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Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-phase model of multinational corporate planning proves useful for evaluating and improving corporate planning systems. Advances in explicit formulation... -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
Technology & Operations Big IdeaNext-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain,... -
Designing Your Company's Sustainability Report
Global Business Digital ArticleThere's no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization. -
The Discipline of Teams
Teams Magazine ArticleWhat makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t? -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen a company finds itself unable to execute strategy, all too often the first reaction is to redraw the organization chart or tinker with incentives.... -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Chief Strategy Officer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThey're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing... -
Off-Sites that Work
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOf all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the... -
Why Good Companies Go Bad
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen business conditions change, the most successful companies are often the slowest to adapt. To avoid being left behind, executives must understand the true sources of corporate inertia. -
Getting Real About Virtual Commerce
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleA second generation of electronic commerce is emerging, one that will be shaped more by strategy than by experimentation. The battle for competitive advantage will be waged along three dimensions: reach, affiliation, and richness. -
Process Emotions Effectively to Manage Change, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution VideoEmployees will better adapt to major change if given a space to process and sort out their emotions. -
A.G. Lafley on Strategy's Tough Choices
Strategy & Execution VideoProcter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley explains why strategy has to be more than an aspiration. -
5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhy some companies can do it.
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Business Process Reengineering: IT-Enabled Radical Change, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Provides a conceptual framework for understanding business process redesign and change management. -
The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Book39.95View Details In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating... -
Financing the Mozal Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion... -
GE and the Industrial Internet, Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details CEO Jeff Immelt considers whether GE is moving fast enough on its new Industrial Internet initiative. The undertaking includes building out an Industrial... -
Balanced Scorecard Success: The Kaplan-Norton Collection (4 Ebooks)
Strategy & Execution BookThis collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of "The Balanced Scorecard," a revolutionary... -
Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main... -
GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment. In four years,... -
Board Crisis Simulation (BCS)(A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case represents a role-play simulation in which a team of up to 7 participants acts as a board of directors of a privately-owned company. The board... -
Innovation Magic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves?... -
Introduction to Competitive Dynamics: Strategy and Tactics
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of the course Competitive Dynamics: Strategy and Tactics and discusses challenges facing those who wish to use game theory to assist... -
GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership (Multimedia Case)
25.00View Details General Electric is faced with Welch's impending retirement, and the question on many minds is whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's... -
Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing... -
Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A newly appointed country subsidiary manager must decide on action for an operation losing $1 million per month. He is constrained by price controls on... -
Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture... -
Best Buy: The Innovation Initiative, Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study150.00View Details Follows business development manager Toby Nord and his consumer insights team through the three stages of the Innovation Initiative: setting out to gain... -
Microsoft's Vega Project: Developing People and Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details With a focus on Matt MacLellan and his careful development as a project manager under his boss and mentor, Jim Kaplan, the case describes the evolution... -
ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth,... -
Black Duck: Turnaround of a Software Venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The Black Duck case describes the transition of a 14-year-old software start-up that was languishing with outdated technology, low growth, and modest... -
Wal-Mart in 1999
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-phase model of multinational corporate planning proves useful for evaluating and improving corporate planning systems. Advances in explicit formulation... -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
Technology & Operations Big IdeaNext-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain,... -
Designing Your Company's Sustainability Report
Global Business Digital ArticleThere's no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization.