The European Business Review9 min readFinance & Money Management
Where FICO Gets Its Data For Screening Two-thirds Of All card Transactions
Scott Zoldi fights crime across the globe. His superpower is data - and an unprecedented, innovative process to amass that data. He’s got his work cut out for him. Every day, hordes of criminals work to exploit systemic vulnerabilities in how you and
The European Business Review6 min readSecurity
A Practical Guide To Kick-starting Your Cyber Supply Chain Risk Programme
The SolarWinds breach serves as a compelling case study, revealing the widespread consequences of vulnerabilities within supply chains. Drawing parallels with incidents in Switzerland, where the financial sector remains a prime target, this article a
The European Business Review8 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Cultivating Executive Trust In The Age Of AI Governance
As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded across sectors, governments respond with new regulations to manage risks while enabling innovation. However, complex and fragmented regulatory approaches could undermine trust in AI among key decision-
The European Business Review11 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Generative AI Update For 2024
GenAI has taken a leading role in supporting and enhancing activities, drawing on cognitive functions in many facets of our society. Unlike the robotic revolution that impacted mostly blue-collar workers in the manufacturing and assembly industries o
The European Business Review4 min readGender Studies
Taking A Stand Against The Gender Gap In Workplace Flexibility
Research commissioned by LinkedIn, involving over 2,000 workers and 503 hiring managers, reveals a stark reality: 52% of women have left or considered leaving a job due to inflexible working conditions. This statistic is a testament to the widespread
The European Business Review5 min read
PARTNERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY: Solving Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Economies
A common comparison on walking the streets of developed versus developing economies is witnessing garbage in the streets. This is observed in the South Asian and African regions due to weak and inadequate municipal solid waste management (MSWM) pract
The European Business Review5 min read
The Fungibility Of Environmental, Social, And Governance Reporting
In October 2023, the EU defeated an attempt by some of its Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to water down the requirements regarding its European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), thereby ensuring that, through the incorporation of
The European Business Review4 min read
Smells Like Patchouli! How To Innovate Without Changing Your Product
France holds a unique position as the epicentre of the perfume world. This is thanks to its historical heritage that has helped build an empire of luxury and mainstream brands that proudly present the citation of Paris on their bottles. Throughout hi
The European Business Review7 min read
A WINNING DEAL: How Biculturals Can Supercharge Your International Business Negotiations
International business negotiations can be immensely challenging, but your efforts don’t have to be lost in translation. You can effectively unlock the many hidden powers of the biculturals on your team to navigate the choppy cross-cultural waters an
The European Business Review7 min read
You Did Not Fail! You Are Just Rebounding!
The hidden side of such achievement is also common to all entrepreneurs: failure. According to the Bureau of Lahor Statistics1, in the US, at least 20% of businesses will fail in their first two years, and up to almost 50% will do so by age five. The
The European Business Review12 min read
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems To Be Fit For Purpose
Managing organisations to be highly aligned and capable of implementing their chosen strategy is an age-old challenge. It has only become harder now that many firms and public sector organisations embrace ecosystem principles in their organisational
The European Business Review10 min read
Magnetic Loyalty: Crafting Effective Loyalty Programmes That Attract And Retain Customers
According to a McKinsey study (2020), members of loyalty programmes are 30 percent more likely to spend more on the brand after subscribing. Even more, Ourself, a beauty brand recognised for its tech-centric products, attributes 40 percent of its sal
The European Business Review5 min read
Change Or TRANSFORMATION?
