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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers. Monitor & Co.,

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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What Management 2.0 Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 Everyone Innovates Every Day — Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson. Entangled Talents: a 21st-Century Social Learning System. The finalists have the opportunity to further develop their entries between now and the final deadline of September 5, 2011.

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How Managers Can Promote Healthy Discussions About Race

Harvard Business Review

Tim Wolfe, former president of the University of Missouri system, did not lose his job because of racist incidents on campus. population growth between 2011 and 2050. Preemptive discussions allow managers to direct the conversation in constructive ways and can help prevent future conflicts from spiraling out of control.

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'Woman Up' (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female.

Strategy Driven

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

Through a closed loop system the products are returned and the materials either recycled to make new high value products or put back into the earth through the biosphere. Signing up to Cradle-to-Cradle has forced us to learn how to develop closed loop systems where our products are designed for disassembly after being returned.