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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...
Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities
By S. C. Mukhopadhyay and N. K. Suryadevara
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is used to describe embedded devices (things) with Internet connectivity, allowing...
Building Capabilities in Segmentation Implementation
By Adina Poenaru, Paul Baines, and Hugh Wilson
Segmentation is central to marketing strategy but implementing it is fraught with challenges. In this article, Paul...
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Women in the Paid Labour Force: Global Work-Family Challenges and Solutions
By Bahira S. Trask As an increasing number of women join the global labour-force, families have undergone...
Want More Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship? Go Low-Tech!
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
Promoting entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a way to revive stagnant economies. Below, Terence Tse and Mark Esposito argue...
A Framework for Organizational Storytelling
By Janis Forman
Taken from chapter 2 of Storytelling in Business: The Authentic and Fluent Organization, this excerpt focuses on the importance of authenticity, the...
Mindfulness, Mindlessness, and Work
By Michael Pirson
While mindfulness was originally developed as an individual concept, it has been transferred to the organisational level in the context of research...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will Shape Strategy
By Mike Canning & Eamonn Kelly
The need for bold strategies to capitalise on the dynamism of our times has never been greater. Below, Mike...
Competitive Advantage Through HR Innovation
By Upamali Amarakoon, Jay Weerawardena, & Martie-Louise Verreynne
Despite great recognition for human resources (HR) as a source of value addition within firms, HR innovation...
Designing Inspiring Futures: Six Lessons of Sustainable Innovation
By Steven P. MacGregor & Tamara Carleton
Sustainability remains the key term for our future world. As Steven P. MacGregor and Tamara Carleton embark on...
The Hidden Costs In Business Processes
By Richard Ward
Most businesses are affected by hidden costs in procurement, distribution, order processing, sales and finance. Organisations can benefit from a careful review...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources
By Christophe Sempels & Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core of the Vision
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
Competitive Advantage Rewired
By Adrian T H Kuah, Mark Esposito & Terence Tse
Is competitive advantage still an applicable concept so many years after its introduction? Our research...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance
By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira
Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
March – April 2013
Global Economy
A 'Sigh of Relief' at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
Michael Useem
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
Irv Rothman
Global Management
Fast-Expanding Markets:...
Innovation and Integration for an Environmentally Friendly Alberta
Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less.
Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...
Getting Ruthless With Your Processes
By Avinash Goyal, Suzanne Heywood & Toby Gibbs
Consistent global processes add value—up to a point. New research helps companies find the right balance between...
January – February 2013
Leadership
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
Patrick R. Dailey & Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Leading The Capability Revolution
Jonathan Trevor
Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great...
Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice
By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores
This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...
How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth
By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson
Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times
• Since...
The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
July – August 2012
Leadership
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Sean Culey
Women Leaders: The Gender Trap
Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis...
May – June 2012
Leadership
Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture
Sean Culey
The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite
Maria Guadalupe,...
Understanding and Mastering Complexit
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges
By Patrick R. Dailey
From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Future Proofing the Boardroom
By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and...
Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities
By Daniel Diermeier
Maintaining a strong reputation is critical for a company’s sustained success. Yet, almost every day a new crisis makes the headlines. These...
Making Best Practices Stick
By Adrian Done, Chris Voss and Niels Gorm Rytter
Several key factors influence the short-term success and long-term sustainability of best practice interventions. Management of...
How Electronic Document Interchange delivers the goods for FMCG businesses: a case study
By Ian Ford
In a business where timing and efficiency is critical, FirstB2B’s EDI solution handles a complex sequence of electronic messages effortlessly, ensuring things...
Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
Invisible Capital and Why We Need to Democratize Entrepreneurial Opportunity
By Chris Rabb
Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
A Word About Dynamic Supply Chains: Delivering value through people
By John Gattorna
The key to successful supply chain management is recognising that it’s people who really drive the living supply chains that are at...
Nanomaterials-Moving towards stabilisation
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The nanomaterials industry (NMs) is slowly evolving, from producing a suite of innovative materials in Research and Development (R&D) to laying a basis whereby...
Prospects for the World Economy 2011
By David Bartlett, Economic Advisor, RSM International
Solidation prevails in the United Kingdom and other member states.
• The divergent growth paths of developed and emerging...
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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...