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What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them.... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Exploit the Product Life Cycle
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe product life cycle measures the likelihood, character, and timing of competitive and market events. A product strategy that includes some sort of... -
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. -
Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe more uncertain your environment, the greater the opportunity--if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Research at the Wharton School... -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
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,... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting... -
A Short Guide to Building Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills
Developing employees Digital ArticleCritical thinking isn’t an innate skill. It can be learned. -
What's Your Negotiation Strategy?
Communication Magazine ArticleMany people don't tackle negotiations in a proactive way; instead, they simply react to moves the other side makes. While that approach may work in a... -
Performing a Project Premortem
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise.... -
The Five Stages of DEI Maturity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany organizations take big actions in the realm of DEI because of something they see another company do--such as publicly declaring themselves champions...
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Fody Foods: Eating Life to the Fullest
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details FODY Foods Inc. (Fody) was a Canadian-based entrepreneurial manufacturer and marketer of a line of food products designed for people suffering from irritable... -
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... -
Which Way to Go? Jamaica's Economic Stabilization Policy
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Jamaica's relationship with the International Monetary Fund had often been tense. Currently, the country had no agreements with the IMF, and Prime Minister... -
Hurricane Katrina (A): Preparing for 'The Big One' in New Orleans
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting... -
Hurricane Katrina (B): Responding to an 'Ultra-Catastrophe' in New Orleans
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting... -
Saint George Triangle: A Multi-Party Simulation - The Stakeholders - Our Beautiful Island
Leadership & Managing People Case Study3.75View Details Exercise for INS461. -
DigitalThink: Building a Sales Force
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details A broad set of issues faces a young company in the Internet-based training business as it begins to sell its product to corporate customers. Issues include:... -
Change at Whirlpool Corp. (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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,... -
Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices (A): The Debate
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan... -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
Saint George Triangle: A Multi-Party Simulation - The Stakeholders - The Ministry for Domestic Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study3.75View Details Exercise for INS461. -
The Maple Lane Driveway Paving Project
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This brief case narrative tells the story of how a few people managed to wring consensus from over 40 of their neighbors on repaving a shared driveway.... -
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.... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
Strategy & Execution BookIs your business playing it safe--or taking the right risks? If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds... -
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... -
ChoicePoint (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of ChoicePoint, a leading company in the rapidly growing U.S. personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious...
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What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them.... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Exploit the Product Life Cycle
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe product life cycle measures the likelihood, character, and timing of competitive and market events. A product strategy that includes some sort of... -
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.