Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I would later become the first minister he hired for his government and a very close collaborator in his core team. Build a team with a fresh perspective. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

The team, including 17-year-old Matt Moniz, launched a grassroots aid effort, Nepal Relief: Building a Path to Recovery , which has delivered big results in a surprisingly short time. Through asking questions and listening to experts, Matt’s team picked up insights that informed the aid strategy they eventually landed on. One village?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

The team, including 17-year-old Matt Moniz, launched a grassroots aid effort, Nepal Relief: Building a Path to Recovery , which has delivered big results in a surprisingly short time. Through asking questions and listening to experts, Matt’s team picked up insights that informed the aid strategy they eventually landed on. One village?

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I would later become the first minister he hired for his government and a very close collaborator in his core team. Our team knew from the start we would be working in an extremely high turbulence environment. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

How could a career that ranged from working with royalty to Fortune 500 brands and startups not pique the curiosity of any hiring managers? I applied everything I knew about marketing and storytelling to build a campaign that would show Silicon Valley companies the kind of value I would bring to their teams.

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Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The more test events completed, the better prepared organizers will be to manage spectators' security come Games-time. The leaders behind the upcoming Olympic Games have encouraged individual teams to innovate across functions. Challenge your team to align and share goals. This is no unbudgeted ego statement, but good business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Projects were identified as the best management structure to break up silos and encourage teams to work transversally (end-to-end) in the organization. Marketing teams will need to promote the long-term benefits of the projects sold by the organization. It set out to simplify this convoluted and archaic organization structure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. For an Uber, Airbnb , Weibo, Google, 23andMe and most strategically-situated post-industrial disruptors, managing regulatory combat quickly assumes primacy over managing either innovation investment or customer satisfaction. These phenomena are global.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

The team created a mockup of the idea and showed it to consumers. In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. We recently developed a novel idea for a consumer electronics company. How could the company tell if it would be worth it? Hold a "sign-up seminar."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. In sum, innovation tourism is not really tourism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. In the initial three areas of coffee, tea, and tourism, that effort has advanced quite far now. Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. What are the bottlenecks?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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