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Can Your Business Concentrate?

Dr Richard Shrapnel PhD ($) - Jun 16, 2021

Can Your Business Concentrate?

The effectiveness of your business rests in its ability to concentrate. That ability to focus on what is most important is vital if your business is to outcompete others in its marketplace.

By Dr Richard Shrapnel PhD
Understanding Skills Scarcity in An External Market — Part 1

IBM Data and AI ($) - Jun 17, 2021

Understanding Skills Scarcity in An External Market — Part 1

What is Skills Scarcity? How to measure it? Where to use it?

By Ying Li

Futurealities Limited ($) - Jun 15, 2021

Incorporating ‘Futures‘ Foresight Into The Process Of Strategic Planning

In the authors’ experience a fact of corporate life is that management all too often ignores future uncertainty. And, even if vaguely uncomfortable with this situation, it is unfamiliar with, or even skeptical about,. …more

By G. Woodling and W. Jones

McKinsey & Company - Jun 16, 2021

Getting tangible about intangibles: The future of growth and productivity?

Companies that master the deployment of intangibles investment will be well positioned to outperform their peers.

By Eric Hazan, Sven Smit, Jonathan Woetzel, Biljana Cvetanovski, Mekala Krishnan, Brian Gregg, Jesko Perrey, and Klemens Hjartar
What comes next? The Resurgence of Innovation Hubs for Business & Industry

YBF Ventures ($) - Jun 16, 2021

What comes next? The Resurgence of Innovation Hubs for Business & Industry

What can you do today that you couldn’t do a year ago?

By YBF Ventures
A new framing for cloud innovation

Deloitte. - Jun 3, 2021

A new framing for cloud innovation

Four potential scenarios for the future of cloud innovation strategy

By Lars Cromley, Diana Kearns-Manolatos, David Linthicum, and Mike Bechtel
The Real Value of Middle Managers

HBR.org ($) - Jun 7, 2021

The Real Value of Middle Managers

Middle managers have long had reputations as ineffective or weak supervisors. But research shows that, in fact, they’re often the people that make an organization run smoothly between hierarchies.

By Zahira Jaser
Measure Value Behaviors And Value Outcomes To Drive Customer Obsession

Forrester - Jun 7, 2021

Measure Value Behaviors And Value Outcomes To Drive Customer Obsession

In my previous blog, we called on all (aspiring) customer-obsessed companies to balance the value of their customers with the value they deliver for their customers. This follow-up blog will introduce the. …more

By Maxie Schmidt
Growth for Both: How US Brands and Retailers Grow the Profit Pool for All

Bain & Company - Jun 10, 2021

Growth for Both: How US Brands and Retailers Grow the Profit Pool for All

Manufacturers and retailers can improve joint business planning to help each other thrive amid mounting challenges in a postpandemic world.

By Brian McRoskey and Karl Zimmermann
How the developer of a .4 billion real estate project plans to track its lofty goals

Fast Company ($) - Jun 10, 2021

How the developer of a $1.4 billion real estate project plans to track its lofty goals

Countless developers make lofty claims about their projects. Dream, the developer of a mixed-used community in Ottawa, plans to back them up.

By Nate Berg
The Global Applicability of Rendanheyi

Lina_HMI ($) - Jun 8, 2021

The Global Applicability of Rendanheyi

As a senior partner at McKinsey & Company (US), the top three management consulting firms in the world and the “Goldman Sachs of the consulting world,” Aaron De Smet is particularly interested. …more

By Lina_HMI

MIT Center for Information Systems Research - May 20, 2021

Build Data Liquidity To Accelerate Data Monetization

Future-ready companies draw on liquid strategic data assets to fuel data monetization.

By Barbara H. Wixom and Gabriele Piccoli
Why process is key for financial institutions’ operational excellence

E&Y - May 26, 2021

Why process is key for financial institutions’ operational excellence

Creating a single view of the business through process enables operational changes needed to succeed in a challenging environment.

By Mike Schank
It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager

HBR.org ($) - May 21, 2021

It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager

As organizations shift toward more distributed, asynchronous workforces, the traditional role of a middle manager — monitoring productivity, optimizing individual performance, etc. — is becoming increasingly redundant. Instead of simply routing information. …more

By Brian Elliott
Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility

McKinsey & Company - May 14, 2021

Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility

The dairy industry faces shifting demand and price pressure. Continuous benchmarking processes can help identify emerging areas of excellence and the possibility of higher-impact improvements.

By Dayan Jayasuriya, Alina Kasumova, Shruti Lal, Ludovic Meilhac, and Andreas Seyfert
How Customer-Led Category Management Can Transform Retail

Bain & Company - May 12, 2021

How Customer-Led Category Management Can Transform Retail

By resetting their commercial models to put customers first, retailers can boost growth and margins.

By Mario Häuptli, Karl Zimmermann, and Marc Antonius
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies

HBR.org ($) - May 12, 2021

A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies

It’s always been challenging to launch new ventures inside an existing business. One way internal startups can overcome some of the disadvantages they face is by seeking out external funding from venture. …more

By Nitin Nohria and Hemant Taneja
The Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making

Medium ($) - May 7, 2021

The Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making

Until a few years ago, the only AI agent capable of strategy making was OpenAI’s multi-agent system. OpenAI Five was capable of playing the complex strategy game Dota2 at superhuman levels. While the OpenAI. …more

By Dr Mark van Rijmenam
High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values

HBR.org ($) - May 11, 2021

High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values

In today’s disruptive marketplace, every organization needs to attract, develop, and retain talent with diverse skills and perspectives. The difference between success and failure will not be in the formulation of job. …more

By Greg Satell and Cathy Windschitl
Every company must be a tech company first and a media company second

Fast Company ($) - May 7, 2021

Every company must be a tech company first and a media company second

To control the fate of your business, resist the temptation to grow dependent on the many intermediaries who’d like to sit between you and your customers.

By Eric Schwartzman

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