Governments should be up front about the trade-offs made in relaxing lockdown

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School, about his that work helped Coventry to develop its winning bid to become UK City of Culture in 2021. The City of Culture programme, and events such as the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in 2022, are seen as individual successes. However, the UK currently lacks a major events strategy to maximise the benefits of future events. Professor Neelands reveals how a framew...

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jeff Reuer, Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School and the Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. Professor Reuer explains how R&D partnerships are both necessary and can be done without either company exposing their trade secrets to each other. He has researched how knowledge leaks in these sort of partnerships and puts forward four ways in which comp...

Companies have been falling victim to the competency trap for many years, most notably Kodak, which failed to anticipate the switch to digital cameras in time and disappeared from our lives. Jerker Denrell, Professor of Behavioural Science, explains to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes just what the competency trap is and how firms can avoid it, detailing the mindset and steps needed. Read more on how to avoid the competency trap here.

Research by Sotirios Paroutis, Professor of Strategic Management, has found the much-derided PowerPoint is in fact a vital tool in the development of strategy, giving meaning and understanding to the abstract ideas contained in many company's vision. Professor Paroutis tells Core Insights host Trevor Barnes how his Visuals Strategy Framework can help those building a strategy to maximise their presentations with the right visuals and information to bring clarity and agreement. Read more...

Strategy is moving out of the C-suite. More and more companies are involving not just their executives, but employees on the shopfloor and even stakeholders outside of the firm to devise their strategy. Christina Wawarta, Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School and Senior Manager Corporate Strategy at Europe's biggest home appliances manufacturer BSH, explains how open strategy works and its advantages. She also details the tools companies will need to carry out their own open strategy pr...