Aalto Leaders' Insight

The Low-hanging Fruits of Data Analytics Are Ripe for HarvestThe world’s data doubles every two years. Massive data resources have led to considerable hype around data analytics, and demand for data science skil...

More Functional Public Service with Service Design—Helsinki Central Library Oodi as a Shining ExampleMore functional services can be achieved by using service design in public administration, whilst simultaneously bringing about financial savings. Use...

Does Your Pricing Match Your Strategy?Marco Bertini, ESADE claims that pricing is an area where the level of sophistication does not match the importance of the topic.

Ethical Blindness Explains Why Good People Do Bad ThingsProfessor Guido Palazzo is an expert on the dark side of the force – why good people do bad things. Aalto Leaders’ Insight spoke with Palazzo about a ...

The Importance of a Proactive Approach for Security DirectorsSecurity Director of the Year 2019 Jari Pirhonen believes that professionals from a range of skills backgrounds are what the security industry needs. ...

Column: Constraints Drive CreativityThe counter-intuitive finding in multiple studies looking at creativity and idea development is that constrained settings create more novel solutions ...

Column: The Meaning of McDonald's"If you don't study hard now, you'll end up working at McDonald's." This is how my daughter's class was encouraged during the first years of school. T...

How to Communicate About Big Changes to Personnel? – HR Director AnswersWhat lies at the heart of HR now that so many of the processes are automated? Journalist Reetta Räty jumped on a train with Kirsi Nuotto from VTT Tech...

Future of Meat – Transformation to Plant-based Diet Offers Huge Potential to the Food SectorThe game is on! An estimated 70 per cent of the world’s population plans to consume less meat or quit eating it altogether. Big change offers huge po...

Can anyone be a leader or grow into one?Just like any other work, leadership can be learned. For insight on transformation, take  a look at the taxi, cell phone and hotel  industries. ”They ...

Start, change, reorganization – different stages demand different types of leadershipResearchers say there is no one type of leadership personality, but it is a question of the right type of leadership for different situations. That is...

How to choose the best possible leader for different situations?Annukka Oksanen interviewed talent management and recruitment experts to find out. The message was clear: it makes more sense to focus on future poten...