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Hot Topic
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A key topic for great leadership, right now.

High performance
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The latest ideas and fresh thinking from around the world.

Innovation
leadership

New findings on building the innovative enterprise.

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Guest expert shares their latest insights on the future of leadership

Recent Hot Topics
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Transform your Services with ‘Servitization’

Some industries are experiencing a switch from focusing on products and production, to service and holistic solutions for their customers, clients, citizens, etc. This focus is offering a new way to be financially sustainable and yet, despite this growing recognition, the adoption of servitization is still moving quite slowly. In part, this is because it involves not only business model innovation, but also organisational change and new technologies to be adopted.

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February 2017

How to Develop the Climate for Innovation
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How to Develop the Climate for Innovation

Even when successful, culture can take nine years or more to implement and embed. Climate improvements, on the other hand, can be implemented and measured within seconds. This Hot Topic explores how leaders can use the power of climate to achieve real and immediate results in the organisation.

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January 2017

From Operator to Strategist: Evolving Your Leadership for Strategic Impact
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From Operator to Strategist: Evolving Your Leadership for Strategic Impact

Are you still leading like an operator, or thinking and acting like a strategist? As leadership roles expand, the challenge is to shift from delivery and control to shaping systems, influencing across boundaries, and sustaining long-term value. This hot topic explores the behaviours, mindset shifts, and organisational demands that define strategic leadership.

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From Operator to Strategist: Evolving Your Leadership for Strategic Impact

Leading Digital Transformation
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Leading Digital Transformation

Researchers from London Business School emphasise the significance, especially for established firms, of developing a new digital mindset to stay competitive. They describe it as a ‘fast/forward’ mindset. Fast, in this context, means alert, agile, experimental and capable of decisive action. Forward means proactive and searching, and it also means seeking to create a meaningful connection with customers and other business partners.

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January 2017 Special Issue

Innovation Forecast: Are we prepared for M2M?
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Innovation Forecast: Are we prepared for M2M?

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications refer to autonomous communication between devices or machines. Advances in these areas are well underway, and they bring major new and different leadership and management challenges.

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December 2016

Crowdsource Innovation: New Tools to Leverage the Wisdom of Crowds
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Crowdsource Innovation: New Tools to Leverage the Wisdom of Crowds

Although open innovation can help companies tackle complex business problems that they can’t solve on their own, pushing problems to a vast group of strangers can seem risky to many managers. But excluding crowdsourcing from the corporate innovation tool kit could mean losing a great opportunity.

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November 2016

21st Century Leadership. For Innovation and Purpose Led Transformation
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21st Century Leadership. For Innovation and Purpose Led Transformation

In business, many people say that it is impossible to predict the future; that all we can do is prepare for uncertainty. But what if managers could now acquire the skills to make some predictions of the future, to better defend or create their organisation’s competitive advantage? According to researchers at London Business School (LBS) this is possible.

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November 2016 Special Issue

Power of Being Divisive. How a Bad Reputation Can Foster a Stronger Corporate Culture
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Power of Being Divisive. How a Bad Reputation Can Foster a Stronger Corporate Culture

While public relations and communication professionals have often focused on how to repair a damaged reputation, October’s Guest Expert, Dr. Thomas Roulet, looks beyond defensive perspectives with his statement: “there may be no point repairing a bad reputation when it is actually an asset for an organisation and a driver of change.”

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October 2016

Use Creative Techniques in Agile Design for Better Business Processes
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Use Creative Techniques in Agile Design for Better Business Processes

“Agile” techniques usually make little reference to established creativity theories and techniques, and integrating creative thinking into agile processes is a challenge.

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September 2016

Use Behavioural Strategy for Better Strategic Decisions
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Use Behavioural Strategy for Better Strategic Decisions

Cognitive biases are often a result of our attempt to simplify information processing. They are rules of thumb that help us make sense of the world and reach decisions with relative speed. These personal rules are very often unconscious.

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August 2016

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Better Management Training, Better Results

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