Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

Technology enables velocity—the speed of getting products to market, the speed of delivery, the speed of analytics, and the list goes on. The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Speed is our friend in almost every case.

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 279

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Most workdays aren’t terribly productive. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. 9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity. When Flatiron Health began work on a new tool for cancer clinics, it naturally began by focusing on doctors and patients, typical stakeholders for their products.

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Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. When risk officers and smart business leaders look at climate this way, they can have productive conversations about how to build more resilient enterprises.

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Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

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Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?" Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow.

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

had any product, service or process innovation between 2006 and 2008. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. We need a much more skilled business leadership than we have currently, capable of creating as well as managing. global competitiveness.

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Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14