Executing Strategy

Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.

Companies entering global markets should identify an approach that best suits their business model.

Companies that overlook their employees as sources of strategic insight may find themselves losing talent — and key ideas.

A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.

Accenture’s chief executive on the challenges of leading in a world that’s almost impossible to predict.

High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.

New research finds scenario-based decision making helps increase executives’ strategic flexibility.

Following initial experiments to see what the city’s data would reveal, Amsterdam is now using that information to spur innovations and improve services for citizens, businesses and tourists alike.

Staying competitive may mean exploring new business models — but watch out for internal tensions.

Tech consortia help reduce patent risk, but managers must weigh the pros and cons for innovation.

In an on-demand webinar, Wolfgang Gruel and Frank Piller detail new experiments in personal transportation.

Authors of a new 2016 report explain why competitive advantage from analytics is declining — and what to do about it.

Operational excellence requires cultivating an expectation for continuous improvement in all employees.

Businesses are averting disruption by beating their new competition, joining them, or waiting them out.

“Lawsourcing” campaigns are helping smaller organizations advance legal and public relations goals.

IT outsourcing has emerged as an important strategic tool for acquiring cutting-edge innovation.

How can executives develop their skills as strategists? One way is to learn from the masters.

The increasing popularity of platform strategies masks a difficult truth: They are hard to execute well.

Corporate learning programs should focus on the CEO’s strategic agenda rather than how learning is delivered.

Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.