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Beyond Strategy: Lessons Of Execution Excellence

A couple of years ago, during a strategic review process at SunTrust, our analysis of the banking financial services industry revealed something very interesting: Strategy alone did not differentiate high-

The Hard Truth Of Change

No-one reading this article will need any convincing that many businesses today are operating in an environment of rapid, possibly unprecedented, change. The stakes are high. Depending on complexity, 50

Dancing with Gorillas

Today’s most pressing challenge for CEOs in diverse industries is that of coping entrepreneurially with the disruption being wrought by high-velocity technological advancements such as the digitization of economic activity

How to Succeed with Strategy

Think again about competitive advantage.  The arguments about whether competitive advantage is sustainable or even possible is a passionate one.  Roger Martin provides practical advice: “I think a lot of

The Real Lessons Of Disruption

Ever since Clayton Christensen introduced the notion of “disruptive innovation” in The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), CEOs everywhere have found within themselves a desire to be disruptors. Seeing as it is

Cluster Logic

Anker Boye is the charismatic Mayor of Odense, Denmark’s third largest city.  It is a city in transition. “The City of Odense is rethinking itself from a city based on

How To Execute

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez (antonionietorodriguez.com) is the world’s leading champion of project management.  He is Director of the Program Management Office at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines and chair of the Project Management Institute. He

Letter to the CEO: Roger Martin

Dear CEO The most pressing challenge facing the CEOs of today’s corporation is incursion into corporate decision making of data analytics, commonly referred to using the fashionable moniker ‘Big Data.’

Diss Advantage

At the heart of strategy a la Michael Porter is the idea of competitive advantage.  In the halcyon days of the 1960s and 1970s, such advantages always had a hint

In Conversation: Pankaj Ghemawat

When you speak to people about globalization what is the thing that really mystifies them or that they don’t understand? Well, I think right now we’re living in an environment

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