Entrepreneurship, working online and disruptive innovation: Esade suggestions for International Book Day
To celebrate International Book Day and St George’s Day in Catalonia, Esade suggests several books published over the last year by Esade professors about their findings and opinions on the impact of disruptive innovation in companies, working on line, new types of job insecurity, SDGs as agents for change, communal discernment, and more.
Disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship
Moonshot thinking and disruption are recently coined terms. Disruption is the new normal and rather than being a headache for companies or making them panic, it should kick-start them along the fascinating road towards transformation. Ivan Bofarull, Chief Innovation Officer at Esade, explains this clearly in his book Moonshot Thinking: transforma la innovación disruptiva en una oportunidad. The same concepts are covered by the academic director of Esade’s online programme La Inteligencia Artificial en los Negocios, Jorge Calvo, in his book Viaje al futuro de la empresa: Cómo competir en la era del liderazgo moonshot y las organizaciones exponenciales.
Entrepreneurship, another flagship issue today, prompted the associate professor of marketing at Esade, Franc Carreras, to publish Modelo Mosaico: Cómo emprender sin necesitar inversores, a compilation and sequencing of the steps involved in being an entrepreneur without start-up capital.
Organisations and on-line platforms
Corporate settings have been very stormy in recent years. Globalisation, going digital, artificial intelligence and robotics, new job market sociology and increasing market complexity have all contributed to new uncertain and ambiguous dynamics. Professors Jaap Boonstra and Francisco Loscos of the Esade Department of People Management and Organisation have published El cambio como un juego de interacción estratégica about gaming dynamics to propel change in organisations and ensure good change management.
Anna Ginès, Esade Law School professor and coordinator of the Esade Labour Studies, discusses other sorts of organisations in her book El trabajo en plataformas digitales. Nuevas formas de precariedad laboral. She analyses the characteristics of working with digital platforms, including online (micro)jobs platforms, and suggests safeguards.
SDGs, mysticism and communal discernment
Cambiar el mundo. Los ODS como herramientas de transformación explains why the 2030 Agenda and the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with it are the best response to the global challenges affecting both developing and developed countries and the crucial role of companies that decide to lead change. The authors Àngel Castiñeira, director of the Leadership Chair at Esade, and Àngel Pes, director of the SDG Observatory, analyse the experience of six big companies with the 2030 Agenda, their responses to the current healthcare emergency and how they have incorporated SDGs into their strategy.
From another standpoint, the Jesuit professor in the Esade Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability, Josep F. Mària, shares insights and short quotations from religious and humanist traditions in his book Signes d’una Presència. Along the lines, Josep M. Lozano, professor in the same department, co-authors Discernimiento comunitario apostólico. Textos fundamentales de la Compañía de Jesús, a handbook for understanding and practicing apostolic communal discernment and also an invitation to engage in a practice necessary for a realistic, well-focussed response to the challenges of the historic times in which we live.
