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Blue, Blue Oceans

The strategy battle rumbles on. Those in search of strategic inspiration are faced with two alternatives. Either, they start with their industry as the basic strategic building block (Michael Porter’s

Thinkers50 in 50 Seconds: David Nour

David Nour has pioneered the phenomenon that relationships are the greatest off balance sheet asset any organizations possess, large and small, public and private. His most recent book, Co-Create, focuses

Drucker in China

In the 1980s the name of the great management thinker, Peter Drucker, was unknown in China. However, a 30-year-old director accidentally got his hands on a book written by Drucker.

Discovering the World

In 1984, the Chinese company Haier signed a refrigerator manufacturing technology contract with the German company Liebherr.  Later in that year, Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin left China for the first

Book cover of 'What We Mean When We Talk About Innovation' by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.

The Birth of an Idea

Innovation is an often messy, political, fuzzy business.  Here is the story of a neat idea which was one of the most popular management concepts of the 1980s and beyond:

A Letter to Makers

Although technical development is the key factor in increasing the prosperity of the human race, it is the development of human minds that has driven all major leaps in civilization.

Haier’s 1,000 Day Revolution

In the late 1990s, along with Huawei and Lenovo, after 20 years of development, the Chinese company Haier had developed into a large international company, but had never achieved a

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