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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
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul. -
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
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
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
Business and society 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"... -
The Chief Strategy Officer
Competitive strategy Magazine Article“What we’ve been doing isn’t in line with the company’s strategy—and we need to fix that.” Someone in your organization has the mandate to walk into any office, speak those words, and spark some sort of transformation. Maybe it’s the CEO and the CEO only. That’s the traditional model, after all—vision, planning, and directives flow […] -
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. -
Seizing Opportunities When Advantages Don’t Last
Strategy Digital ArticleBe quick and decisive when entering, and exiting, a business. -
In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAt mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime. -
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. -
How to Preserve Institutional Knowledge
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFor all the time we spend building knowledge, we should at least try to maintain it.
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Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A). The plant manager has been promoted and students must decide what kind of individual--background,... -
GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent... -
Allianz (D2): The Dresdner Transformation
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum,... -
Maybank: Organisational Transformation Through Human Resources
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details It was January 2018. Nora Abd Manaf, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, Maybank, the largest bank by market capitalisation in Malaysia, is contemplating... -
Zappos.com (A): Bring the Shoe Store to Your Home
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This is the first part of two-case series of Zappos's blue ocean strategic move as an innovative online shoe retailer. Part A focuses on how Zappos reconstructed... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B2)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1). A new plant manager has been hired; the case describes her experience, management philosophy,... -
Organizational Resilience and Change at UMass Memorial
Management Case Study8.95View Details The UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC or UMass) case is an examination of the impact of crisis or high uncertainty events on organizations. As a global... -
Artesanías de Colombia
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Upon becoming General Manager of Artesanías de Colombia (AC) in January 2007, Paola Muñoz faced the challenge of redefining the organization's strategy.... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Competing for the Future
Strategy & Execution Book37.00View Details New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy... -
BMWFilms
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details Jim McDowell, VP of marketing at BMW North America, is debating how to follow up the success of his latest marketing campaign, "BMWFilms." This campaign... -
Kering: Blazing a Trail in Sustainable Luxury
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details People seldom know that the fashion and luxury industry has become an industry with high water pollution, raw material consumption, and greenhouse gas... -
Zappos.com (B): Strategy Powered by Culture and People
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The second part of Zappos case focuses on Zappos's people proposition, which led to high performance and raised barriers to imitation. It demonstrates... -
Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert... -
HP, Inc. Beyond 2021: Pursuing Strategic Renewal for Growth
Management Case Study8.95View Details On November 2, 2021, Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, Inc., ended the first online huddle of the week with his executive leadership team. The day was an historic... -
Jollibee Foods Corp. (A): International Expansion
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Noli Tingzon, newly-appointed international division VP at Jollibee, the Philippines-based hamburger chain, is faced with the challenge of expanding fast... -
Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's...
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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
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul. -
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
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
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
Business and society Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization.