Strategic Spotlight

This category is Strategic Spotlight, highlighting key business strategies, industry innovations, and leadership insights. It features expert perspectives on decision-making, competitive advantage, and transformative approaches shaping the future of business and management.

TimeXtender Helps European Companies from Numerous Industries Manage Their Data

Managing corporate data is mission critical for any company or organization and for good reason. When having an abundance of high-quality data and instantaneous...
Designing a Customer-centric Growth Strategy

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,...
Innovation

The Four Ways of Organizing Innovation

By Christoph Burger, Christoph Räthke, Bianca Schmitz and Jens Weinmann How have innovation practices changed in the last years? We conducted around 20 semi-structured interviews...
The issues that shape strategy

The Issues That Shape Strategy

By Leonardo Meeus Companies do not only compete in markets; they also compete on social and political issues. Depending on the business opportunities or threats...
Values in Organisations

Internalising Values in Organisations

By William S. Harvey, Sharina Osman and Marwa E.A. Tourky We read a lot about the importance of organisations being led by their values, but...
ESG

Developing a Strategy for Managing Non-Financial Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risks and Opportunities

By Tim Bovy, Ian Hodges, and David Ryan In Business, everything flows from strategy. Strategy requires that organisations prepare detailed assessments of risks and opportunities,...
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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...
Retail Growth Strategie

Retail Growth Strategies: Surviving COVID-19

By Omar Toulan and Niccolò Pisani The economic turbulence spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the retail sector. On...
Stakeholders

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....
Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation

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...

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...

From boring to breathtaking – Putting together an impeccable business presentation

If there is one thing that all of those who speak in front of an audience should thrive at, that is getting the public’s...

Organisational difficulties in producing thought leadership

By William S. Harvey, Vincent Mitchell, Alessandra Almeida Jones and Eric Knight Over the past several decades, thought leadership has moved from being individual gurus...

Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration

By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...

B2B eCommerce and COVID-19: 6 Challenges and Solutions for 2021

As 2021 approaches, and as the economy adjusts to new realities, the outlook for B2Bs looks promising. B2B buyers have radically changed their opinion about...

5 Keys to Resolving Cross-Functional Rivalries in your Digital Transformation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Nigel Stacey, Raghav Narsalay, Aarohi Sen, and Paul Barbagallo The challenge is as old as business itself: How do you get people...

How Business Should Protect Intellectual Property

The age of technology and exchange of information in the digital domain have made our daily lives easier, but also brought numerous new challenges...

Being Prepared for Surprises to Happen: Huawei as a Black Swan?

By David De Cremer In life, it’s always possible that things change in the blink of an eye. One day everything is as it has...

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...

Reasons Why a Business Plan is Key to Success

A business plan is a fundamental part of your overall business strategy. You must have one, should you want your business to prosper and...

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...

A Wake-up Call for the Corporate World

By Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt, Catherine Mitchell, and Jens Weinmann New regulations and opportunities in the decentralized energy market can be good for the planet...

DVC Framework: Accelerating Digital Value Creation

By Dr Mike Cooray and Dr Rikke Duus In this article, we present the Digital Value Creation (DVC) framework. The DVC framework can be used...
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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...
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Why Location Matters in Business

In spite of today’s digital climate and the fact that remote working is on the rise, geographical location still plays an integral role in...
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The 3 Myths of Employee Autonomy

By Carsten Lund Pedersen Employee autonomy is becoming one of the latest trends in business management with many industries failing to implement and benefit from...
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Six Lessons I Learned About Innovation

By Terrence Hahn In today’s society, it is hard to conceptualise innovation without the context of technology. It is imperative to understand the technological shift...
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“Managing by Values” (MBV): Innovative tools for successful micro behavioural conduct

By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan “Values values on the wall, just do the business and forget them all” wrote Liran and Dolan (2016)1...

Leading an Upstart Victory: Fateful Decisions That Carried a Mid-Ranking American Football Team...

By Jeffrey Klein and Michael Useem One of the most momentous decisions is picking the right person to lead the team all the way to...

A Lesson In Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating With Kidnappers

By Kandarp Mehta and Guido Stein This article is a case analysis based on real events. The case analyses how a young British man who...

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...

TRIP Framework: Re-Thinking Organisational Competitiveness in Digital Spheres

By Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus Across industries, organisations are in search of new ways to enhance their competitiveness in the midst of digital disruption...

Scaling Agility: The Fuel that Drives the Organisation’s Digital Transformation

Interview with Professor Stijn Viaene In today’s rapidly-changing corporate world, it’s imperative for businesses and organisations to respond and adapt more quickly than ever before....

Knowledge Management: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practise

By Mostafa Sayyadi There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately, the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In...

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...

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...

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...

What are the challenges facing e-commerce today and their solutions?

Over the past 10-15 years, electronic trading platforms have emerged in the depths of large enterprises as a system of resource allocation between departments....

How to Future-proof Your Business

We are living in a time that’s both exciting and scary for businesses across the globe. This is because on one hand, businesses have...
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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...

Reach your Goals Faster with these 4 Powerful Progress Tracking Tools

Whether you’re planning out your career or taking a project from start to finish, you’ll reach your goals faster if you track progress. Biologically, human...

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...

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...

Four pathways to ‘Future Ready’ that pay off

By Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner and Nick van der Meulen Transformation is not easy but the companies who have reached “Future Ready” have significantly...

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...
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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...

Market similarities and differences

The trading market mainly consists of options, forex, and the commodity market. Among these three markets, the forex market is the most prominent.  All...

Tailoring the Strategy Function for Success

By Jo Whitehead, Felix Barber and Rebecca Homkes Enterprises face a host of challenges today, including digital disruption and changing global trade patterns. In such...

Sound Business: Improving Your Audio ROI

By Steve Keller “What does your brand sound like?” The rise of smart speakers and voice interactive technology is forcing brands to answer that question....

How Organisations Can Overcome Conflicting Identity and Reputation

By William Harvey, Tim Morris and Milena Santos Based on their examination of how an organisation responds when its identity is substantially misaligned with the...

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AI Search Revolutionises Brand Discovery – Here’s How to Get Noticed

By Claire Snook In 2025, AI-powered search is poised to become the foundation of how brands connect with their customers. Advances like ChatGPT, SearchGPT, as well as the strategic pivot from traditional search engines toward...
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The Lawbreaker: How Deliberate Rule-Breaking Drives Innovation 

By Doug Hall  Transformational ideas require a leap of faith. They require you to break free of your “adultness” to allow your mind to run free and unconstrained. This article presents one of the most...

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