A.G. Lafley and Jeffrey Immelt on Innovation
How do you deliver and sustain profitable growth? That’s the key challenge shared by Procter & Gamble’s A.G. Lafley and GE’s Jeffrey Immelt. Writes Fortune‘s Geoff Colvin: “To meet P&G’s growth...
View ArticleDavid Maister: Are We In This Together? The Preconditions For Strategy
Managers build their plans and strategies on the assumption that people in their firm are ready and willing to be team players, acting collectively to create or achieve something in the future. The...
View ArticleThe Quick Fix Postal Solution: Fix Long Waits by Removing Clocks
The US Postal Service has taken customer service to the next level of incompetence. Instead of fixing the problem – the long wait in line – it has decided to work on perception instead: 37,000 post...
View ArticleThe Competitive Advantage Assessment: Can Your Company Compete?
In 4 Sources of Advantage, authors Peter S. Cohan and Barry Unger tell us that technology leaders create success cycles by the way they perform four critical business processes – which they call “the...
View ArticleDumbing Down: A Strategy for Circuit City?
Here’s an interesting article from Knowledge@Wharton: Short-Circuited: Cutting Jobs as Corporate Strategy Apparently, Circuit City announced on March 28 that it cut 3,400 jobs, or 7% of its workforce,...
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Lee Iacocca on Leadership
Lee Iacocca, former Republican? That’s the verdict if you read the excerpt from his new book on leadership: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Iacocca’s book describes the “Nine Cs of Leadership”: –...
View ArticleJohn Hagel: FAST STRATEGY webinar
“What if everything you learned about business strategy is WRONG?” Why, then it’s time to sign-up for John Hagel’s webinar on FAST Strategy presented by StrategyWorld.org. In this webinar John reveals...
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John Hagel: FAST Strategy
When I work with senior executives, they express a real conflict: they know strategy is important (strategy, like IT, does matter) but they have a growing sense that traditional approaches to strategy...
View ArticleCircuit City: Paying for Stupidity
At the beginning of April StrategyWorld pointed out Circuit City’s foolish strategy to fire experienced employees to cut costs. Now it’s time to fire the decisionmakers who came up with this bright...
View Article5 Burning Questions
How Do You Link Innovation Strategy with Execution? Can You Create an Innovative Culture or Simply the Conditions for It to Emerge? Can Customers Lead Breakthrough Innovation? How Do You Leverage...
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