What Italian espresso bars and their cheap coffee can teach businesses about keeping things simple: Do just one thing, and do it very well...
Analysis
The case for institutionalising long-term thinking in government is growing, but the results of experiments carried out so far are mixed...
Hungary’s election result is a gift for investors, if the new government can deliver the swift reform that the European Union wants...
The Last Word: Work is no longer about location. Stop wasting time on debating where people work, and start deciding what human work is for...
Inside Lithuania’s bold push to build entrepreneurs before they graduate, a model that could redefine how we prepare for the future of work...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. ...
Tajikistan’s IT sector barely exists. Recent digital governance initiatives at least suggest some ambition, but progress is painfully...
Armenia’s economy is thriving as it loosens ties with Russia and embraces the European Union. That is almost certainly not a...
The Last Word: Readiness beats past performance. It is still considered good management to hit your numbers. Revenue targets met, costs...
Hungary’s exhausted growth model may depend on a change of government to get moving again. For a country that built its modern economic...
Europe throws billions at its defence sector. Ukraine’s kitchen-table innovators are already cashing in. Great news for Ukrainian...
The Last Word: When predictability becomes the product. In a hall full of global executives in Beijing last week, the pitch was not what it...
With ICT exports at 5.02 per cent of GDP and value added at 8.51 per cent, Serbia has built the Balkans’ most export-oriented tech...