Jim Andrew and Hal Sirkin are Senior Partners and Managing Directors of The Boston Consulting Group and coauthors of “Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation”, a book that offers a new way to think about and manage innovation that will dramatically improve the odds of success. If you read recent cover stories in […]
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In Innovation, Apple Leads… But the Game’s Not Over. This HBR article looks at how to be a long-term innovator
Posted on 17 January 2009.
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Strategy’s strategists: Putting strategy into strategic planning
Posted on 16 January 2009.
Richard Rumelt, a giant in the field of strategic planning, explains why it often isn’t strategic at all. He also sounds off on diversification, how companies can capitalize on a changing business environment, managing for share prices, and the role of the CEO. Click here to read the interview with Richard Rumelt
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There are two types of complexity. Understanding where to intervene is the key to managing them to create value – Cracking the Complexity Code
Posted on 15 January 2009.
Most businesspeople focus primarily on institutional complexity and thus fail to see that some forms of complexity, if managed well, can create value and do not have to generate excessive complexity at the individual level. Institutional complexity can enhance organisational resilience and enable companies to take on new strategic opportunities. ‘Cracking the Complexity Code’, an […]
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What Are Your Customers Really Worth?
Posted on 15 January 2009.
The book titled, “Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run” (Wharton School Publishing) by Sunil Gupta and Donald R. Lehmann, offers practical examples and case studies to help companies estimate the lifetime value of their customers. That information, the authors suggest, can then be used […]
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Eight emerging trends are transforming many markets and businesses. Executives should learn to shape the outcome rather than just react to it – a McKinsey & Company article and Podcast
Posted on 14 January 2009.
Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business. McKinseys has identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years in the article, “Eight business technology trends to watch”. These trends fall within three […]
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Bringing Best Practice to China – As the country merges into the world economy, best practice in China will become best practice globally
Posted on 10 January 2009.
Unique practices developed to enter the market will no longer suffice in China’s increasingly competitive environment, particularly if Chinese operations are held to lower performance standards. Instead, multinationals must lead with their strength: world-class processes honed over many years in established markets and adapted to Chinese realities. Click here to read the full article
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