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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. As a result, it has become Renault's best-selling car across recession-weary European markets as well as in many emerging markets. 3) Tap partners in emerging markets who excel at innovating more with less.

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

performing entrants in any given market space. Ed Muzio is CEO of Group Harmonics and an award-winning three-time author. And managers who continually ask themselves and their teams what that next logical step to be taken is – and then take it, learn from it and repeat the process – are Iterating. Just look for the highest?performing

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

As our economy grows ever more globalized and competition for market share intensifies, companies are under ever-greater pressure to innovate — both to retain market share and to capture new markets in emerging economies and underserved markets.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.