The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property
Mark Blaxill and Ralph Eckardt have consulted for companies that are highly efficient, full of hard workers and smart managers—yet barely able to eke out a profit. They’ve also worked in undisciplined, mismanaged companies that generate huge margins year after year. The key to sustainable profits, they realized, was intellectual property. Yet most managers are unable to see the power of IP because they were … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Mark Blaxill, Ralph Eckardt | Subject: Strategy
Organizing the Global Company
Traditional organizational structures, whether designed around functions, products, or geographies; whether centralized or decentralized, can’t cope with the complexity that global operations entail. Matrix arrangements, while explicitly designed to manage complexity, too often end up just adding to it. Managers need new ways to think about molding their international organizations, simply and flexibly, to the needs of their customers and the imperatives of their business … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Mark Blaxill, Xavier Mosquet | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Organizational Behavior