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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

They know more than ever, and you’re under pressure to share more than ever, too – 76% of global executives think it’s a good idea for their CEO to be on social media. The combination of digitization with globalization and consumer demands for personalized products will complicate the usual processes and relationships.

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If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

Harvard Business Review

More and more companies embrace consumers as "co-creation" partners in their innovation efforts, instead of as buyers at the end of a value chain. For example, IBM's co-created product lines account for approximately 20% of its revenue and many of its innovations. It's a shift from keeping people out to letting people in.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Its global scale and distribution makes it a critical service vendor for businesses around the world. FedEx isn’t in the business of optimizing supply chain activities using global benchmarks. Bloomberg realized that the ease of information sharing made innovation in consumption a key form of differentiation in the industry.