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Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow,...
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...
Internet of Things: A Review and Future Perspective
By N. K. Suryadevara and S. C. Mukhopadhyay
Internet of Things (IoT) is all about the ability to sense things, understand and act according to...
New Models and the Changing Contexts of Business School
By Peter Lorange, Jagdish N. Sheth and Howard Thomas
The traditional models of many business schools are being questioned given their serious...
Leadership Mindsets for IT Success
By Donald A. Marchand and Joe Peppard
Negative stereotypes regarding IT departments abound: they are slow, ineffective, dull. But the reality is very different. As...
Securing Mobile Targets
By John Vestberg
While 4G and LTE networks deliver unprecedented bandwith and performance, they lack the inherent security of previous-generation networks. Below, John Vestberg, CEO...
Marketing Strategies for a Digital World
By Eric Greenberg and Alexander Kates
In an increasingly digital age, organizations are being rapidly educated about the importance and scale of digital channels, and...
Using Business Cases to Champion New Ideas and Advocate Business Growth
By Wolfgang Messner
Despite clear business-growth objectives, managers often have to make decisions on projects with uncertain outcomes, which can result in failed initiatives, missed...
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...
The Obstacles to Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe, and How to Deal...
By Viviane de Beaufort
An increasing number of women are interested in creating their own business – yet even in the 21st century, there are...
What It Takes to Succeed with Big Data
By Tom Davenport
Big data is something that everyone in business needs to know about. Below, Tom Davenport discusses how organisations can harness the power...
People: A Key to Innovation Capability
By Scott J. Edgett
Top performing companies recognise that successful innovation is inherently complex. Below, Scott J. Edgett argues that no matter how much...
Unlocking the Internet of Things
By John Bates
Big data is amassing like snow in a blizzard, forming an avalanche that threatens to bury anyone who ignores it. Below, John...
Big Data Takes On Big Weather
By Djeevan Schiferli, IBM
Some European cities are turning to Big Data to not only predict the weather and its potential impact, but also to...
Tools for Success
By Gwynne Richards and Susan Grinsted
Supply chain management and logistics is taking centre stage in many companies today. Until recently the areas of warehousing...
The Limits to Outsourcing: Beware of the Consequences for Market Success!
By Masaaki Kotabe, Michael J. Mol, Janet Y. Murray & Ronaldo Parente
Over the past few decades, outsourcing, in particular offshore outsourcing, has become a...
Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs
By Yossi Sheffi
Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...
Attributes of Engineers and Engineering for the 21st Century World
By PE Seeram Ramakrishna
The world’s leading businesses are global. Below, PE Seeram Ramakrishna argues that engineering education should be reformed to nurture ‘global engineers’...
The Globally Integrated Enterprise: Developing Enterprise Integration as a Strategic Capability
By Maximilian Chowanetz and Sia Siew Kien
Many large enterprises have embarked on enterprise integration (EI) initiatives in recent years. Below, Maximilian Chowanetz and Sia...
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...
Work Teams Have Emotions, Too (and you need to understand them)
By Sigal G. Barsade and Donald E. Gibson
As the use of groups and teams increases in organisations, more studies consider behaviours in a group...
Innovation: A Critical Capability
By Scott J. Edgett
An organisation that believes in the importance of innovation takes the steps necessary to ensure it is a top performer. Below,...
Staying Power: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
In December 2005, I was invited by Oxford University to deliver the 2009 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies and then to...
Meeting Expectations
By John Sutherland
Most senior teams only have one or two ways of working together and never learn to vary their approach, based on the...
The Solution Economy: A New Way to Solve Social Problems
By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan
In recent years an entire economy of societal problem solvers have emerged to tackle old problems in new...
How to Boost the Insight Generation Power of Your Workforce in...
By Alessandro Di Fiore
In a knowledge society, a company’s competitive advantage derives from the capability to generate and apply insights to innovation. Below, Alessandro...
Stop the Nonsense! Innovation is a Discipline.
By Jay Rao
For most firms, innovation is more a slogan or aspiration than a managed practice. Below, Jay Rao shows that for the best...
The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies
By Chris Malone & Susan T. Fiske
Social science research tells us that over 80 percent of our judgments can be predicted by fundamental warmth...
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...
The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their...
By John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
In The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen argue that successful large-scale organizational...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping...
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
The Language of Deception
By Michael T. Braun, Lyn M. Van Swol & Deepak Malhotra
Separating lies from truths is key to successful negotiation, and research designed to uncover...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis
A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
Who’d be a School Leader? Current and Future Challenges
By Peter Earley
Strong school leadership is viewed as especially important for the regeneration of failing schools. Below, Peter Earley draws upon recent research into...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
The Real-World Use of Big Data: How innovative enterprises extract value...
By Rich Hume
In industries throughout the world, executives are recognising the opportunities associated with Big Data. Despite what seems like unrelenting media attention, it...
The Quality of Working Life: Managers’ Wellbeing, Motivation and Productivity
By Les Worrall & Cary Cooper
The recent economic crisis has created waves of turbulence that have rocked and even sunk many UK organisations....
Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Privacy Risks of Big Data
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier
In Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier...
Dynamism and Discontinuity: Eight Trends in the Business Environment that will...
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...
When Relationships at Work, Work (And Don’t Work!)
By Rachel L. Morrison, Helena D. Cooper-Thomas & Susan Geertshuis
Like them or loathe them we cannot escape the people we work with. In Relationships...
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
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...
Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Development
By Wim Naudé & Adam Szirmai
What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for developing countries to adapt existing...
How Enterprises Exploit Five Digital Capabilities to Globalise
By Siew Kien Sia, Peter Weill & Christina Soh
Some of the most successful enterprises have embraced global diversity and operate nimbly in multiple countries...
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...
By Christophe Sempels & Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
The Blue Line Imperative: A Radical New Approach to Value-Based Leadership
By Kevin Kaiser & S. David Young
In The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means, Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young introduce...
Security-as-a-Service: At Your Service
By David Sandin
David Sandin, product manager of Clavister shows how new approaches to delivering next-generation security can benefit your business.
The firewall has been the...
Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the...
By Paolo Guenzi & Dino Ruta
Sport can use some managerial know-how, and managers have a lot to learn from the world of sport. Below,...
TOP READS OF THE WEEK
Environmental Heroes and Villains – What Separates Truly Sustainable Organisations from those that Play Around the Edges?
By Giovani Palafox-Alcantar
COP29 underscored the gap between climate commitments and tangible actions, reflecting both progress and significant challenges. What is the critical role of business in bridging this gap and why are some companies...
Top Picks for 2025: Key Articles for Leaders and Readers
As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global trade dynamics will be crucial to long-term success. So will...
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