Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. Two examples: Let There Be Light. These are just two of hundreds of other examples. Perhaps you’ve read the game-shifting books The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , by C.K. This can be part of your strategy. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Second, management matters.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For example, GE has gone from despoiling the Hudson River to jumpstarting the electric car industry through its commitment to purchase tens of thousands of zero emission vehicles. But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. In a study by Dr. Rajendra S. and What are our Core Competencies?

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Examples of such jobs in the mobile telco realm might include: "being in touch with family and friends while roaming,""choosing the best entertainment and dining opportunities on the go over the weekend" and "becoming more confident and secure in the use of a smartphone."

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

But we've found that leaders can create and sustain stronger business results if they understand — and manage — how employees approach their work every day. Take a classic operations example: If a motor breaks down, a lean-minded operator won't just replace it, but will ask why it broke down.

Banking 15

Banking Prahalad Hamel Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." As we reviewed more than 100 examples, we noticed how many were grandiose but uninspiring.

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." As we reviewed more than 100 examples, we noticed how many were grandiose but uninspiring.

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple, for example, has committed to specific design values and an integrated architecture. Managing people' Loose connections. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple, for example, has committed to specific design values and an integrated architecture. Managing people' Loose connections. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There is a danger that even after dealing with the crisis, managers will continue to give short shrift to their nonmarket and other fundamental corporate choices. Managers often think about strategy in narrow terms, engaging consultants to advise on such questions as divisional structures and the restructuring of reporting lines.

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. That value must be measured across all stakeholders.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12