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. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies. If Canon had followed that advice in the early 1970s, it would have never taken on Xerox.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's why Gary Hamel, management thinker and author, envisioned the MIX as a collaborative platform to both surface bold ideas and inspiring stories and to make progress on a set of make-or-break challenges. It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. Why shouldn’t we be innovative in the work of management just as we do, we in are the products and technology? But tell me a little bit how that project got started and where is it going? So that was premise number one.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. asked Gary Hamel. So your reliance on talent management is critically important.". Be a compassionate contrarian.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better) Technology / Offering (Make different) Strategy/Management (Sell different) Leadership Innovation (Work different) Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time.

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. This will ensure that organizations do more than simply update old ways of doing things with new technology, and find ways to do entirely new things going forward. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? But whereas core competencies are about know-how, core insights are about know-why.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic Core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The optimal amount of each will depend on the specific organization and the situation, and on changes in technologies, customer needs, and the competitive context.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). Technology / Offering (Make different). Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures.

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? .” The fundamental challenge around strategic core competencies today is that too many of them appear designed, debated and deployed from the enterprise-out rather than the customer/client-in. company like Apple.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The European Commission believes that digital business ecosystems are critical to Europe''s future competitive ability, and the key to realizing "this promise of fostering the development of those technologies, systems, applications and services that are critical to achieving higher growth, more and better jobs, and greater social inclusion."

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At a meeting with Gary Hamel, just before the famed management thinker was about to give a speech referencing PfizerWorks at the World Business Forum, Jordan asked if he''d be willing to mention the team by name. Most of them had been with the company for a while, but many didn''t have formal skills in instructional technology and design.

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Team How To Case Study Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

In addition to immediate investing privileges, any player can propose an idea, from a cost saving or efficiency measure ("Savings Bonds") to an extension of the company's current capabilities ("Bow Jones") to a truly disruptive venture into a new business or technology ("SPAZDAQ"). Learn how you can make your company an innovation machine.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

Business Model 85

Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

Business Model 70

Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” By the way — that CEO was my brother, Dr. Loren Hamel. In one of his last presentations as Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs said his company lived at the intersection of “technology” and “liberal arts.” For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

My current reading list includes: - Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel) - Juice (Evan Schwartz) - REWORK (Jason Fried) - Trust Agents (Brogan) - Medici Effect (Johannson) - Delivering Happiness (Hsieh) M [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well as the great list of books.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The first leg is The Management 2.0 Challenge, which launches right now. With the Management 2.0

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McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

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." In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I have a lot of faith in the Millennials' imagination, based partly on my experience at HCL, in the area of technology innovation. I often wonder what would happen if we were to give Gen Y the license to reinvent companies completely. I also know that many senior executives feel threatened by their behavior.

Hamel 14

Hamel Management Bottom-up Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There is a growing body of evidence that shows that organizations with flat structures outperform those with more traditional hierarchies in most situations (see the work of Gary Hamel for a good summary of these results). But while we are seeing an increasing number of firms using flat structures, they are still relatively rare.

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13