Category Archives: GIBS Knowledge and Information Services

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Why SA needs an AI leader?(FC)

As South Africa was drafting policy papers and convening consultations on how to govern the technology of the future, something quietly extraordinary was happening in Singapore. There, Vivian Balakrishnan, the country’s Foreign Minister, was doing something that seemed at once futuristic and strangely inevitable: he was building an artificial intelligence version of himself. Not a […]
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New GIBS Article: Managing open strategy in public-private sector business model innovation: Closing to open and opening to close as intertemporal dualities By John D. Nicholson, Philip H. Coombes and Adam Lindgreen 

Abstract Approaches to the management of strategic openness in organizations remain poorly understood. This article presents a large-scale qualitative, longitudinal study into a pioneering public-private sector business model innovation in the UK. By synthesizing insights from literatures on open strategy, open innovation, and open business models, the article reveals the practices in establishing a public-private […]
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New GIBS Article: A Legacy of Brokering Entrepreneurial Tendencies: A Case Study By Mollie Painter, Daniel Hjorth and Gideon Pogrund

Abstract This paper explores how entrepreneurial legacies can have broader social impact beyond the identity of founders, the organization that they created, or their own philanthropic activity. Thus, we illustrate how, in the South African context, social entrepreneuring may be understood as the values-driven, relational brokering of societal legacies amongst a variety of entrepreneurs. At […]
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Why women leaders are ditching the old workplace rulebook—and winning because of it(FC)

For many years, women have been told that they needed to “step-up” to lead. You know the narrative—speak more assertively, be less emotional, less sensitive and toughen up. In essence, to “fit the mold.” The trouble is, that mold was never created with them in mind. It was built in an era where leadership equalled […]
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3 things to learn from the attention economy in 2026(FC)

How consumers allocate attention doesn’t stop at the storefront. The same behavioral shifts that define what audiences watch, buy, and care about are reshaping what employees expect, how teams build culture, and what leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Heading into 2026, three forces are defining the attention economy—a market where the scarce resource […]
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9 leaders on what they’d change about managing staff(FC)

Leadership and management lessons aren’t always figured out off the bat. Making some mistakes and realizing that what works for you doesn’t work for everyone else is valuable. It’s impossible to go back and change the past, but you can think through how you manage now and see if it’s still effective. We asked our Fast […]
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This is the biggest risk a company can take in the age of AI(FC)

It feels like a “hit-the-brakes” economy, with warning lights flashing everywhere: inflation pressures, AI disruptions, upside-down business models, and a persistent sense that some new market surprise or geopolitical tempest is waiting around the corner. Given these congested, conflicting signals, the instinct for many business leaders is to slow investment, tighten spending, and wait for more clarity. […]
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What The Best AI Use Cases In Education Have In Common(Forbes)

​In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning World Chess Champion. It was a defining cultural moment, offering proof, at scale, that machines could outperform humans in a complex domain. Nearly three decades later, AI has become far more practical and far more present. In education, institutions are experimenting with generative and agentic AI […]
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When Senior Leaders Lack People Skills, Transformations Fail(HBR)

Mindy,” a chief transformation officer at a growth biotech firm, was six weeks into a transformation when the data told her what her senior team couldn’t see: Engagement scores had dropped 40%. Turnover had doubled. And no one at the executive table had seen it coming. Mindy’s CEO reached out to engage me as a coach for […]
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9 African companies shine in Forbes’ most valuable rankings (BI)

The annual ranking, compiled by Forbes Middle East, evaluates listed companies across 12 stock exchanges in 11 countries using market capitalisation data as of 31 January 2026. The top 100 firms are collectively valued at $3.7 trillion, accounting for roughly 86% of the region’s total market capitalisation of $4.3 trillion. Morocco placed fourth by number […]
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