Next Step Blog
The Robots are Coming: Good News for Employees
While using augmented reality games or tools such as Alexia can be cool, robotics, AI and VR in the workplace are scary for many people. For business leaders chartered with digitalization, this [...]
If Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
With large customer bases, heavy investment in technology such as machine learning, the “Big Four” global technology companies are growing rapidly. A key strategy for Google, Amazon, and Microsoft has been acquisition [...]
Entrepreneurship: Learned or Built Through Experience
Entrepreneurship is everywhere! Traditional business executives fearing disruption or even extinction, need to innovate, transform and become entrepreneurial. Many attend seminars and courses to ‘learn innovation’, while others seek to hire graduates [...]
Digital Business Blues: Creating Success From Change
Due to the constantly changing demands of businesses and consumers — combined with the power and ubiquity of technology —business leaders all around the world, from the Nordics and Europe to the [...]
Digital Change: Commit, Create, Collaborate
To meet rapidly changing customer demands and address global competition, businessleaders must leverage the power of digitalization to transform for growth. This can be scary, exciting or depressing - natural reactions for [...]
Digitalization – Is Your Business Ready?
Through effective use and leverage of technology, service-based business models and enhanced customer experience, organizations such as Adobe, Daimler Benz, Hilton and Schibsted Finn have achieved growth in revenue, profit and market [...]
Digital Revenue Growth: Getting Started Tips
Customers today demand convenience, ease of access and personalized offering from corporations such as GE, Otis Elevator, and many smaller companies. By offering digital services, software interfaces and ‘pay for use’ business models, [...]
Company Growth through Hiring and Developing the Right Sales Leadership
If business growth is key to your success in 2016, the most important decision your company can make is in attracting, selecting and developing the best possible sales leadership. However, for small [...]
Leading Digitalization: Nordic Happiness Pays Off
Digitalization, the use of technology to streamline work processes, access information and improve global productivity can be considered the ‘next big paradigm shift’, impacting the way we all work, live and relate [...]
Leading in Digital World: Keys to Success
Digital transformation means new revenue models, operational efficiency, increased global access and value creation. It also provides new opportunities for engagement and development of people - employees, leaders, partners, and suppliers. For [...]
Digitalization – The Next Step to Success
“Those who don’t change will become extinct”. In 2015, IDC predicted that 30%of the top companies in any industry would be overtaken by a new competitor by 2017. Reality shows this was [...]
Venture Capital: The Dream or Curse?
To many entrepreneurs, a key milestone on the path of success is attracting and securing venture funding. An even greater aspiration is funding from a US investor. However, if you really want [...]
Building an Innovation Culture – Silicon Valley Style
Innovation is one of the most critical contributors to national and global growth. Achievement of sustained success in areas such as Silicon Valley can be attributed to many factors leading to an [...]
Leading in a Digitalized World
The ubiquitous use of technology, from apps such as Uber, artificial intelligence by Facebook through robotics in all […]
Leading in Digital World
Digitalization i.e. the use of technology to reach new customers and improve efficiency is changing all aspects of our work, life, and environment. Success in this new world requires adaptation of leadership [...]
Maximizing Revenue for Business Value
Artic Startup May 3-4, Helsinki Finland Details to be available March 2017. […]