Posts Tagged ‘business model’
Business school sustainability revisited: Sustainable no more?
Kai Peters and Howard Thomas reflect on their 2011 Global Focus article, “A Sustainable Model for Business Schools”, and 2018 book, “Rethinking the Business Model of Business Schools”.
Read MoreBusiness school 5.0: Continuously rewired, boundary-spanning
Charting a business school trajectory is about developing and cultivating new organisational capabilities. Two such capabilities are the need to engage in continuous rewiring and becoming more boundary-spanning.
Read MoreHaier as a quantum organisation
20th-century business models may no longer serve business needs. Danah Zohar believes that Quantum Management Theory, as implemented in Haier’s RenDanHeYi Management Model, meets that need.
Read MoreThe RenDanHeYi Italian style. From creativity to venture incubation at Gummy Industries
Emanuele Quintarelli describes the deliberate transformation of the Italian creative agency Gummy Industries after learning about RenDanHeYi.
Read MoreRenDanHeYi: Pioneering the quantum organisation
This special issue of Global Focus provides insights into various aspects of RenDanHeYi (RDHY), a management model devised by the Chinese multinational Haier Group.
Read MoreResponsible leadership business model: Shifting from competition to collaboration
The lack of success in the integration of SDG content in business school education is likely due to the traditional business school mindset of competition rather than collaboration which is critical for authentic responsible leadership.
Read MoreThe future of business schools: Existential innovation or obsolescence?
Business schools face a choice: urgently embark on an existential innovation journey inspired by what they can become, or submit to certain obsolescence following from what they have been.
Read MoreAre we really never going back to the old ways of working?
Peter Thomson and Mark Thomas revisit the assumptions they made a year ago about the impact of the pandemic.
Read MoreIt’s not a great resignation, it’s a flight to quality
A recent Gallup poll suggested that only 24% of employees believed their company cared about their wellbeing. Rather than a great resignation, it’s a flight to quality; a trend accelerated by COVID-19.
Read MoreRemote work update
A study by HWZ Zurich University gave a differentiated and encouraging picture of the opportunities of remote work, but also the challenges that must be overcome.
Read MorePurpose, innovation and resilience
IPADE Business School’s guiding principles during COVID-19 and towards the “next normal” by Gabriela Alvarado and Juan Romero.
Read MoreRising model of “3I” circles
Innovation and entrepreneurship are widely regarded as the important basis for sustainable competitive advantage by enhancing capabilities for business growth.
Read MoreCompany-led learning ecosystems
Companies all around the world are facing a new challenge as the rise of business ecosystems breaks down industry borders and leads to hyper-competition for customers and corporate executives as well as corporate talent.
Read MoreA sustainable model for business schools?
Kai Peters and Howard Thomas argue that the current business model of business schools is financially unstable and probably unsustainable.
Read MoreBuilding sustainability into the value chain
Sustainability is fast becoming an essential part of value assessment – the core of the new business model. Delivering this requires a new brand of leadership, thinking and practicing with a dual vision for the future of the business and the planet.
Read MoreOpen positions: Leaders for unsettled times
As business schools transition into this still-fuzzy future, professional development of executives and staff will become an even bigger strategic priority and will demand different approaches.
Read MoreThe business of business schools
Kai Peters, Howard Thomas and Rick Smith suggest that while much has been written about business schools from historical and critical perspectives not enough has emerged from an additional viewpoint – the lens of the business of business schools.
Read MoreOrganisational design for a socially dynamic organisation
The Socially Dynamic Organisation is evolved: it is strong not simply through formal hierarchy, infrastructure and governance but rather through innovation, agility and the strength of its communities.
Read MoreMultispeed leadership
Claus Rydkjær and Tue Juelsbo outline how operating and leading at several different speeds simultaneously is necessary to succeed in an exponential world.
Read MoreHow to survive and thrive in the 21st century
Why are business schools so often wasteful and self-defeating competitors when they could be cooperation, coordination, and collaboration models? There can be transformation, says Dr Ying Zhang.
Read MoreBusiness schools face the future
Globalisation and technological developments are changing the business of business schools and presenting new opportunities to innovate, says Kai Peters.
Read MoreWalking the talk: Managing a management school
It is one of the oldest and most common complaints – management schools are great at giving good advice to others, but they rarely practise the management skills they preach.
Read MoreWhat is the European management school model?
Over the last ten to fifteen years, the identity, importance and legitimacy of European management schools have been strongly established in the context of the ‘business of business schools’, writes Howard Thomas.
Read MoreAgile universities
Borrowing from concepts first used in the software development industry, Martin Luckmann and Christiane Prange suggest how modern universities can regain their role.
Read MoreBusiness and management education for the future: An emergent model for China
The need for renewed approaches to business and management research and teaching has been intensively discussed. Dajian Zhu and Anders Aspling analyse the implications of this for management education in China.
Read MoreCustomised executive learning: A business model for the 21st century
A new design for tailored executive education is emerging – Gert-Jan van Wijk and Jamie Anderson report on the Platform Model.
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