Gracious growth: managing the trade-off between sustainability and expansion

Geographical location – or helping to create it – dictates companies’ success

29 April 2022 • by Arturo Bris, Phil Rosenzweig in Competitiveness • 7 min read

To boost company performance, executives must support the competitiveness of their countries and embrace public-private collaboration to help articulate and implement national strategy, say IMD Professors Arturo Bris and Phil Rosenzweig....

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Overcome the seven concerns stopping you from building a more inclusive strategy 

27 April 2022 • by James Henderson, Ansgar Thiessen in Competitiveness • 11 min read

Gain competitive advantages by giving employees and stakeholders a bigger say in the organization's strategy....

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Misinformation is an unwieldly beast, but we need to stop being blasé about it

1 April 2022 • by José Caballero , Christos Cabolis in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Recent events have highlighted that consumers must now take an interest in checking the reliability of their providers...

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Business transformation and how to handle it: lessons from the front-line 

10 February 2022 • by Ric Roi in Competitiveness • 8 min read

Konica Minolta is known as a printer company, but a dual transformation is underway. Sam Errigo, Chief Operating Officer at Konica Minolta Business Solutions in the US, talks to Ric Roi about...

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I by IMD Book Club: 2022 reading list

1 February 2022 in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Our first four books look at topics we believe are relevant for executives right now - from China's retail revolution to how to innovate your business model, supply chain strategy management and...

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What do job seekers think of your organization’s political position?

1 February 2022 • by Liwen Zhang in Competitiveness • 4 min read

Research has found roughly a third of job seekers will not apply to a firm because of its political views. ...

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Happy people, happy economy? Moving beyond GDP in measuring economic success in 2022

11 January 2022 • by Arturo Bris in Competitiveness • 7 min read

One Swiss canton is turning the tables on the status quo of economic health, by departing from the norm of taking GDP as the measure par excellence, and looking concomitantly into how...

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Have you considered the actual relationship between E, S and G?

15 November 2021 • by Christos Cabolis, Karl Schmedders in Competitiveness • 6 min read

On the heels of the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference there is global buzz about ESG goals, but many gaps remain between companies’ talk and their actions. ...

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Malaysia’s digital competitiveness: Time to step up

3 November 2021 • by Arturo Bris, Misiek Piskorski in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Investment in digital hardware and a long history as a manufacturer and exporter of high-tech goods has long given Malaysia strong digital fundamentals. ...

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Smart cities need to be heading in a human-centric, digitally inclusive direction or the tech won’t pay off, panelists agree

28 October 2021 in Competitiveness • 6 min read

Experts air views on Smart City policies since COVID-19, saying citizens’ needs take priority....

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