Mohamed Kande, Julien Courbe, Tom Puthiyamadam, David Allen, Nikki Parham, Lang Davison

What separates the best from the rest? In elite sports, it’s the ability to consistently make the most of all elements affecting performance, from athletes’ fitness, strength, agility, and mindset to the playing conditions and technological sophistication of equipment. Little things count when a fraction of a second makes all the difference.

The same holds true for top-performing companies. Getting some elements right can make you … [ Read more ]

Lang Davison, Wayne Borchardt, Parul Munshi, Pete Brown

Three interrelated dimensions—business ecosystems, managed services partnerships, and new technologies—correlate highly with company outperformance. Top-quintile companies get more revenues from ecosystems, invest more deeply (and strategically) in their relationships with managed services partners, and go further when it comes to cloud, APIs, advanced analytics, AI, and other technologies. These three dimensions set in motion several salutary flywheels: leading companies use technology to lower transaction costs … [ Read more ]

Talent Is Everything

Why you need to reconfigure the company around your people.