The European Business Review

The European Business Review is a leading business intelligence magazine designed to ensure that its readers make informed decisions. It provides them indispensable insight, current best practices and is their best source of new ideas about what’s important. The European Business Review readers embrace leadership in their jobs and their lives. Their affluence, education, achievements, and wide ranging experience are unparalleled. They are the men and women who shape the world we love, the world we live in.

HOW TO THRIVE IN RADICAL UNCERTAINTY • The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world. But what practical steps can we take to operate effectively in this environment? Perhaps the answer lies in changing how we think about the future?

The art and science of generating insights for creating MORE EFFECTIVE BOARDS • To be effective, a company needs an effective board. Effectiveness reviews are one way to achieve this, but what insights are needed to take full advantage of them? And how can these insights be obtained? Sabine Dembkowski of Better Boards describes the seven hallmarks of effective boards.

CHATGPT GOES (NOT YET) TO HOLLYWOOD • Will ChatGPT solve all of your organisation´s problems? Here are points to consider before you implement the seemingly magical AI tool.

DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAVE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE? • Emotional intelligence (EQ) is once again a topic. As employees find themselves competing with artificial intelligence, EQ is starting to become more relevant than IQ. But is it inevitable that the recent advances in AI and robotics will result in large-scale redundancies?

HOW PRODUCTIVE IS GENERATIVE AI REALLY? • Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The first fundamental question is whether generative AI is truly a game changer, as evidenced by basic metrics such as productivity gains. We find that it is, but that the benefits vary considerably from case to case, suggesting that managers need to do their homework to define their most favourable position with respect to generative AI.

WILL GENERATIVE AI DISRUPT YOUR COMPANY AND YOUR NEED FOR WORKERS? • As Stephan Kudyba explains, generative AI affects companies in different ways.…it all depends on the data that they rely on.

COUNTDOWN TO CYBERSECURITY IN THE QUANTUM ERA: WILL BUSINESSES BE READY IN TIME? • Leaps in quantum technology and hybrid approaches are shortening the time to Q-Day, when adversaries can use quantum computing to break cryptography and threaten data safety for all organizations. It's hard to predict exactly when this will happen. But given the pace of the development of quantum computing, experts agree that companies need to start implementing a post-quantum defense now.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN IT AND SECURITY TEAMS: Four Tips for Better Collaboration • IT and security teams have been at loggerheads with each other for far too long. In the age of digital transformation, it's time the two groups set their differences aside and increase collaboration.

THE ART OF FUTURE DESIGN — PART I: Framing, Assessing, and Identifying Relevant Contexts • Our desire to design a better future for those coming behind must be guided by a new framework that considers the complexity of a yet unknown future and the different forces that influence it.

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WHY MANY MODERN PSYCHOLOGY TEST PUBLISHERS FAIL • In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it really the silver bullet that recruitment-tech start-ups claim? Adrian Furnham advises caution.

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