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How To Know When To Kill Off Corporate Activities

The Horizons Tracker

A central part of Vijay Govindarajan’s Three Box System is the middle box, which urges organizations to stop doing activities that are not producing results. These so-called zombie activities tend to suck in resources that could be better deployed elsewhere.

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The Quest for Global Dominance:: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage, Second Edition Anil Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang Jossey-Bass (2008 How to establish global presence, then achieve and sustain a competitive advantage As Jeffrey Garten explains in the Foreword, this Second Edition offers “not only updates, (..)

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements. It is in nonlinear—nonconforming, breakthrough—change. But the future is built in the now and that’s the problem. What should we be doing now to insure we have a future?

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Running a Permanent Campaign for Innovation

Mills Scofield

We started with How Stella Saved the Farm by Chris Trimble and VG Govindarajan – a post Animal-Farm parable about barnyard business mates with a deadly serious intent – that can get 10 people in an organization talking about how they can innovate right where they are. EVEN CONGRESS! We make it – life- better.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. health-care system is striving to get to.” system to innovate.” In every one of these cases, global competition changed the game forever. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. David Nour – David has developed leaders in global companies such as Disney, Cisco Systems, Deloitte Consulting, IBM. Former President, Amherst College.