The future will be rocky for auto companies unable to improve returns on capital.

Whatever the specific situation, working with a bad listener is frustrating and counter-productive.

Organisations face a radically shifting context for the workforce, the workplace, and the world of work.

Academic studies have shown that there are proven benefits to developing a caring attitude.

Following Brexit, the British government and the E.U.

PWC just released its predictions for the most powerful economies in the world by 2030.The report, titled "The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?" ranked 32 countries by their projected global gross domestic product by purchasing power parity.

What are the benefits of working flexibly? Many are well documented - a healthier lifestyle, avoiding the commute, a better work/life balance.

Very often the driver behind change is reducing costs.

How to link where your company is headed with what it does best.These ten principles - derived from our experience working with global business - can help you build strong links between strategy and execution now and in the years to come.

Europe is ripe for a FinTech explosion as Millennials enter the workforce and demand convenience, as well as nimble and personalised services.

The uncertainty advantage is an approach in which corporate leaders leverage disruptive change by making targeted, bold moves toward new market opportunities.

The UK recorded a record number of start ups in 2016, according to StartUp Britain.

Early and ongoing engagement will help gain the confidence of business leaders in data quality .

Many companies want to establish a culture of innovation, one that will encourage employees to take risks that lead to breakthrough products.

However, co-creation also requires trust.

Over the past few decades our world has lived through a revolution – created by the birth of the world wide web and the rapid development of digital technology.

This report provides a government-specific perspective on Deloitte’s 2017 technology trends report.

So how do you build trust? Essie Rewane-Adejare from Toastmasters International suggests eight ways to gain your audience’s trust during a sales presentation: 1) Demonstrate your personal credibility Know the product or service, and your company, inside out.

Jean Gamester from Semaphora believes that what is most important is that you make sure that those that you lead feel they are being kept informed and that they have a say too.

A serious disease afflicting business writing these days is nounitis, the excessive use of nouns.

Big data enables companies to more precisely target consumers.

Psychometric testing has become a powerful aid for managers in recent years.

An important concept in English is register, a scale of the formality of writing.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just hype: it is a reality.

Developing future leaders isn’t just about putting them through programs.

Who would want to be a leader nowadays? Despite all the uncertainty in the world, from flash crashes in the markets to the fall-out of Brexit and the election of Trump – not to mention the mind-bending leaps taken by technology every other week – there’s a lot expected of leaders.

Capgemini reports major 2017 trends in the capital markets industry which revolve around the impact of evolving regulations and the ramifications of new emerging technologies like Blockchain & robotic process automation (RPA) on market participants.

We’ve anticipated it for years, and now it’s becoming reality: Emerging technologies are finally able to emulate and augment the power of the human brain.

Like many people I’m excited and inspired by the possibilities the enormous amount of data we now have opens up.

By 2030 the world’s population is projected to rise by more than 1 billion, bringing the total to over eight billion.

Gamification is the go-to idea today for making consumers love brands, buy products, and stay loyal.

January is a great time to take stock of what's going on in the business and technology worlds, a great time for planning, and a really great time for articles full of futuristic prognostications.

In the digital age, all roads lead to data.

Over 600 innovation professionals recently descended on Copenhagen for the Innovation Roundtable Summit.

As blockchain enters the mainstream and proves its ability to enable digital trust, improve operational efficiencies, redefine the customer experience and improve business resiliency, companies in the retirement industry are experimenting with simple use cases such as contract management and more innovative ways to engage participants and create new business models.

RDM Group has opened a technical office at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and smart things promise an intelligent future.

This is after research of 1,000 UK adults undertaken by the charity found that being at work is the most common situation in which people feel their happiness is decreased – with a fifth of people stating this.

It’s the ability to make your point in as few words as possible.

As we start a brand new year, I, like many other people, have started thinking about what 2017 will mean for businesses looking to create world-class customer experiences.

Digital has already delivered a major blow to businesses slow to respond.

Consumers are growing increasingly frustrated with the in-store shopping experience that offers little of the convenience of online counterparts, with four in ten claiming shopping in-store is a chore and a third saying they would rather be at home washing the dishes.

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution gets under way, intelligent digital technologies are becoming more responsive, more human.

But parts of the strategy consulting process could be automated. A key aspect of what consulting firms have always done is gather data, their advantage over clients being that they: are objective (internal people may be tempted to pick and choose the data that suits their agenda); may bring a proprietary approach to data gathering—a framework that allows them to collate the data more effectively and/or efficiently; may have benchmarking data that allows them to gauge the significance of what they find; can adapt their approach to suit a client’s unique circumstances; generate better, more thoughtful insights.

The European automotive industry invests close to €45 billion into R&D annually, a large percentage of which is on fuel-efficiency technology.

It’s the ability to make your point in as few words as possible.

Roughly 177,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas next week for the Consumer Electronics Show.John Curran, managing director for communications, media, and tech at Accenture, has come up with his annual predictions of the prevailing themes.

Companies can all too easily become focused on delivering large-scale, three-year plans (e.g.

A recent study by Accenture Security uncovered a disconnection between how organisations perceive cyber threats and the actual reality of the situation.

The manufacturing industry is undergoing one of its most significant periods of disruption.