1299 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

Lecturer at Harvard, academic director of the Managing Innovation program at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

author guru of organizational learning and former employee of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

During his long and fruitful career, Warren Bennis has been a student, soldier, scholar, university provost, university president, student of leadership and group dynamics and distinguished professor.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

visiting professor at the London Business School, co-author of “Competing for the Future” with C.K. Prahalad

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

James Bryant Conant Professor Emeritus of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard University

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a private think tank in New Mexico

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

In Europe last year, telecommunications and financial companies joined at a rate of one alliance a month. The trend will go global, because financial content is where the money is.

Content: Article | Authors: Adam Seale, David Osborn, Wouter Rosingh | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Telecommunications

Italy has worked hard to modernize its economy, but still lags in reforming labor markets, financial systems, and education. Will the nation push ahead, or hang on to the status quo?

Content: Article | Author: Richard H.K. Vietor | Source: strategy+business | Subject: International – Europe

Disparaged in the developed world, emerging-market conglomerates are here to stay, provided they adapt to their ever-changing environment. If they do adapt, what role are they likely to play?

Content: Article | Authors: Chipper Boulas, Ian Buchanan, Jorge H. Forteza, Lando Zappei, Zafer Achi | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Strategy

This interesting article (written before the dot.com shakeout) shows some interesting fallacies of thought but also makes some interesting and useful observations and analyses. Discusses three types of coprorations: Godzillas, Titans and Bystanders. Lists the following as features critical to Godzilla companies: Clarity of Focus; The Primacy of the Customer; Zero-Based Organization; Location Irrelevance; Value Chain Shortcuts; Pointcast vs. Broadcast; The CEO as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Competition

Beset by new competitive reality, firms typically start to focus on better asset management (reduction of working capital) as well as in reduction of investment requirements by selective outsourcing. However, vitality in the medium to longer term comes not from asset reduction but from resource leverage.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Outsourcing / BPO, Strategy

While most U.S. companies have passed through their digital infancy, time is running out for critical decisions on mission, leadership, processes, structure, and talent.

Content: Article | Authors: Dianna Sasina, Gary L. Neilson, Gil Irwin, Jill Albrinck | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

The inefficient, tradition-bound, $4 billion trade-book industry is using the Internet to unlock an additional $2 billion-plus.

Editor’s Note: this article claims to identify a number of Internet axioms worth consideration by dot-com startups and traditional retailers alike. I didn’t find those at all persuasive or helpful. What I did find interesting was the detailed description of the publishing industry.

Content: Article | Authors: Joshua L. Wright, Juliana Y. Park, Patrick W. Houston, Timothy M. Laseter | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Publishing

This article examines a wide range of regulatory challenges to the new cyber order, offering the following mini-articles:

EUROPE
Despite Unification, Local Laws Might Take the “E” out of “EU”

ASIA-PACIFIC
In China, Malaysia and Singapore, Freedom and Control Dance a Digital Minuet

UNITED STATES:

A Presidential Campaign Tests the E-business Influence of Silicon Valley and Big Labor

Content: Article | Authors: Doug Garr, Mark Landler, Martin Vander Weyer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, IT / Technology / E-Business

The foundation of the company is no longer the company: It’s the team.

Editor’s Note: I found the discussion of two cultures in startups – hype and craft – to be especially interesting, and accurate from my personal experiences.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The valuation of New Economy players represents a bet by the world’s financial markets that a few companies will leverage the Internet to fundamentally change the competitive game in their industries. It is a gamble that powerful, low-cost business models will emerge; that new businesses will rise from disintermediated value chains, and that some companies will exert such influence that they will generate extraordinary long-term … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Charles E. Lucier, Janet D. Torsilieri | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy

How a half-billion-dollar Seattle outdoor-equipment retailer became a virtual merchandiser.

Content: Case Study | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business | Industry: Retail | Company: Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)

No one ever said enterprise resource planning was easy. Here’s how to make it work – on time and under budget.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward Frey, Joseph Nemec Jr., Scott Buckhout | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Booz·Allen & Hamilton site bills itself as the address where the best ideas in business are debated; incl. quotes, book reviews, articles, forums, etc.

Content: Online Resource | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management