The last few years have brought real change. Balance sheets today have significantly more nontangible assets—intellectual property and digital capability, for example—than ever before. And a series of ...

The idea of virtual worlds dates back as far as the 1935 short story Pygmalion’s Spectacles, by Stanley Weinbaum. And metaverse-like real-world use cases have regularly been explored through fiction ...

Digitally enabled ecosystems are a vital part of the modern business landscape. They open the door to new customers and markets, and broaden and enhance a firm’s value proposition through the seamless ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 disrupted the business environment and illuminated a profound, sometimes overlooked ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. Kristian Ebbesen Fjelde and his team knew that the executive committee meeting scheduled in mid-2019 to discuss the ...

Jamil Zaki’s The War for Kindness wasn’t always a war. When the Stanford University psychology professor started writing his acclaimed book, which asserts that empathy is a skill that can be built, it ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of strategy+business. Senior executives, accustomed to annual performance reviews and 360-degree assessments, can be quick to acknowledge ...

It was Confucius who said that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I’m going to explain why achieving simplicity matters, and how organizing strategy around the number six ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of strategy+business. Uncertainty is like the weather. It’s always there, part of the atmosphere, and a condition over which individuals and ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of strategy+business. Close to US$3.8 trillion is expected to be invested by businesses in digital transformations in 2019, up 3.2 percent ...

A version of this article appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of strategy+business. Call it a tale of two industries. For the vast global television sector, this is the best of times and the worst of ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of strategy+business. A profound but mostly unrecognized demographic and economic trend is unfolding around the world right now. The average ...