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A collaborative approach to training AI models can yield better results, but it requires finding partners with data that complements your own. José Parra-Moyano, Karl Schmedders, and Maximilian Werner set out the basics.

Caspar Herzberg, the CEO of AVEVA, explains to Michael Wade why breaking down data silos between companies, not just within them, could transform industrial efficiency. But rivals must first learn to trust each other.

AI has the potential to become a super-useful teammate, but CHROs must manage its deployment with care. Answer the questions below to check how employees feel about its adoption and watch out for three possible impacts on team dynamics.

AI has the potential to become a super-useful teammate, but CHROs must manage its deployment with care. Answer the questions below to check how employees feel about its adoption and watch out for three possible impacts on team dynamics.

AI and sustainability are transforming the business landscape, yet many organizations treat the two as separate mandates, led by separate teams pulling in different directions. Instead, they must integrate these forces, using five principles for a…

The business case for AI is realized when the application is scaled, not in the use cases of the pilot phase. Use the checklist below at the outset to ensure the transition from a successful use case to a transformative project.

Unlock GenAI’s full potential by going deep and narrow: focus on strategic opportunities, lasting advantage, and meaningful impact over quick wins.

With AI fever in overdrive, everyone is searching for winning AI use cases. However, the process feels like solving a giant jigsaw puzzle without a picture on the box to guide you.

Working in silos is one of the biggest obstacles to digital success. The key to real digital transformation is to align the various business units in the organization. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls.

Learning new digital tools, technologies, and business models presents both short-term and longer-term challenges. Here’s a quick guide to the essentials of getting your people up to speed and beyond.

The tenure of a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is relatively short due to a variety of factors. To avoid costly mistakes, design the role around the four key actions below – but start by checking that everything is in place for your CDO to succeed.

AI’s transformative potential requires more than technical readiness – it demands workforce readiness. Consult the checklist to gauge whether your employees are learning by doing, and follow the three steps to begin reskilling at scale.

Here’s what leaders need to unlearn to scale AI across their organizations.

Are you doing the right things to make your company future-ready? My research suggests you should be asking these four questions to find out. We studied companies that were more successful getting through a landscape shift as big as the pandemic i…

Using the ‘Future Back’ tool can set your organization on the path to a successful sustainable business transformation. Knut Haanaes and Bryony Jansen-van Tuyll outline three practical steps to achieve lasting results.

Senior executives are facing a clarion call to scale sustainable business models amid unprecedented pandemic disruptions and a looming climate crisis. While global leaders at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference made major commitment…

Choosing a digital governance model is a critical part of a digital transformation strategy. Research has indicated that governance is a key driver of financial performance for businesses that have undergone digital transformations.

Reframing the psychology of organizational change helps leaders move from control to co-creation, enabling power-with models that thrive in complexity.

Progressing to senior leadership begins by upgrading your mindset. Here’s how to get started.

Progressing to senior leadership begins by upgrading your mindset. Here’s how to get started.

Elite athlete habits can help leaders perform longer. Olympians share practical ways to build longevity, manage energy, and achieve goals with less stress sustainably.

Standard Chartered’s Tanuj Kapilashrami oversaw a fundamental workforce transformation from a jobs-based to a skills-powered model. Here she shares five key steps to make the transition.

Davos 2026 laid bare transatlantic cracks, AI’s reality check, and sustainability’s reset—urging leaders to embrace values-based pragmatism.

UBS faces a pivotal moment as the Ermotti succession tests the board’s ability to secure future-ready leadership and execute strategy with confidence.

The average S&P 500 company now lasts under 20 years. Shareholder-value thinking has led to a short-term focus; longevity can be achieved only by investing in people, innovation, and stewardship.

IMD’s Inside the Transition explores how finance drives the energy transition, with Pictet CSO Marie-Laure Schaufelberger on credibility, capital, and ESG.

Claudius Hildebrand and Robert Stark share 9 steps for CEOs to sustain momentum, align teams, and turn early gains into lasting success.

For leaders, giving performance feedback can feel uncomfortable and awkward. Here are the first three prerequisites.

For leaders, giving performance feedback can feel uncomfortable and awkward. Here are the first three prerequisites.

CEOs can turn early wins into lasting success by recalibrating strategy, aligning teams, and focusing on sustainable growth and performance metrics.

Bayer’s shared ownership reshapes how teams work, empowering autonomy and accountability to focus on real value creation across the organisation.

A study of 1,000 executive posts shows how using social media signals can boost meaningful engagement by over 300% and redefine effective leadership online.

As in any conflict resolution, tackling problems in family firms begins by identifying where the problem originates and its precise nature.

Melisa Sabanci Tapan shares how redefining values and embracing AI helps preserve family legacy while staying human in a digital world

Exclusive IMD data reveals how the future of family offices is shifting as they invest in human and social capital while redefining identity to stay competitive.

Toxic board culture can stall decisions and damage trust. Learn how to spot dysfunction, break groupthink, and build a healthier, more effective board.

How one family in the life sciences industry leverages business, strategic investments, and nonprofit initiatives to improve health.

A climate of pervasive uncertainty is paralyzing decision-making. Here’s what leaders can learn about survival and resilience from multi-generational, family-run businesses.

$124tn is being passed down to the next generation, prompting a profound succession dilemma in family enterprises. Here are six steps families should take to identify and engage the next generation of wealth owners.

Discover how family business leaders can nurture a generation of givers, ensuring wealth transfer builds lasting impact.

How to navigate conflict in family business when personal relationships, priorities, or succession issues threaten stability, unity, and long-term success.

Family enterprise governance is vital for success, yet too much family involvement in these systems may undermine their effectiveness and long-term stability.

Leaders face burnout as work and life blur. Learn how enterprising families set smart boundaries to maintain work-life balance and thrive.

Mars CEO Poul Weihrauch shares how long-term family ownership enables purpose-led leadership, sustainable growth, and ethical decision-making at scale.

The Carvajal family on why the family’s foundation is the largest shareholder of their 121-year-old family business and how it’s the key to sustaining social, human, and reputational capital.