Should compliance systems address specific local and cultural issues? Or, instead, is homogeneity throughout geographies the best solution? These questions are real nightmares for compliance officers that manage multinational companies. On one hand, some variation is imposed by different national legislations; on the other hand, homogeneity in the compliance function is often searched for many…

In this post, we will see what are the elements that made corporations thrive when venturing, based on our research of real cases like Telefónica, Fluidra or Celsa, just to name a few. These factors are important to consider all over the process of launching or reviewing a Corporate Venturing strategy, from its design to its…

Google, Amazon and Netflix: all successful companies with a seemingly infallible ability to choose the right product to develop, at the right time and for the right crowd. How do they manage to stay ahead of the market, to set the trends and give the crowds what they want before they want it? The answer…

Over the years I have come to understand what an economist said more than a century ago: there are no absolute truths in the social sciences (except this, he added). Therefore, I will not say yes or no to benchmarking Social Responsibility. However, answering this question well requires us to talk at length about what…