The Congruence Model of an Organization
Overcoming the Obstacles to CEO Succession Planning
To avoid politics that lurk in the shadows, get the issues out in the open with a disciplined succession process.
Content: Article | Authors: Carlos Rivero, Mark Nadler, Richard Hossack, Steve Krupp | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Succession Planning
Now Comes the Hard Part: Strategy Execution
Bridging the gap between vision and action.
Content: Article | Author: Mark Nadler | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Discovering and Creating Tomorrow’s Customers
It’s a 100-segment world. How can you stay a step ahead?
Content: Article | Author: Adrian J. Slywotzky | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Innovation, Strategy
Mark Nadler
Any genuine shift in strategy implies a change in emphasis; it might involve different customers or markets, new technologies or business processes, unfamiliar leadership styles or management techniques. This requires that leaders learn new skills and master new approaches—a big challenge in itself. Even more problematic, a new strategy undermines the organization’s political profile in very tangible ways. It alters priorities, resource allocations, and reporting … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Mark Nadler | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Busting the Myths About Emerging Markets
False assumptions can trip up foreign expansion plans.
Content: Article | Authors: Kristy Sundjaja, Radu Auf der Heyde | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subject: International
Designing CEO and COO Roles
Where both CEO and COO roles are employed, an effective working relationship between the two executives is increasingly critical to successful governance. This paper describes design options for structuring this CEO-COO working relationship. We begin with a taxonomy of corporate leadership roles and related behaviors that together define the collective executive team leadership responsibilities of the CEO and COO. We then present some alternative models … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subject: Leadership
Teamwork at the Top: Designing and Leading Effective Executive Teams
Today’s CEOs are increasingly relying on executive teams, which raises some important questions: How do you transform a collection of individuals into a highly functioning team? What makes an executive team so different from the countless other teams that populate every organization? What kinds of work should the team concentrate on? And what role should the CEO play, as both team leader and participant? Executive … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Leadership, Management
The Upside of Strategic Risk
How Coach learned to know, not guess, what customers want.
Content: Case Study | Author: Adrian J. Slywotzky | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Customer Related, Management, Marketing / Sales | Company: Coach
Unlocking the Value of a Technology Portfolio
General managers in charge of new product launches may face a number of vexing questions: Why were we beaten in the market by competitors with inferior technology? Why are our newly commercialized technologies producing weaker than expected financial results? Why do our technology successes seem increasingly fleeting?
The classic dynamic at work here is the failure to jointly design the product and the business. Successful businesses … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Booth, Ashley Hubka, Brian Rixner | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subject: Management