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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...
The Rise and Fall of Supply Systems: From Global to Regional?
By Gilles Paché
The war in Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis whose first economic repercussions, particularly in terms of inflation, were quickly felt in...
The Most Common Forms of Online Payment Fraud and How Merchants Can Combat Them
By Pavels Smirnovs
Online shopping has grown dramatically in popularity and scope over the last decade, with the events of 2020 forcing ever-greater numbers of...
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,...
The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation
By Jacques Bughin
After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
What Do You Need to Know About dropshippingXL?
Dropshipping is a very popular and profitable business model for entrepreneurs. You can open a dropshipping store without having to worry about inventory or...
How have business priorities changed pre- and post-Covid?
By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz
The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK.
In a life before Covid, businesses...
Are You Prepared to Take the Risk?
Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM)
Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...
The Service Revolution, Intelligent Automation and Service Robots
By Jochen Wirtz, Werner H. Kunz and Stefanie Paluch
Are there parallels between the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century and the changes now being wrought on twenty-first-century society...
Managing By Traction (MbT) Reinventing Management in the Cyber-Age
By Mario Raich, Tomasz Krzemiński, Claudio Cisullo, Simon L. Dolan and Bonnie A. Richley
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“We are at a critical turning point in human history! We...
Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and the Future
By David De Cremer
The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...
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The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first
Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
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Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic Highlights the Role of National Cultures
By Bhaskar Pant
The novel coronavirus has affected countries around the globe. It is non-discriminatory in terms of who it hits. It is oblivious to...
Mind How You Grow: A Partnership to Improve Your Processes
Interview with Mr Giuseppe Zagami, the president of Mind The Value
Fast-growing Italy-based company Mind The Value has made a name for itself with its...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
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Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
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...
How Leaders Can Overcome their Biases to Succeed in the Post-Crisis World
By Nikolaus Obwegeser, Noemie Tentillier, and Tomoko Yokoi
Research has shown that our ability to deal with a crisis is heavily dependent on our perception...
How to Manage the Reputation of Your Business during the Pandemic
By William S. Harvey
Reputation is an invaluable intangible asset that impacts on how your staff, customers and other key stakeholders perceive your organisation. This...
What Makes You an Effective Leader in Crisis Situations?
By David De Cremer
For many organizational leaders and entrepreneurs, the coronavirus crisis represents a very challenging environment to lead and motivate their teams.
What do...
Optimising the Supply Chain: The Visible Effect of Elemica’s Digital Supply Network
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Elemica is the industry leader in business to deliver a digital connection between manufacturers and their suppliers, logistics...
Data-driven Decision Making that Uses Data, Mind and Heart
Interview with Heine Krog Iversen, CEO and Founder of TimeXtender
TimeXtender’s mission is to help companies to extract the maximum-possible advantage from their data resources...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain Planning: The Future is Here & Now
By Mark Balte
According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) Digital Economy Model, by 2023 over 50% of all worldwide nominal gross domestic product...
Business Software Solutions from the Can-Do Partner Next Door
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Michał Sztanga, managing director of Polish software developer Future Processing, explains how his company takes “getting...
Making Failure Work
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For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
Transpitality: How Autonomous Driving Technology Will Reshape the Industry Landscape
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There has been increasing attention to self-driving cars, but business is still missing some key insights into how...
Innovation (not) at the core
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A common mistake in industries faced by severe performance pressure is to turn to well-known innovation tools and strategies. Especially in sectors...
Diesel Polluting German Cities: Give us a Brake!
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The German diesel car industry still claims its innocence on the air pollution accusations that have bombarded...
Enhancing value through customer centric supply chain
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In today’s fast-changing marketplace, Allan Dow, President of Logility, knows all too well that a customer centric...
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