All articles tagged: COVID-19

Dillip Rajakarier, group CEO of Minor International, on why strong cash management, weekly planning, and a focus on local markets have been key to managing through crisis.

The league’s success in Florida shows how the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled by tracking data from digital health devices.

For your organization to reach its new normal, you’ll need to take a human-centric, bottom-up approach.

The prospect of a return to a more normal world in 2021 should spur leaders to learn the lessons of 2020.

Marketing was already at a defining moment, but COVID-19 has hastened the need for transformation.

Revising strategies will help businesses to emerge stronger from COVID-19.

Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.

Managing in a pandemic year

Strategy with a purpose

Jeroen Drost, CEO of SHV Holdings, one of the Netherlands’ largest family-owned businesses, explains how values and a mixed portfolio tip the balance toward optimism.

Companies on both ends of these alliances can fire up revenues more quickly and with less risk than if they try to go it alone.

Facilitating voting supports customers and employees, both of whom increasingly expect businesses to make the world a better place.

With offices and schools closed in many areas, companies can help their employees with children by providing a few key benefits.

As shoppers show how quickly they can adapt to external shocks, retailers will need to radically reconfigure their business models.

Analysis from the Global Innovation Index suggests that R&D spending will hold steady — or even increase — in the post-pandemic world.

Companies must focus on the social factors that can influence employee performance.

COVID-19 is forcing companies to leverage digital experiences rather than rely on traditional face-to-face models of engagement, but the change requires ramping up investments and reimagining operating models.

The way in which ancient societies organized themselves offers clues to how to manage today’s changing workforce.

In a recent PwC survey, CEOs reported plans for their companies to become more digital and flexible — and more employee focused.

Striking a balance between fear and optimism and focusing on efficacy can help leaders speak more clearly about all risks.

Five principles of service design, adapted for the COVID-19 era.

How to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.

Focus on six organizational elements to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.

The pandemic has made planning a bigger challenge, and created a difficult balancing act for leaders.

Obi Ozor, the founder of Kobo360, a data-driven logistics startup based in Nigeria, explains how COVID-19 is accelerating digitization, which in turn is improving food security in Africa.