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.

CYBERSECURITY: The future of passwords and passwordless • Digital security remains a core concern for businesses, as the scary headlines continue to shriek of stolen and encrypted data, phishing, breaches, and intrusions. One company in the vanguard of defensive solutions against these menaces is Bitwarden, with its flagship password manager. Here, CEO Michael Crandell discusses this and other leading-edge initiatives from the company.

WHAT MAKES A BUSINESS A MASTERPIECE? • No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in which we, as individuals, approach the various activities in which we are involved. One way of acknowledging and consciously taking advantage of this is to find inspiration in art.

Future ready transformations PAY OFF BUT OFTEN STALL • Given the ubiquity of the expression “digital transformation”, we might assume that we all know what it is, and what needs to be done to make it happen successfully. Sadly, the evidence does not support such confidence. Here are some key recommendations for avoiding the pitfalls in the process.

A BRIEF PRIMER TO QUANTUM COMPUTING AND SENSING • If you’ve heard of quantum computing, but, amid the hype and hullabaloo of all the other “latest things” in the tech sphere, you’re a little hazy about what the term means and, equally importantly, whether you should be sitting up and taking more notice of it… simply read on!

ACCELERATING EUROPE’S PATH TO REINVENTION • Despite the challenging business environment, European executives are optimistic about their organization’s future growth. By embracing Total Enterprise Reinvention, European companies can exceed their goals and thrive amid the economic headwinds.

ChatGPT: USHERING IN THE AGE OF CREATIVITY • ChatGPT represents a watershed moment for global education and society. By providing knowledge workers with a well-written first draft, ChatGPT might point the way to the Age of Creativity.

CHATPOCALYPSE NOW • We’re still in the early stages of discovering ChatGPT’s potential. The software itself is in a learning phase, too, as it absorbs the feedback of its swelling millions of users into its own “intelligence”. But are numbers the best guarantee of quality - or are we witnessing the dawn of the age of the Dunning-Kruger effect in hyperdrive?

DISRUPTING HIGHER EDUCATION - CHATGPT AND GENERATIVE AI • The way we assess learning and credential talent is disrupted by ChatGPT. It is forcing higher education to strip down and rebuild better. Dr Nancy Gleason provides four key areas for significant changes: adapting outdated workload calculations, offering flexible timetabling, instating grade-free learning; and socialising ourselves to shifting ethics. Governments and industry need to work together to fund these changes to ensure students have equal access and the economy has the talent it needs. If higher education does not make significant changes, then an alternative model of credentialing will replace it.

AI in FINLAND: From relatable stories towards AI ecosystems • Finland is experiencing dynamic growth in the number of companies that are developing and / or using artificial intelligence (AI) in their business. This is illustrated by comparing the total of 947 such companies in 2019 with only 358 in 2017. Furthermore, AI-focused...