Corporate Venture capital (CVC) investments have more than tripled in emerging markets in the last five years as more and more mobile operators invest in start-ups to aid their acceleration,…
When you’re starting a business — or even just thinking about starting a business — one of the most important questions you must consider is: What are you going to…
by Adi Gaskell Whether it’s the post-Brexit discussions or the US presidential debates, you could be forgiven that we’re living in a post-coalition world whereby change occurs less through building…
by Robert F Brands The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival hammers the point home that innovation is the key to your company’s survival—in…
There is perhaps no greater force than that of the collective. Collective actions have made things that were previously thought to be impossible, possible. When communities work together, it’s a powerful…
Bottom Line: Being recognized as an international brand is usually a decided competitive advantage. But some markets and certain consumers prefer local firms. Projecting an image as a brand with…
This holiday shopping season will be the most digital in history, with e-commerce more dominant than it’s ever been. And it will be brought to you by…people. The narrative, of…
The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco, Columbia University Press, 2016 In 2012, Catherine Turco became increasingly intrigued by what she saw…
When Howard Schultz resumed his role as CEO at Starbucks in 2008, the brand he’d created was losing ground. During the eight years that Schultz had been chairman while Orin…
ORLANDO, Fla. — More chief executives are looking to digital products and services, blurring the lines between physical and digital business, to fundamentally change the way their companies operate —…
Complaints about IT’s speed aren’t utterly new, yet one thing is new—there appears to be a solution. Over a final 15 years, new approaches to use growth and smoothness have…
A infancy of companies have perceived program and hardware review requests from vendors over a final 18 months—and many have undergone these audits several times during this time frame, according…
CIOs and their tech teams could better support line-of-business units by enabling what’s called “self-service” data analytics, according to a recent survey from Alteryx and Harvard Business Review. The accompanying…
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. Product design is nearly everything in proposition-simplifying. The objective is to make the product a joy to use,…
For 11 years, Arianna Huffington was the public face of the Huffington Post, the news site she created, nurtured and then sold. In August, she announced her decision to step…
Everyone fails in life, and failure can be a crushing experience. The only thing that separates successful people from the rest is how they respond after they fail. When facing…
2015 was a big year in mergers and acquisitions for companies large and small — nearly $5 trillion worth of acquisitions took place. And this wave of acquisitions is predicted to continue…
Being a parent, like running a business, is challenging. But being an entrepreneur can actually give you a leg up. Entrepreneurs are resourceful, creative and intellectually curious by nature, and…
Very few organizations are holding advantage of digital mutation initiatives to benefit business advantages over competitors, according to a new consult from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services in organisation with…
The saying goes that entrepreneurs are the only people who will work 80 hours to avoid working 40. More often than not, they’re also the only people who will try…