| Social media: What next? |
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Social media is here to stay. What can we expect and how do companies stay ahead? A digital strategist shares her views.
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| Technology über alles |
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The death of Apple’s Steve Jobs is also an opportunity to take a look at Apple’s “seeds” and what those companies are doing today, thanks in no small part to the refocusing of the industry to which Jobs and his company contributed.
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| Meetings: Do you really need to show up? |
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Virtual tools such as email, instant messaging and Skype can be just as effective as face-to-face meetings. It all depends on orientation and mindsets.
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| Can you really make money online? A seed investor tells us how |
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Ecommerce startup investment options are plentiful in Asia, so how do you capitalise and avoid losing it all?
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| When deadlines don't work: The perils of exploding job offers |
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Employers could be forgiven for wanting their favorite candidates to accept a job offer NOW. But new research shows that putting a time limit on a job offer can have far-reaching negative repercussions.
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| InnovaLatino Survey: Surprises in Latin America |
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A new technology report shows that there’s an abundance of innovation in Latin America that more than compensates for the region’s information technology challenges. INSEAD, the OECD and Telefonica surveyed more than 1,500 manufacturing firms from eight countries and documents Latin America’s tech-readiness.
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| Gauging the digital age: The Global Information Technology Report, 2010 - 2011 |
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How networked is your country and what does it take to make it to the top of the technology profile? The Global Information Technology Report (GITR), jointly published by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum, ranks 138 countries based on their information and communications technologies.
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| The sweatshop on your conscience: How consumers and marketers are more responsible than they’d like to think |
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Lower consumer prices and higher profit margins take the spotlight off poor working conditions in cheap labour markets. Changing those practices is as much a responsibility of the marketer and consumer as it is of the supplier. INSEAD professor N.Craig Smith explains how and why responsible consumerism matters.
Additionally, Bill Anderson of the Adidas Group and Professor N. Craig Smith talk to INSEAD Knowledge about the ethical issues within global supply chains and whether sweatshop labour conditions will improve. Read more..
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| Greed and deception: Is it too late for ethical banking? |
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As it turns out, Big Bang – the deregulation of stock markets across Europe back in 1986 – really was an event that shook the world. Author and independent stock analyst Cyrus Mewawalla tells INSEAD Knowledge that deregulation, greed and deceit are at the root of today’s financial crisis, and suggests ways to return to ethical banking.
Mewawalla is the author of the fictional financial thriller City of Thieves (under the nom de plume of Cyrus Moore.)
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| The art of the deal: Is ethics in the picture? |
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Every so often in negotiations, we find ourselves exaggerating a truth in order to make a stronger case for our argument. Or perhaps slipping in a white lie to gain an advantage. We compromise our ethics when we choose to use power, manipulation or information asymmetries. We create a recipe for ethical negotiation failure.
But ethics matter. It therefore becomes imperative to enter into negotiations independent of power and apply a value negotiation approach, says INSEAD professor Horacio Falcao. Read more.. |
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| How to make friends and gain influence ... by losing employees |
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Fighting to attract and retain the best talent is still important but letting employees go, even in good times, is also beneficial, says a research team led by INSEAD faculty Andrew Shipilov and Frédéric Godart.
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| The value of bicultural individuals to organisations |
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How do companies improve operationally with diverse and talented workforces? By taking advantage of individuals who feel at home in multiple cultures, says INSEAD visiting professor Mary Yoko Brannen.
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| The ties that bind |
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Stewardship: it's a seemingly old-fashioned term, thought to have been first used in the 15th century, and, at first sight, maybe somewhat obsolete in today's business world of quarterly profits and shareholder value.
But although it's a centuries-old term, it may still resonate today, particularly with family businesses.
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| Secrets of virtual success |
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Today's financial woes have forced many companies to pick members of project teams from across various global locations and have them communicate virtually - by phone, email and videoconferencing - thereby saving both time and money.
How do you manage a team across borders and time zones? Start by tearing up your old management rule book.
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| Why social media are 'absolutely crucial' to businesses |
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In today's age of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace, social media constitute "an absolutely crucial part" of doing business, as many consumers around the world use social networks, says Thomas Crampton, Asia Pacific Director of 360 Digital Influence, an internet marketing communications arm of Ogilvy Public Relations.
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| Just a pretty face(book)? Social media tries to come of age |
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Emails are old hat; SMSs passe. Tweeting, blogging, and posting on "walls" are no longer the domain of the under-30s. They have become a staple of the way most people in the world communicate today, of the way Fortune 100 companies reach out to customers old and new.
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| Wired in: who leads the networking world? |
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The answer is: look north - to Scandinavia. All four of those countries are in the top ten of The Networked Readiness Index 2009-2010, part of the Global Information Technology Report published by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum, now in its ninth edition. In fact, Scandinavian countries have led the pack since the index's inception. Why? "Scandinavian countries in general do very well in these kinds of metrics and analysis, not just in technology," says one of the index's creators and co-author of the report, INSEAD Professor of Information Systems Soumitra Dutta.
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