Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Case Study: Attention in Manufacturing. Essentially, you should alter your internal and external business models if your goal is for your company to survive and thrive throughout these uncertain months. Let’s consider James, the COO of a mid-size production company that was impacted by the pandemic.

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

McKeown uses several case studies to illustrate his thesis: Blockbuster’s inability to adapt to consumer demands, which led to being outpaced by Netflix. Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Cameron hadn’t realized how difficult it would be for local governments to change the way they did business, even when they had the best of intentions.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

As per Lyon, generative AI will reshape workplace efficiency by offering novel business models and avenues for innovation and growth. But there’s a catch – they require proactive engagement from the existing workforce to adopt AI and transition from competition to essential requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” Ed explained that while he was proud of the growth FreshFace had experienced under his leadership, he was ready for a new challenge.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

We can become so close to our current product line, performance, or business model that we don’t see either the opportunity cost or a new vision for the future. In our book, we use efforts to promote recycling as a case study. Subscribe to Leadership Insights , the blog that transforms. This gap isn’t always clear.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s literally a Harvard Business School case study in business model transformation, but when I think back on it, the impact on the entire organization has been amazing. What’s the key lesson you want aspiring CHROs to take away from your work?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Presidents.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Those successes come from two primary factors: First, Intermountain developed an ability to measure, understand, and feed back to clinicians and clinical leadership detailed clinical variation and outcome data. . … Intermountain has been identified as a low-cost, high-quality provider.1

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Whether you have a small business or you are part of a large organization, you will totally enjoy the book and probably find something that you can apply immediately at work and start making a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. Zipcar did several things to jumpstart its new mobile model, but one of the first actions orchestrated a surprising employee experience that would immediately become a symbol of its new mobile-first mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Rogier’s strategy since 2000 had been to grow through acquisitions and to give a long leash to all the businesses he’d bought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. What happened?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our analysis suggests that big companies should focus instead on what we call "innovation at scale" — that is, achieving repeatable and sustainable organic growth from new products, services and business models that build on the core business. Stay "open" longer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

The data, case studies, and personal anecdotes to this effect abound. But I am referring to something far bigger: large-scale organizational change, such as a company redesigning its entire business model, or accomplishing its most important strategic objectives of the decade, or changing its portfolio of product offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example. It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. And not just me, our whole leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Ross School of Business and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance , has studied organizations that are downsizing or closing and he says that, instead of abandoning best common practices, the most skilled leaders reinforce them. Second, do small experiments with alternative business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Aravind has become a business example of compassion, as well as proof that wise leaders can radically change the world by following their North Star. The case study written about Aravind has been required reading for all Harvard Business School students for over a decade. Aravind now sees 2.7 What is your North Star?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Organizations must acknowledge that any advantages are short-lived, and the thriving business is one that figures out how to persistently reinvent their product lines, and business models. I've written extensively about this, and so have others , so I'll avoid repeating the case studies here.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” Listen to and absorb what senior leadership says about why the reorg is happening. Principles to Remember.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Companies often engage in new activities – customers, markets, products, and business models – serendipitously, in response to external events and lucky breaks. But this also means that business leaders need to make ample time to reflect on the configuration that has emerged. Stuff happens. Why do you do it this way?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. An example of system leadership can be found in the food industry, where an initiative that began with 17 food and agribusiness companies grew into a global network of 500 organizations taking action in 19 countries. Cultivate a shared vision for change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. This five-part series has shared case studies and examples of how the social era affects all areas of the business model: how we create, deliver, and capture value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. While the details of the project they studied have been changed in this story, the essential findings of their research remain.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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