There’s a plethora of strategic frameworks today that have evolved over the past 70 years to help businesses make decisions. Some have stood the test of time, but still could be refreshed for today’s world. Read more in strategy-business Practicing…

An ecosystem integration strategy enables enterprises to fully embrace new technology in previously cumbersome ways. Now, companies can take advantage of modern cloud services and SaaS solutions rather than rely on outdated legacy software that cannot keep up with the…

The idea is simple: We’ll sell you a car with a dash cam, or that can be driven hands-free, or that can coach you with telematics data to be a better driver. But if you actually want to use any…

The next phase of remote work will transform economies, as more companies revise their policies to accommodate employees who have permanently shifted to working remotely, and more workers move to places they’ve always wanted to live but couldn’t. Read more…

Four scenarios—based on consumers’ travel expectations and the popularity of different means of transportation—emerged for how the European travel landscape will look in the next few years. If the growth in passenger kilometers traveled continues on its prepandemic trajectory, 2019’s…

Eight global supply chains account for more than 50% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Only a small proportion of these emissions are produced during final manufacturing. Most are embedded in the supply chain—in base materials, agriculture, and the freight transport…

From a marketing and communications perspective, for the last decade or more, it’s been all about awareness. When you say climate change is real and happening, what do I do about that today? The message hasn’t been as immediate, and…

To achieve success in scaling analytics, organizations can look to the practices of the 8 percent of companies in our survey that are breaking away from the pack. Based on our research, there are nine critical drivers of these breakaway…

The human desire for simplicity is ancient, and especially evident during times in which society undergoes upheaval. Humans need meaning and connection, and they need these things — as working people or consumers of business products or leaders of businesses…

While footfall and sales per square foot still have their place, retail needs a wider set of KPIs that measure how people are actually shopping and discovering and interacting. Without the right KPIs, you won’t know if you’re on track…

Retail transformation has become a common phrase in the industry in recent years.Retailers recognise that the world, and in turn their customers, are changing and that they need to change as well.The approach to transformation is often lacking which means…

Firms where 30% of leaders are women have a 15% increase in profitability (a net profit margin that is more than 1 percentage point higher) compared with similar firms with no female leaders, according to research from the Peterson Institute…

Current efforts to combat climate change leave women behind. But drawing women fully into the fight is a win-win—accelerating climate progress and advancing gender equity. Read more in BCG Why Climate Action Needs a Gender Focus By Zineb Sqalli, Shalini…

A workplace that does not foster trans inclusivity not only hurts the individual but also the business. While creating a trans-inclusive environment should not be about making a profit or avoiding litigation, businesses should nevertheless understand there is a cost…

One ley element of strategy is to use a simple filter to separate the ideas that are table-stakes behaviors, which should be expected of any employee, from the X factors that will really drive success. This is priceless  for internal…

Let’s make one thing clear: No one is saying this AI is bringing back Klimt’s original works. “It’s not a process of recreating the actual colors, it is re-colorizing the photographs,” Read more in Wired Can AI Truly Give Us…

Studies have found that 40% to 80% of students drop out of online classes.Those who give up miss out. In one survey of more than 50,000 learners who completed MOOCs on Coursera, 72% reported career benefits such as doing their…