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March 10, 2017

By Remco Lenstra

Design Thinking Incorporated

Strategy & Innovation

"If you rewind through design history, the most thrilling periods are the ones of the greatest change, when designers interpreted shifts in science, technology, behavior and politics for the rest of us. Take the explosion of innovation during the 1920's „machine age" and the 1960's „space

Expertise

March 3, 2017

By Steven De Haes

The impact of Enterprise Governance of IT in organizations

Digital & IT

With the digital revolution, companies are investing more and more in information technology (IT). These investments are expected to contribute to the creation of increased and/or new company value. To effectively realize this expected value creation, new ways of managing these digital

Expertise Research

March 1, 2017

By Eva Geluk

Sustainable change that works

Sustainable Transformation

Recently, the consultancy firm Bain & Company published their report Achieving breakthrough results in sustainability. One mind-boggling fact in the report is that the percentage of successful change projects is put at 2 percent. That’s right, 2 percent. A mere two percent of the

Expertise

March 1, 2017

By Steffi Weil

Lobbying and Foreign Interest in Chinese Politics

Strategy & Innovation

China and the East-Asian market have been widely discussed in the business world for a long while. The increasing importance of the New Silk Route project gives further momentum to the debate. But how do you do that? Which parameters should you pay attention to? How do you handle cultural

Expertise

February 28, 2017

By Antwerp Management School

How do leaders stay balanced? The importance of reflection and introspection

Human Resources

In an article for the newspaper De Morgen, Jesse Segers turns the spotlight on CEOs. To avoid the pitfalls of power, according to him, a certain introspection is necessary. You need be able to get away and get some perspective on your work where you can think about your power and position

Expertise

January 26, 2017

By Antwerp Management School

Is there a Real Estate Market for it?

Real Estate

Real Estate Valuation (Taxatieleer) is taught by Program Manager Bert De Vos (i.a.). He begins his first class by making attendees distinctly uncomfortable. He shows them location photographs and asks them “is there a real estate market for this?”. “Many real estate professionals tend to

Expertise Research

January 20, 2017

By Philip Huysmans

Normalized Systems and innovation

Digital & IT

Fine-grained modularity in a system is the way to master the complexity that emerges when striving for evolvability in a system. Normalized Systems Theory (NST) explains how modularity of a system should be designed in order to establish evolvability, to accommodate change and therefore

Expertise

January 18, 2017

By Lars Moratis

Sustainability reporting: quo vadis?

Sustainable Transformation

It is doubted by few that reporting on finance only provides a restricted image of what goes on within companies. Non-financial information is consequently getting increasingly important when assessing the performance of companies, their potential and the risk profiles they come with.

Expertise Interview

January 6, 2017

By Antwerp Management School

Patagonia case study: long-term values over short-term gains

Sustainable Transformation

Patagonia's Mission Statement: Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. When asked for an inspirational, sustainable company, Lars Moratis, Director of Knowledge Community Corporate Social