AI is everywhere and almost everyone is frightened by ChatGPT. Sure, some are excited, believing that AI will eliminate boring tasks and write their emails, articles, and books. This point of view does not consider that a system, in this case AI, aka
The European Business Review9 min readLeadership
A New Business Leadership Paradigm To Understand Signals And Timing: When To Enter A Business And When To Exit
In businesses’ quest for profitability, in a world that seems to be more and more demanding, and also in a journey where achieving success is increasingly challenging for most business leaders - high competition, rapid technological changes, various
The European Business Review12 min read
Arrogance, Hubris, And Narcissism: The Overconfident leader
There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business leaders, movie stars, and models in this terminology. The PR-hungry narcissistic CEO and politician i
The European Business Review16 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Trust-me: A Concept And Metric To Embed In Leaders, Enhancing Their Effectiveness
Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, whether it be personal or professional. Building trust requires effort and time, but the benefits of a trustworthy relationship are immeasurable. Trust can lead to increased communication, bette
The European Business Review1 min read
Example Of Projects Supported By Attract
ULTRARAM is a new type of computer memory that uses very little energy with the speed of DRAM and the non-volatility of flash memory. It's designed to save a lot of power in places like data centres and satellites in space. The next step for the proj
The European Business Review6 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Why The Ethical Use Of AI Matters For Your Career
In the contemporary digital era, innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) are profoundly transforming the business landscape (De Cremer, 2020). The buzz surrounding ChatGPT, coupled with recent assertions about the sentience of Google's LaMDA
The European Business Review5 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
The Key Success Factors Of A Powerful AI Factory
The beginnings of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back to Alan Turing's visionary ideas in the 1950s. Today, AI drives many successful businesses such as Netflix's video recommendations1, Airbnb's assorted rentals, Google search, and Hubsp
The European Business Review13 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Revisiting HR Challenges At The Dawn Of 2024
Individuals are caught in what Zygmunt Bauman called “liquid life“1, which means that they are deeply immersed in a consumer society, relentlessly pursuing satisfaction at an accelerated pace, longing and shifting towards authenticity, embracing indi
The European Business Review7 min read
INNOVATION, THE ART OF ABOLISHING DISTANCE Building the ATTRACT DeepTech Ecosystem
Innovation is the art of abolishing distances. Innovation thrives by combining distinct, diverse, and previously unconnected capabilities and resources to solve problems. This is particularly true for DeepTech Innovation. ATTRACT is an initiative tha
The European Business Review21 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Introducing the Concept of ARTIFICIAL INTEGRITY: THE PATH FOR THE FUTURE OF AI
The concept of “artificial integrity” proposes a critical framework for the future of AI. It emphasises the need to architect AI systems that not only align with but also enhance and sustain human values and societal norms. Artificial integrity goes
The European Business Review9 min read
The Passive-aggressive Individual
How to cure a major (mental) illness? The cure does not involve years of painful soul searching, psychotherapy, or complex cognitive behaviour therapy. The cure is cheap, effective and instant. Now that should get the attention of the NHS executives
The European Business Review7 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Getting Closer To Machines With Mindful Steps
From rocks to hammers to high-impact drills, for thousands of years, we've grown accustomed to holding tools in our hands. Now, more often, we're holding them in our minds. AI-enabled tools are rapidly growing more powerful and precise, and part of t
The European Business Review8 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
2024: What Is The Near Future Of Generative AI?
Large language models (LLMs), exemplified by Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) from OpenAI, launched the year 2023, ushering in a new revolution in AI and machine learning. While traditional machine learning models often rely on single-sou
The European Business Review9 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Enhancing Operating Models' Artificial Intelligence Quotient(aiq)
With the weekly drumbeat of Generative AI advancements and corporate leaders signalling the need for their organ-isations to make progress in harnessing the power of AI, larger questions are emerging for these same executives to address. In addition
The European Business Review7 min read
Why We Need A Resolution Revolution
There are very few people who haven't experienced some form of conflict at work at some point in their career. Managers fall out with their direct reports over performance issues, team members come to blows as a result of differing working styles, co
The European Business Review8 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Edge Computing In Europe: A Key Driver Of Business Innovation
1 83% of our survey respondents believe that edge computing will be essential to remaining competitive in the future but only 65% are using edge today. 2 Super Integrators — edge adopters that tie edge to business in transformation adoption — compris
The European Business Review6 min readCrime & Violence
Diagnosis: We Have Pii And Ip… Now What?
W ho does not know the problem: Personally Identifiable Information, PII for short. Suddenly, it sounds great to use the term without really knowing what it is and what to do with it. My trip will lead to document review, but I should first describe
The European Business Review12 min read
A Framework For Risk Governance
Organisations are living systems that proceed in their action across multiple dimensions on a day-to-day basis. Beyond compliance to codes or good practice and standards, boards of directors’ mission is centred on making the chosen future a reality.
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