It’s counter-productive to pin all hopes and excuses on precise predictions in an increasingly uncertain world. Holding planners & managers accountable for detailed perfection will create an impossible burden and hamper meaningful business transformation.
School’s back, holidays are over, and executives and business owners will be coming back refreshed and armed with good ideas for new initiatives they have thought up while taking a well-earned August break.
Business leaders require courage to implement Integrated Business Planning – it’ll be worth it in the long term.
Servant leadership has left CEOs dealing with too many operational decisions. They need to focus on the bigger strategic matters, argues Kirsty Braines, CEO, Oliver Wight EAME.
Few businesses face the extreme challenges that mining and extraction businesses encounter in ensuring their operations minimize environmental impact.
A lack of investment in innovation and short-term thinking has left the UK’s largest water company floundering, but others can learn from the sorry episode so they don’t suffer a sinking feeling.
Record temperatures around the world should be alarming for everyone, but the onus is on organizations to take meaningful action, for the sake of humanity.
Birgit Breitschuh explores the rut many CEOs often find themselves in through short-term fire-fighting.
Oliver Wight Partner Ben Collins shares his experience and learnings from attending the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium earlier this month.
ChatGPT reached 100 million users in only two months, so businesses need to make the most of this game-changing technology, but human resource departments must be invested to ensure people are developed and not demotivated.
Change management is a crucial but often neglected area for organizations in 2023, yet a combination of tech tools, data, and old-fashioned storytelling skills will answer the vital question: “What’s in it for me?”
People will grow sick of seemingly endless reorganisations. Employers therefore need to take measures to keep their staff as engaged and motivated as possible amid all the disruption.
