Using New Ways of Working to boost senior talent management
– Alejandra Martínez Boluda, bicg’s General Director. This year I have changed to a new decade, moving closer to what is increasingly known as “senior talent”, although I don’t really feel that the adjective represents me. I am a senior in my organisation because of my expertise, responsibility and years of association with the firm, […]
How to drive innovation in a corporate environment
– Fernando Vallejo, bicg’s General Director Organisations are constantly threatened by change, the emergence of new competitors, abrupt shifts in consumer trends, black swan events (unpredictable, rare events that have a massive impact), and other factors that can turn their financial results upside down. This context, lacking clear blue oceans, demands innovation ecosystems where new […]
bicg 2024 -1999 Looking Backwards
In 1997, a few years before founding bicg in 1999, I was working at the German Fraunhofer IAO institute in Stuttgart when, collaborating in the launch of the Office21 research project, we presented our vision of what we believed would happen in the coming decades in the world of work, which was summarised as follows: […]
Adaptation and Change Management: Strategies for an Era of Uncertainty
– Alejandra Martínez Boluda, bicg’s General Director. What does change entail? In a world marked by unprecedented speed and volatility, the ability to adapt to change is not only desirable, but essential for the survival and prosperity of any organisation. This need to adapt, deeply rooted in human history, is echoed in the words of […]
From CEO to CEO: Bringing people back to the office
– Iñaki Lozano, bicg’s CEO “Before February 2020, in conversations with clients, I remember using one of these charts showing how little progress we had made in Europe in terms of flexibility and remote working in recent years, even though we already had plenty of tools to do so. It was nerve wracking for me […]
The new corporate Headquarters
– Fernando Vallejo, bicg’s General Director “New? I would say evolved rather than new. After all, reinventing the wheel has never really worked, right? The main idea on which we can all agree is the following: ‘Humanity as a whole has come together to question whether the conventional workspace for professionals from the knowledge field […]
Leadership, the great unresolved challenge
– Alejandra Martínez Boluda, bicg’s General Director. For more than 15 years I have been involved in transforming organisations. In this process, after such a long time, I can identify key aspects that I come across time and again when I drive change and transformation, especially when it is cultural. Managers, both top management and […]
