Idea posted: January 2023

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management   

While new technology is intended to make work more efficient and effective, it often helps the professionals in a company while increasing the workload and decreasing the autonomy of assistants…

Idea posted: September 2022

Institutions: Drucker School of Management    Claremont Graduate University   

Companies once viewed themselves as isolated entities engaged in win-lose battles with opponents for the same set of customers. The technology-driven evolution of business has re-ordered the universe. Today, companies…

Idea posted: May 2021

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Zhejiang University School of Management   

Many companies struggle to keep up with today’s supercharged, constantly evolving competitive markets, where customers needs, products and technologies change at ever-increasing speed. An in-depth study of the global telecom…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: Babson College   

The concept of agility — an approach to innovation and development based on shorter project timeframes, focused targets and ‘sprints’ — was first conceived in software development companies. Metaphors such…

Idea posted: April 2019

Institutions: Henley Centre for Leadership    Henley Business School    Deutsche Telekom    Detecon International   

New technologies and new attitudes about the role of business in society have rendered obsolete the business models, routines and processes rooted in the industrial world, according to a recent…

Idea posted: November 2016

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management   

In the annual global MIT/Deloitte survey of executives and managers, 90% of respondents recognized that digital trends would disrupt their industries. Only 44%, however, believed their organizations were prepared for…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business    HEC Paris    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Does a Chief Marketing Officer help a company, or is this position a ‘C’ that doesn’t earn its place in the C-suite? In 2008, an influential research study by Pravin…

Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: The University of Manchester Alliance Manchester Business School    Cass Business School, City University London    Northumbria Newcastle Business School   

Although the impact of the 2008 recession was nearly unprecedented in its scope and depth, nearly all organizations will inevitably face setbacks and severe challenges. Stable, resilient companies can meet…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Indian School of Business   

Both agency theory and stewardship theory help explain organizational dynamics, although starting from very different assumptions. Agency theory describes the relationship between the shareholders (called ‘principals’) and the company’s managers…