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Article23 May, 2022

Learning to live in fragility

Living in an environment of fragility, which shows continuous failures, means knowing how to live with uncertainty and insecurity, as unpredictability becomes a constant. We cannot deny that there has always been uncertainty…

Article22 November, 2021

Power in organisations

In the social sciences, power is the ability of an individual or group of individuals to influence the behaviour of other people or organisations. We often see power as something negative, however, when used appropriately…

Article17 March, 2021

T-persons in a complex world

Complexity is here to stay. In this new environment, what skills will be needed and which people will be best prepared? We constantly hear that we are in an increasingly complex world. We struggle to understand what is…

Article14 December, 2020

Interview with David Martínez

This December we interviewed David Martínez, managing partner of AddVANTE and head of the Strategic Consultancy area. You have been managing a service company with more than 100 professionals for some time now. Do you…

Article26 October, 2020

Financial modelling with Excel

Keys to useful and reliable financial modelling. Spreadsheets, and Excel in particular, are the universally used modelling tool in finance. A financial model is a simplified representation of the economic-financial…

Article22 September, 2020

An asymmetric economic recovery

The economic recovery will not be the same for everyone, so we must analyse what challenges and opportunities are on the horizon and how we should position ourselves. The confinements of the population that have been taking…

Article6 May, 2019

The challenge of education in a world of machines

When we talk about learning, in this context, we mean the ability to identify complex patterns in a sea of data. In reality, it is not the machine that actually learns, it is an algorithm that reviews the data and is able…

Article23 April, 2019

Interview with Joan Jiménez

How important is external financial consulting to growing companies? Financial consulting is of the utmost importance in times of growth, since it is precisely in this phase when imbalances can be generated which, in a later…

Article5 March, 2019

Big data and conflict analysis

The MIT Technology Review's summary of issues on February 12 included an interesting article called "Big Data Warns Today's Peace is More Fragile than We Think". This article begins with an interesting reflection that has…

Article18 March, 2015

The value of example

Consider how often we have heard, and even used the phrase: “lead by example”. There is no denying that this expression is imbued with the truth; indeed, it has been conveyed through popular wisdom and has become one…

Article15 June, 2014

The power of stories

Nowadays we are enthralled by film, television and video games, in the same way theatre and literature enthralled us and continue to do so. However, Homeric epics already included older stories that had been conveyed through…

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