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Vertical Farming is the Future
Everyone knows that the population of the world is the largest it has ever been. As more and more people are born and grow...
How the Next Wave of Innovators will Change the Fabric of the World
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier and Vedrana Savic
The next wave of innovation will see products and services combining technology from across the digital, physical and biological...
Get Ready for Disruption: WBS Prepares Executives for a Volatile Future
Interview with Tim Wray Director of Executive Education Warwick Business School
We live in turbulent times, and business leaders need to draw on a range...
The Cyber-Organisation and the New World of Work: Advocating a twin governance...
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
This paper explores the concept of the cyber-organisation and, in particular, the so-called cyber-enterprise...
4 Ways Your Small Business Can Attract Big Talent
Your business will fail without the right employees. Every boss knows this. From market stalls to megacorporations. The most gifted job-searchers can take their...
How to Use Your Eco-friendly Approach as a Selling Point
As the market for eco-friendly and sustainable consumer goods grows and marketing campaigns emblazoned with environmentally conscious messages begin to reign mainstream advertising, what...
Intern Success Stories at Zalando
Internships play an important role in the life of many young adults, helping them integrate into the employment world while learning skills on the...
Hybrid Strategies and the New Face of Retail
By Omar Toulan and Niccolò Pisani
How has the digital disruption affected the way customers shop and the factors that influence their decisions? One need...
The Top 10 Young Leaders Of Europe Poised To Transform The World
By Paula Hass and Valentina Loiz
The future of Europe depends on the ideas, ambition and determination of young people. The young achievers on this...
Optimising the Supply Chain: The Visible Effect of Elemica’s Digital Supply Network
Interview with Rich Katz, CEO of Elemica
Elemica is the industry leader in business to deliver a digital connection between manufacturers and their suppliers, logistics...
The Rise of the Hospitality Manager
Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
New demands are emerging in...
Taming complexity with intelligence: a movement to help businesses along the SAP S/4HANA...
Interview with Mr. Bjoern Braemer, SVP & Global Head of the SAP S/4HANA Movement
SAP S/4HANA is the digital core that is enabling organisations around...
Top 7 Most Environmentally-Friendly Countries in The World
According to the UN, the number of microplastics found in the seas reached 51 trillion – this is 500 times more than the number...
3-steps to Commercialising Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries
By Gene Shill
The value of intangible goods is making an unprecedented contribution to the global economy as the world becomes progressively digitised, with many...
What is a CxO? And How Many Types Are There?
A CEO is the head of the company, a COO manages daily operations, and a CFO heads the finance department. But what does a...
Proven Ways to Boost Post Holiday Sales
During holidays, most stores reap big as shoppers purchase different things to make their holidays enjoyable. However, sales may diminish after the holiday spending...
The Coming Food Industry Revolution: You can have your cake with wine and...
By Kevin Parker and Boris Liedtke
Balancing food supply and demand in a manner that has a positive environmental impact and ensures a healthier life...
Serving valued banking relationships generation after generation
Aside from having the second largest banking sector in the Eastern Caribbean region, Antigua and Barbuda also houses the “grandfather” of international financial services...
3 European startups fight against climate change
The ultimate buzzword for sustainability and humanity is climate change. It’s proliferated in the speech of many politicians. Nevertheless, climate change isn’t just a...
Sovcombank becomes a Founding Signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Banking
Sovcombank becomes the first Russian bank to become a Founding Signatory of the UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking, committing to strategically align its...
Investors hesitate as China warning signs emerge
The global economy is like a funfair rollercoaster. It has relentless ups and downs, frightening twists and turns, and it can even make some...
American’s most sustainable cities in 2019
The sustainability of a city is defined by a number of factors which vary from one authority and/or regulatory body to the next. Texas...
All About JCU’s Online Courses
James Cook University was founded in 1961 and is situated in Townsville. Cairns and Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university of Queensland.
The university...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
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...
Software AG: Touching the Lives of Millions for Half a Century!
There is a software company that does things differently; not clamouring to be the latest headline, but quietly running the world with precision for 50 years...
Understanding the Potential of AI in a Technology Driven World
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Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...
Lessons from Ellen MacArthur and the Circular Economy on How Leaders can Build...
By Peter Hopkinson and William S. Harvey
The growth of interest in the circular economy has been meteoric with new initiatives emerging weekly. A...
