Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. This ethos helps to continually open up the field of play at Rite-Solutions to new products, technologies, and directions. The Newport, R.I.-based For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts."

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