Insights

As a student of the Executive Master in IT Governance and Assurance (aka MITGA), I graduated in June 2020 with a subject that matters to us all: how to find and select the right citizen services from the government to help us? And more importantly, how can governments apply digital technology to their services to facilitate the use of it by citizens? In this blog I would like to give a summary of my research and share my findings with you.

Labor sociologist, HR expert and professor at Antwerp Management School Peggy De Prins clearly indicates the change that is taking place in healthcare, in an interview to Zorgnet. How the current crisis has increased the importance of the healthcare sector and how we can transform the initial anger into pride.

As in many industries, in port logistics Covid 19 provides a burning platform that reinforces digital trends that were already smoldering. In an industry that is not particularly known for its openness to innovation and change, it’s even a welcome deus ex machina. Ports can no longer stay behind, now that supply chains all over the world are undergoing the stress test of the century. With calls from the shipping industry and port stakeholders, the digital transformation of ports is being turbocharged.

In this article we describe and illustrate what we call a network of networks perspective and map the development of a Lead network of the Antwerp Port Authority that governs various organizations and networks in the port community before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Curious about the global systemic problems impacting employees and the labor market? Looking for a blueprint for employers and government entities to build a diverse and inclusive workforce sustainably in the face of these global challenges? And what role do the UN Sustainable Development Goals play in this? Download the 'Sustainablity@Work' report that Randstad released at the end of March 2020. Including the expert insights of Professor Wayne Visser, Professor Integrated Value and Chair of Sustainable Transformation.

In this second whitepaper of our research project ‘The Art of Corporate Venturing’ we shift our focus towards the perspective of established firms.

Discover what type of Individual Sustainability Leader you are: Are you an expert, relying on fact-based arguments; or are you an activist, challenging the status quo and agitating for change? Or are you rather a facilitator, helping communicate to make things happen; or do you act as a catalyst, influencing change by making the convincing business case?

Together with knowledge partner NNOFCARE, Antwerp Management School gains insight into the impact that the office environment can have on the productivity and well-being of the employee. As part of this, an overview was made of the scientific literature on the subject, and an online survey was launched in the autumn of 2018 among more than 1.000 Belgian employees. This white paper reports on three cases from different sectors: consultancy (Deloitte), government (Flemish Community) and financial sector (KBC). In Dutch.

Many of us have been working from home in an effort to slow down the coronavirus and ensure business continuity. At the same time, we've been taking care of our family, distracted by news updates, worried about the future, checking our smartphone 100 times a day. And at the end of the day, we've been tired, but not always satisfied. Because hey, did our work make sense today? Was what we did adequate?

Gabriel García Márquez has already showed us how to keep love in times of cholera, but how can leaders help their employees stay mentally healthy and productive in times of corona?

As extraordinary as our situation has been, in essence it's been about motivation. How do you keep your employees motivated in a context that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous?

Science offers the answer. Decades of research in psychology show that you need to fulfill three fundamental psychological needs to achieve autonomous motivation and psychological well-being (Self-Determination Theory; Deci & Ryan, 2000). In other words, you need three elements (the "ABC needs") to create well-being and productivity.

Let's take a closer look at these three elements.