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...
Rethinking Future Higher Education
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Paweł Rowinski, Claudio Cisullo, Courtney Abraham and Jan Klimek
“Education is a sustainable way for cultural change and transformation.”
The world around...
“Electric Has Gone Audi”: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Bram Schot
In recent years, interest in electric cars has increased sharply which has led to a greater disruption and democratisation of the entire automotive value...
The Five Essential Pillars of Multidisciplinary Process/Service Design
By Lilla Asir
Transforming the internal structures of companies by integrating design assets has been seen by many multinational corporations as a challenging process. Crafting...
Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
The Cybersecurity Challenge in a High Digital Density World
By Sandra Sieber and Javier Zamora
To be effective in the new world of digital transformation, any organisation needs to address cybersecurity as a continuous...
The Status of Digitalisation in Procurement and Supply Chain Management – Improvement and Disruption
By Thorsten Makowski, Heidi Gardner, and Hannes Beer
Digitalisation is changing procurement and supply chain management. It comes in three stages: cost reduction, value creation...
Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees
By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut
Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...
Creating an Agile Board of Directors
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz
As the impulse of industry players to stay ahead of the competition skyrockets, how will you drive superior performance...
Bridging the Circular Economy and Social Enterprise: The Dutch Ministry of Defence...
by Khaled Soufani, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, Giorgos Dimitriou and Panayotis Kikiras
A holistic approach to circular economy is the one that merges the mission-driven...
Safeguarding your Brand through Better Supply Chain Visibility
By Ben Wilde
Better supply chain visibility is what you need to safeguard your brand. Trends ranging from globalisation and social media to rising...
Turning Societal Challenges into Business through Value Sharing
By Simona Rocchi, Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh, Karthik Subbaraman, Luc de Clerck and Reon Brand
How do brands stay meaningful and relevant in the 21st...
The Joyous Republic of giffgaff
By Steven P. MacGregor
The Minister for Development arrives at the office by bicycle, and gets straight to work. Meeting the other ministries is first...
The Competitive Advantages of the Digital Economy Require a Digital Mentality
By Michael Gravier, Christopher Roethlein, and John Visich
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, supply chain leaders are being challenged by the profound effects of...
Tolerating Failure: A Key to Creating Sustainable Business
By CB Bhattacharya, Ernesto Ciorra and Joanna Radeke
Best-in-class companies galvanise their workforces to serve a larger purpose – creating a better world. They empower...
Is Your Supply Chain Sustainable? Probably Not
By Cory Searcy
A growing number of companies are working to develop sustainable supply chains. A key challenge is to align their supply chain...
Biochemistry 101
By Steven MacGregor
I’ve been lucky enough to teach executives from companies including Oracle, Telefónica, Chevron Philips and Banco Santander the past few weeks in a...
A Conversation with Ann Pickering, Director of Human Resources at O2
By Steven MacGregor
We continue our global influencers series this month in conversation with Ann Pickering. This was a recorded interview that you can listen to...
What You Need to Know About Supply Chain Disclosure
By Lucy McCarthy, Paul McGrath, and Donna Marshall
Our study examined twenty multinational companies and their supply chain disclosure decisions. We found a number of...
Chief Wellbeing Officer
By Steven MacGregor
This month we include an excerpt from Steven MacGregor’s new book, Chief Wellbeing Officer: Leading in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Rory...
A Conversation with Roberto Di Bernardini, Global Head of HR at Banco Santander
By Steven MacGregor
Returning to our series of interviews with global influencers we talk to Roberto Di Bernardini, who after almost a decade of HR leadership...
Design For Wellbeing
By Steven MacGregor
Health and wellbeing in the professional domain continue to garner increased attention. In this article, the author wraps up the year through...
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Brain-Machine Synchrony: A New Era of AI-Supported Human Collaboration and Societal Transformation
By Hamilton Mann, Cornelia Walther, and Michael Platt
This paper introduces the concept of “brain-machine synchrony,” exploring the potential alignment of human brain waves and physiological responses with AI systems to build trust and enhance collaboration....
Six Ways Companies Can Use Generative AI to Boost Performance
By Ram Gopal
The AI of the beholder: Managers need to examine where AI can improve workflow processes.
Generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy, according to...