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Professor Rory McDonald, an expert in disruptive strategy, urges corporate leaders to learn from startups—and preschoolers—as ...
The New Class of Digital Leaders Faced with organizational challenges, more and more companies are hiring an executive to manage their digital transformation.
From steam to sensors and solar: HSB’s tale of reinvention John B. Riggs, CTO and SVP of Applied Technology Solutions at HSB (Hartford Steam Boiler), describes how the company is using technology to ...
A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital Revolution Historian Elin Whitney-Smith looks at previous periods of disruption to understand what companies (and people) are going through today.
A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of strategy+business. Leaders today are well aware that their organization’s culture is an asset that must be managed with purpose and care.
The new fortune at the bottom of the pyramid Profound changes are closing the gap between the world’s poorest consumers and others, offering an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to create — and ...
Creating a strategy that works The most farsighted enterprises have mastered five unconventional practices for building and using distinctive capabilities.
A strategist’s guide to Industry 4.0 Global businesses are about to integrate their operations into a seamless digital whole, and thereby change the world.
Want people to embrace transformation? Allow them to own the change By empowering people to achieve their own goals, leaders can overcome great skepticism—and achieve great results. What worked for ...
Rita Gunther McGrath thinks it’s time for most companies to give up their quest to attain strategy’s holy grail: sustainable competitive advantage. Neither theory nor practice of strategy has kept ...
The Innovation Sandbox To create an impossibly low-cost, high-quality new business model, start by cultivating constraints.
Value-creating chief data officers: Cementing a seat at the top table In PwC’s second Chief Data Officer Study, we found more chief data officers appointed by the world’s leading companies—and ...