June 8, 2016

The mission of Antwerp Management School is based on three pillars: self-awareness, a global perspective, and societal consciousness. For this last pillar, every class at AMS needs to organize a social community project every year, as part of the Leadership and Career Development Track.

May 25, 2016

By Axel Van der Donk

Alumni stories, PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION

Students & Alumni Strategy & Innovation

I graduated from the Master Innovation Entrepreneurship (MIE) program in 2015. My business partner, another MIE grad, and I are one year into the financially disadvantaged life of an entrepreneur, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We are currently reaching the end of a phase that can

May 23, 2016

By Remco Lenstra

Watch out for these 4 pitfalls for innovation in SMEs

Strategy & Innovation

Is your SME in the doldrums? You are longing for innovation, but none of your efforts seem to lead anywhere? To bring about innovation in an SME is not exactly easy, but it is possible you are unknowingly complicating things. Maybe you have fallen prey to one of these common pitfalls.

May 17, 2016

By Jeroen De Flander

Strategy implementation for the HR community

Human Resources

The next few months, Prof. Ans De Vos engages in dialogue with strategy implementation expert Jeroen De Flander. He is the chairman of the Institute for Strategy Execution and travels around the globe to teach managers the necessary strategy implementation skills.

April 29, 2016

By Annick Schramme

Impact and Added Value of Fashion in Antwerp – Part 1

Strategy & Innovation

The Economic impact of the fashion industry on the city of Antwerp The glamour, excitement and creativity of the world of fashion have always appealed to the imagination. But the fashion industry comprises more aspects than solely the designing process and fashion shows. Worldwide more

April 20, 2016

By Maka De Lameillieure

This is a human world - Part II

Strategy & Innovation

Small changes with a huge influence Behavioral changes (of your customers, contributors, supplier) are accomplished most effectively with small changes than shock interventions. In the book The Big Smalli, Robert Cialdini and his colleagues Steve J. Martin and Noah J. Goldstein see how

April 14, 2016

By Ans De Vos

4 Key dimensions of career management

Human Resources

Responsibility for career management is gradually shifting from the organization to the individual. Nevertheless, it is interesting to look at the benefits of managing careers from the organization’s perspective. To which extent can firm performance be explained or improved by

April 13, 2016

By Guus de Mari

3 tips for stepping into the Digital Era

Digital & IT

We live in a digital world, we pay with plastic in the store or transfer money through the Internet. We have not payed for vacations and plane tickets in a store for years, we do that online now. The hotel business faces competition from enterprises like AirBnB and offering taxi services

March 24, 2016

By Koen Marichal

Shared Leadership as strategy of the future

Human Resources

How do I gain leadership within my organization? It seems to be a simple question, yet at the same time it's like opening Pandora's box. Leadership is one of the most researched topics in management literature, which illustrates the importance as well as the illusiveness of it. The

March 10, 2016

By Eddy Laveren

Why only one in five mergers and acquisition transactions succeeds

Strategy & Innovation

After the financial crisis, Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) transactions are finally on the rise again. Yet only for one in five cases do the negotiations turn out to be a successful transaction. We – Antwerp Management School, in association with the University of Antwerp, lawyer firm

February 11, 2016

By Geert Scheipers

What is organizational performance management

Strategy & Innovation

It is not a simple task to give direction and reach strategic decisions that are carried through by all parties involved. This is especially the case in large organizations as well as smaller businesses. On top of this, chosen strategies often suffer a loss in traction over time and are

February 2, 2015

By Antwerp Management School

The power of LEGO®

Strategy & Innovation

Today organizations are more and more confronted with wicked problems: complex problems of which the thesis statement alters regularly or whereby many different stakeholders are involved. Visualization techniques help to make that sort of problems insightful and solve them. Or why you

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4 Key dimensions of career management

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Shared Leadership as strategy of the future

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What is organizational performance management

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