Insights

Per­son­nel ques­tions are high on the agen­das of many exec­u­tive board meet­ings. And top man­agers are con­sid­er­ing how HR depart­ments can be even more effec­tive in shap­ing the future of their companies.

03/2024

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty is fueled by high lev­els of trust­wor­thi­ness and solid imple­men­ta­tion. This overview shows the very dif­fer­ent ways in which com­pa­nies from dif­fer­ent indus­tries need to pri­or­i­tize their short-term projects and approaches.

11/2023

Chat­G­PT is com­ing to work­places. But who com­mands suf­fi­cient knowl­edge of this lan­guage model’s func­tions, abil­i­ties, appli­ca­tions, and risks to make good deci­sions on whether and how to use it in pro­fes­sion­al settings?

09/2023

Whether their data are stored in a cloud or lake, most com­pa­nies have a respectable vol­ume of dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion at their dis­pos­al. At first glance, that is. For all too often, their stock­piles turn out to be min­i­mal­ly struc­tured and large­ly unprocessed mass­es of raw mate­r­i­al, says AI expert Kevin Lin in the interview.

12/2022

Every­day oper­a­tions at many com­pa­nies are deter­mined by a con­stant pres­sure to change. Yes­ter­day’s guide­lines no longer apply to today’s world. The mere appeal to ratio­nal thought alone is not enough to bring every­one on board. Intu­ition plays a key role in suc­cess­ful change man­age­ment. And it all begins in the minds of top managers.

01/2022

When—seem­ing­ly overnight—a pan­dem­ic changed the way the world worked, Porsche’s con­sul­tants had to come up with clever ways to com­plete projects with­out let­ting clients down.

09/2020

Dig­i­tal inno­va­tions not only sim­pli­fy the lives of doc­tors and patients but can pro­tect them too. With that aim, GE Health­care—a man­u­fac­tur­er of med­ical sys­tems—wants to do away with wait­ing rooms.

09/2020

Bat­tling the corona­virus is part of every­day oper­a­tions at Munich’s Rechts der Isar Hos­pi­tal. Com­mer­cial direc­tor Dr. Elke Frank sees oppor­tu­ni­ties now to catch up on digitalization.

09/2020

Crises tend to hit peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions unpre­pared. Strong per­son­al­i­ties are then need­ed, who can see the big pic­ture and act calm­ly. What exact­ly are the qual­i­ties of out­stand­ing cri­sis managers?

09/2020

Act­ing swift­ly and authen­ti­cal­ly, ensur­ing trans­paren­cy, build­ing trust—the demands placed on com­mu­ni­cat­ing with stake­hold­ers are espe­cial­ly high in a cri­sis. In such sit­u­a­tions social media are both a bless­ing and a curse.

09/2020

The Covid-19 cri­sis has not affect­ed all parts of the econ­o­my equal­ly. For some indus­tries it has even brought more oppor­tu­ni­ties than chal­lenges. We present cru­cial con­sid­er­a­tions for top man­agers in fields from mechan­ical engi­neer­ing to finan­cial ser­vices.

09/2020