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...
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...
Growth Through Innovation: Innovation Principles for the Technology-Driven Enterprise
By R. Boutellier and M. Heinzen
Technology is the key to our growth, but with it comes many risks. Below, Roman Boutellier and Mareike Heinzen...
Three Traps Facing New Corporate Centre Executives
What Companies Should Consider When Hiring for Corporate Role
By Sven Kunisch & Eva Bilhuber Galli
When appointing corporate centre executives, many large firms focus on...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
Economic Development: It’s About Placemaking
By Richard Ball
As we progress towards a knowledge-based economy, strategies for economic development must increasingly take into account the importance of place. Here, Richard...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
The Internet of things: An Inside Perspective
By R. Richard Asselstine
A data revolution is underway: the Internet of Things is giving a “voice” to billions, even trillions, of objects – connecting...
Multipolar Innovation – and Europe
By Dan Steinbock
Emerging markets are no longer just “world factories.” Led by China, several are turning into global innovation hubs. Below, Dan Steinbock discusses...
A New Synthesis for Business Decision Making: Left Brain, Right Stuff
By Phil Rosenzweig
Business executives do not seem to heed the lessons of decision research, and continue to make strategic decisions without considering common errors....
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
By Sherilyn Casiano
For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
Are High Growth Firms Really About Profit, or Just Greed?
By Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud
Successful and profitable growth firms come from a variety of industries, but many viable business ideas are overlooked by...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
From Great to Gone
By Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski
New consumers demand a new breed of innovations in the products and services they are using. Below, Peter Lorange...
Transforming Procurement to Achieve Competitive Advantage in the Coming Decade
By P. Spiller, N. Reinecke, D. Ungerman & H. Teixeira
In this article, the authors argue that procurement must be transformed to meet the challenges...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience
By Thérèse F. Tierney
As urban populations continue to expand worldwide, natural disasters are precipitating increased challenges to public health, welfare, and safety. Informal methods,...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
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