How Boards Are Coping With Covid-19
Enrico DiecidueAugust 10, 2020
By Enrico Diecidue A new survey provides a snapshot of corporate boards’ resilience to challenges and risks posed by the pandemic. A crucial role of any board is risk management. This responsibility includes setting the appropriate risk level, monitoring management’s actions against that benchmark, scanning the horizon for potential problems and helping management deal […]
Power, Politics and Crisis Response on the Board
Henrich GreveAugust 10, 2020
By Henrich Greve It’s not the individual directors – it’s the competing coalitions they form that determine what boards will do. When crisis kicks in, we tend to rely on instinct. Familiar solutions and well-honed responses will occur most naturally to us – regardless of their relevance to the problem at hand. If you want […]
To Navigate Office Politics, Map Out Your Friends and Foes
Andy J. YapAugust 3, 2020
By Andy J. Yap Before you make a political move, draw a POWER map. “The higher up the mountain, the more treacherous the path.” – Frank Underwood (House of Cards) Organisational politics is ubiquitous. If you think your workplace is without politics, then perhaps you have been blindsided. Everyone has different goals and motives, and […]
Shoring Up Executive Careers in a Pandemic
Lee Seok HwaiAugust 3, 2020
By Lee Seok Hwai The best time to plan for contingencies was yesterday. The next best time is now. Even before the coronavirus pandemic derailed the global economy and decimated jobs by the millions, executives everywhere were grappling with technological disruptions as well as issues triggered by climate, social and political upheaval. Then COVID-19 happened. […]
Covid-Era CEOs Are ‘Keen, Tough or Edgy’
Stanislav ShekshniaJuly 27, 2020
By Stanislav Shekshnia Not all CEOs are created equal, but everyone can come out of this crisis stronger. What preoccupies CEOs during the coronavirus pandemic? What challenges do they face? How do they deal with those challenges? What are the winning strategies? To answer these questions, we surveyed more than 300 CEOs and conducted over […]
Africa’s Drone Medical Delivery Service Saves Lives in Lockdown
Lee Seok HwaiJuly 27, 2020
By Lee Seok Hwai Could airborne despatch of medical supplies also be the answer to the needs of developed countries? Ordering food deliveries online has become part of the new normal for millions of people in locked-down economies. In Africa, doctors are also placing orders remotely, but for a rather different kind of sustenance: […]
Why Public Healthcare Systems Weren’t Prepared for the Pandemic
Shantanu BhattacharyaJuly 20, 2020
By Shantanu Bhattacharya Healthcare resource sharing can be the difference between life and death. And it can be done without sacrificing agencies’ autonomy. The medical response to the Covid-19 disaster has imposed a staggering cost on global healthcare systems, and many are struggling to cope with the demand spikes on their limited resources. Healthcare systems […]
What Drives Consumers to Share Online Content
Abhishek BorahJuly 20, 2020
By Abhishek Borah How to craft social media posts that drive both clicks and profits. How to engage customers effectively in the digital world remains a mystery for many businesses today. And it won’t get easier anytime soon, because a growing number of consumers are frustrated by, and suspicious of, digital communications such as […]
How Data Is Transforming the Energy Sector
Pál BozaJuly 13, 2020
By Pál Boza One German utility company has taken the lead in transitioning to “embedded, scaled and disrupted” AI. A new energy industry is busy being born. Steadily, the sector is pivoting from a centralised and monopolistic system dependent on fossil fuels to a renewable, sustainable energy grid. (Whether this shift will be quick […]
Creating, Fast and Slow
Michaël BikardJuly 13, 2020
By Michaël Bikard Instead of bickering about the superiority of specialists or generalists, why not recognise that creative strategies involve trade-offs? Innovation is considered to be a sport for interdisciplinary brokers and boundary spanners these days. However, contrary to trends in the business literature, creativity is not always developed through a broad network. For winners […]