Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A leader had asked 30 of his best and the brightest to gather so that he could hear their input on what he perceived as a marketing gap. For example, at last year’s Drucker Forum conference in Vienna, I was part of an executive round table with John Hagel, Julia Kirby, and Hal Gregersen to talk about “the power to innovate.”

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Innovation Drucker Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Peter Drucker said : “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Morsa Images/Getty Images.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” But when multiple words used to refer to different aspects of complex phenomena have overlapping meanings, then “the context [cannot] be relied upon to indicate which meaning is intended [and] the writer or speaker has a moral duty, I would say, to state what he means.” I support our troops as much as the next person.

Strategy 12

Strategy Company Strategic Planning Tactics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Even Tirole betrays this bias. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Even Tirole betrays this bias. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Benchmarking and adopting best practices (a veiled reference to everyone’s favorite punching bag, In Search of Excellence ). But it was far from the final word.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This results in both a “clearer front end” of innovation and better defined opportunities at the market end of the effort. This has been particularly liberating in markets where DSM has historically been relegated to being an OEM supplier of commodity products. And he sees organizational platforms as the natural way to do this.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Drucker Project 8