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Learn the two key characteristics Chinese organizations demonstrated during the coronavirus outbreak. When the Hangzhou Intime department store in China realized customers would not be able to access its brick-and-mortar location during the COVID-19 quarantine, it partnered with Taobao of...

Executives should use increased agility and distributed teams to future-proof the organization. Whether through new product lines, a fully remote workforce or a whole new online business, COVID-19 will continue to change the way organizations operate. But in the chaos...

Do you know how to establish a robust sense and respond organization that is ready to react, with agility and speed, to unforeseen value chain disruptions? IPG, Haute école de gestion Arc (HEG Arc) and VNL Switzerland have developed the...

In the last few months, manufacturers have called some of their fundamental assumptions into question. Nowhere is this more true than with business and operating models. A period of unprecedented disruption has revealed new vulnerabilities, and stressed existing systems to...

As the novel coronavirus has reached Europe, for the first time a global supply chain risk was “created”. The (potential) threats are more serious than in previous incidents. The current concrete massive effects make it clear that no company should...

Getting products from one place to another with as little human contact as possible is becoming an imperative for businesses as retailers, warehouses and transport providers adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to minimize the risk of infections to their...

Plannability is an illusion at a time when uncertainty and uncertainty are normal. Corona shows us that companies and people must develop resilience, which is more than just the will to survive. Is uncertainty the new normality? Whether acute like...

Electric vehicle makers hope to roll out super long-lasting batteries. That raises interesting questions about resources, performance—and a battery’s second act.  Electric vehicles (EVs) have a clear environmental advantage over their gas-guzzling counterparts, but when it comes to longevity, the...

Elements of the agriculture and food industries that have been slow to adopt technology are feeling the most pain from the coronavirus pandemic. A substantial slice of that sector has embraced new technology in recent years, in the form of...

American companies are racing to commercialize technologies that can turn almost any kind of waste into clean hydrogen fuel. A SPRAWLING ZIGGURAT stuffed with 130 million tons of trash cuts into the hills above East Los Angeles, towering over the...