What if performance was driven by strategic agility?
How can leaders develop and implement a business strategy that is both suited to market fluctuations and delivers results? Enter strategic agility.
Blitzscaling strategies, the financial blitzkrieg craze
Do you know the story of GoPuff, Gorillas and Getir, among others? Prof. Frédéric Fréry explains how this military doctrine applies to the economic field.
Want your company to change? Forget management consultancies!
Prof. Louis-David Benyayer reflects on an article published by HBR making the case for in-company data.
Agile methods: how can we stop hyper-focusing on clients, and why?
The agile method of the future? Art Thinking is an alternative to traditional client-focused methods. Its application facilitates innovation and allows the user to create the improbable with certainty.
From military strategy to corporate strategy
Prof. Frédéric Fréry explains where the analogy between corporate strategy and military strategy comes from, but that business may have more in common with seduction than war.
Lessons of strategy and management from Game of Thrones
While we wait for the prequel to Game of Thrones, Ghislain Deslandes talks about what managers can learn from the highly popular TV series – or not.
Influencer marketing: why your company can’t live without it and what you can do about it
Michael Haenlein and his co-authors explain why Gen Z’s media consumption patterns have given rise to an industry that is here to stay, and what companies should do about it.
Platform growth strategy: From the octopus to the metaverse?
Prof. Frédéric Fréry comments on research identifying a growth pattern specific to platforms and wonders if their next evolutionary stage will be the metaverse.
Supply-chain attacks and the delicate fabric of our IT ecosystem
How business leaders can bolster cybersecurity in the face of a cyber threat.
Europe brings Poland into line – others may be next
Prof. Vincent Smith discusses a column in The Economist saying ‘Polexit’ is unlikely but missing a few points, including recovery from Covid in Hungary and the impact of the war in Ukraine.
“Entrepreneurship is about more than fundraising”
We spoke to entrepreneur Alexandre Bonetti, CEO and co-founder of French startup Simplébo, about the importance of maintaining an independent approach to entrepreneurship and fundraising.
The pursuit of your Founder-Market Fit
Lesson #1 from my last 30 months of co-founding companies: the business you create must make sense to your Founder-Market Fit (or Human-Market Fit). This will be a determining factor for your company’s success and your personal fulfillment.
