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HUMANITY FIRST! • The Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) Manifesto Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society

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REFINING THE SEARCH FOR EXECUTIVE TALENT IN EUROPE • With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need to get in touch with talented executives who are up to today's challenges is right at the top of many companies' agendas. But are traditional means of executive search adequate for that purpose? Wendy Colvano of Daversa Partners thinks not. Here, she tells us more.

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CONFLICT IN THE WORKPLACE: WE NEED TO TALK • As human beings, we are programmed to respond to conflict with retaliation and retribution. It's a pattern as old as humanity but, as David Liddle of mediation experts The TCM Group affirms, it needn't be that way – as long as we keep talking. Here, he explains the philosophy and raison d'être of his company.

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CAN DIGITAL UPSKILLING HELP SOLVING THE GENDER GAP IN LEADERSHIP?

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Making a Mid-Career Pivot with the Advanced Finance Program

WANT TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS? GET YOUR CULTURE IN GOOD SHAPE • It’s common to refer casually to a company’s “culture”. But what does that really mean anyway and, more importantly, is it really relevant to the success or otherwise of an organisation? As Ian Johnston of Heidrick & Struggles explains, business leaders would be well advised to pay attention to “shaping” their companies’ culture.

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FIVE WAYS CEOs CAN BOOST THE BOTTOM LINE BY IMPROVING HOW THEIR COMPANIES NEGOTIATE

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CLOUD-NATIVE BANKING: EMPOWERING DELIVERY OF GREAT FINANCIAL EXPERIENCES • Digitalisation and the cloud have transformed the way in which financial services are offered. But ensuring that the technology translates into good customer experiences takes a combination of expertise and vision. Here, Eugene Danilkis talks about his company's Mambu SaaS platform, through which banking organisations can offer the full gamut of financial services to their customers.

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HOW SHOULD A BUSINESS SELF-CANNIBALIZE DURING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION? • Engaging in digital transformation is a dilemma. Either the transformation is aggressive enough to scale,- but brings the risk of excessive self-cannibalisation-, or the transformation is designed to be protective, but runs the risk to be too narrow, with business being aggressively cannibalized by disruptive attackers. If, at current, both sides win, intentional cannibalization can become a winning strategy if incumbents pick the right bundle among five proven practices.

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DETER, DETECT, DELAY: Thwarting the digital intruders

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HOW EUROPEAN COMPANIES CAN USE THE CLOUD TO INCREASE THEIR COMPETITIVENESS • Most European business leaders think of cloud as shared, public data centers to host workloads for cost savings — and don’t use it enough for bigger business goals. Recognizing the cloud as a continuum of opportunities can put European companies on a competitive footing with their global peers.

FIGURE 1 Cloud and innovation with the Cloud Continuum

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