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The role of the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) is undergoing a profound transformation in the age of AI. Here are the tools and strategies to lead this transformation effectively.

The hype about generative AI has been partly replaced by the hype surrounding AI agents. Yet, as leaders, we struggle to keep up with the developments in the technological, economic, and societal spheres. The cover of this issue reads “Control anx…

Afterword by David Bach

Cyril Bouquet shows how to improve your return on AI investment by matching your strategy to your organizational reality and selecting among four different AI innovation approaches.

Many organizations are discovering that scaling AI is far more difficult than piloting programs. Drawing on data from the world’s largest 300 companies, the IMD AI Maturity Index reveals how the leading companies are responding to the challenge.

Sustainable corporate change is a challenging feat to pull off. Julia Binder examines the barriers and drivers of change to increase your chances of success.

How can a Southeast Asian mobile carrier navigate successive stages of dual transformation to secure its future?

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.

Evaluate if your leadership energizes or exhausts teams with a practical disruption checklist focused on curiosity, psychological safety, and growth.

Learn how AI expands cybersecurity risks and why targeted training and a culture of trust are the first line of defense for organizations.

Measure the real ROI of executive learning. IMD’s four-step framework helps CHROs link training to business impact, retention, and performance.

Explore corporate innovation strategy with insights from OPPO and OnePlus, global innovation ecosystems, and the workplace habits that hold businesses back.

Discover why trust in negotiation builds influence, strengthens confidence, and helps leaders secure better outcomes, even when walking away matters.

Explore the Power Triad and a practical checklist to dismantle systemic barriers to women in leadership and equalize executive opportunities.

Bertrand Piccard explains how leaders can overcome resistance to change, question outdated assumptions, and approach uncertainty with curiosity.

Explore a actionable playbook to bridge the rift between official narratives and lived workplace realities in toxic environments.

CEOs face greater scrutiny than ever. IMD’s Jean-François Manzoni explains how CEOs should talk with trust and integrity.

Considering a career change or new role? IMD professors share practical career advice on leadership, networking, authenticity, and growth.

Explore career advice from IMD experts: align strengths with your purpose, play the long game, and make authentic, impactful choices.

Discover three practical tips to use AI as a communications sounding board, refining tone, wording, and cross-cultural messaging for leaders.

Increased collaboration shifts employees’ political ideologies and brings business benefits.

Alfredo De Massis shows how to tap into existing ideas and knowledge to innovate and stay competitive.

Discover five principles that help a multigenerational family enterprise prosper, preserve unity and create lasting value across generations.

Research shows entrepreneurial experience outside the family business creates stronger next generation successors and increases the likelihood of their return.

Discover four lessons from The Odyssey on family business succession, mentorship, next-generation engagement and leadership development today.

How the Mulliez family built a global entrepreneurial ecosystem, combining shared ownership, governance, and capital to sustain business creation across generations.

The Frescobaldi family demonstrates how stewardship, reinvention, succession planning, and strategic agility drive long-term family business success.

Family business control may erode over generations unless deliberately designed. Learn how ownership structures and family governance may preserve influence over time.

Family enterprise innovation is slowing as firms resist empowering outsiders. New research shows ideas exist, but execution fails without nonfamily leadership.

The Beckham family feud highlights how family business succession can unravel under pressure, revealing lessons in legacy, conflict, and continuity.

Why fewer than 5% of ventures scale: how interpretive capacity, not capital, enables startups to turn signals into sustained growth.

How Chef Pam transformed a 120-year-old family business into a Michelin-starred restaurant, showing how legacy drives competitive advantage and innovation.

Family business innovation using artificial intelligence, archival knowledge, heritage data and recombinant innovation creates breakthrough products and new.

Roche corporate leadership is evolving under André Hoffmann as the company modernizes governance, renews purpose, and reshapes its future in healthcare.

The four things successful families do to navigate the uncertainties of the modern world.