Leading Change
The Best of This Week
Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.
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Developing Strategy
Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy
Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.
Leading Change
How to Reduce the Risk of Colliding Change Initiatives
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
Automation
How to Establish an Automation Center of Excellence
A dedicated team can help maximize the utility — and competitive advantage — of automation systems.
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Identifying the right change strategy, boosting stagnated skills, and managing demand fluctuations.
Developing Strategy
Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’
Companies have more options than they realize when choosing a strategy for responding to a changing environment.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Interactive: The Workforce Ecosystem Perspective
Use this dashboard to benchmark your organization’s readiness to adopt a workforce ecosystem approach.
Supply Chains & Logistics
The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers
Understanding patterns of demand across your customer base can help smooth out costly spikes and slumps.
Global Strategy
How COVID-19 Will Change the Geography of Competition
Three trends are reshaping global strategy and operations for the world’s largest companies.
Boards & Corporate Governance
How to Bring ESG Into the Quarterly Earnings Call
Corporate leaders should put environmental, social, and governance issues at the center of the quarterly earnings call.
Business Models
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Assessing effective frameworks, managing the risks of digital personas, and benefiting at work from volunteerism.
Business Models
What Makes Successful Frameworks Rise Above the Rest
Seven evaluation criteria leaders can use to assess and strengthen the business frameworks they create.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Learning, Engagement, and Empowerment: 1-800-Flowers’ Amit Shah
Amit Shah, president of 1-800-Flowers, explains why lifelong learners are the best technical talent.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Workforce Ecosystems
Our new report, “Workforce Ecosystems: A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work,” describes how many organizations are recognizing that workforce ecosystems offer a productive approach to strategic workforce management.
Skills & Learning
The Best of This Week
Post-pandemic work arrangements, linking inclusion and organizational learning, and smarter pricing.
Customers
Why Pricing Decisions Need More Than Management Intuition
Leaders can make smarter customer strategy decisions in turbulent times through sound economic and strategic thinking.
Skills & Learning
Executing the CEO’s Agenda Through Targeted Learning
Targeted learning can resolve execution problems and social challenges, and drive strategic change.
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Best of This Week
Incremental platform scaling, ecosystem development for sustainable success, and competition in platform-based markets.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Our Guide to the Spring 2021 Issue
In our new spring issue: platform-based ecosystems, blockchain, data failures, and misbehaving leaders.