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How to use AI to transform your board

April 21, 2026 • by Didier Cossin, Yukie Saito in AI • 3 min read

AI is profoundly transforming the business landscape, presenting both significant opportunities and new challenges to boards. Here are five ways to use the technology as a powerful boardroom ally. ...

Are you matching your AI strategy to your reality?

April 14, 2026 • by Cyril Bouquet in AI • 4 min read

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....

5 key steps to scaling AI: Lessons from the best-in-class

March 4, 2026 • by Tomoko Yokoi, Michael R. Wade in AI • 3 min read

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 you leveraging AI learning or competing with it?

February 19, 2026 • by Michael D. Watkins in AI • 3 min read

As AI reshapes business operations, your leadership development efforts must focus on enabling humans to continue to add distinctive value. Michael D. Watkins explains how to use the 75/25% rule to guide...

How to build a business that survives the next five years

February 10, 2026 • by Susanne May in AI • 3 min read

Forget everything you’ve heard about genius CEOs, intuition, and heroic decision-making, says Susanne May – use Jensen Huang’s radical leadership of Nvidia as a blueprint to succeed in the AI era....

10 ways AI can support learning and skills resilience (or not)

February 5, 2026 • by Michael D. Watkins in AI • 3 min read

AI can do plenty in terms of learning and skills development – but educators and talent leaders also need to understand what AI tools should not be used for. ...

Good gut: Why intuition is still essential in a world of AI

January 29, 2026 • by Heather Cairns-Lee, Eugene Sadler-Smith in AI • 3 min read

Being able to use your gut instinct remains vital for effective decision-making in a data-driven world. Here’s how to use and develop your “sixth sense”....

What is federated machine learning? A 101 guide

January 14, 2026 • by José Parra Moyano, Karl Schmedders, Maximilian Ulrich Werner in AI • 4 min read

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...

Tool or talent – how is your organization using AI?

December 10, 2025 • by Ginka Toegel in AI • 4 min read

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...

Management mythbusters: The AI vs sustainability trade-off

December 3, 2025 • by Michael R. Wade, Konstantinos Trantopoulos in AI • 4 min read

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...

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