The Social Intrapreneurship
Emmanuel de Lutzel is VP Social Business at BNP Paribas, and an active a social intrapreneur. Why is social intrapreneurship an important topic today ? EdL: My intrapreneurial journey…
Pulling the Triggers That Pull Companies
Since Cesare Mainardi and I published Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap (Harvard Business Press, 2016), a lot of businesspeople have told us that they feel…
How This Successful Company Simplified the Business Consulting Industry
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. As a strategy simplifier, Boston Consulting Group transformed the business world. Not only did it spawn a…
We Need To Accelerate Innovation
For most of its history, the United States was a backwater. At the turn of the 20th century, a promising young student would often need to go to Europe to…
What is the Appropriate Combination of Innovation Types in Your Portfolio?
It can be difficult to find the right balance of innovation types in your portfolio. The mix with the highest overall return varies by industry, competitive position, and most…
Digital Transformations Start with Frontline Workers
Recently, one of the largest hotel chains in the world transformed itself with digital technology — for the second time. By all accounts, the first effort had been a failure.…
Ikea Brilliantly Reveals The Psychology Behind Its Products
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. You likely thought it was just a bunch of chilly Swedes…
The 3 Secrets Of Managing A Great Board
It’s no secret that a well-chosen board can bring a multitude of benefits to your business. It can add clout, open doors. It can have the power to lend relationships,…
9 US Brands to Watch in 2017
Denise Lee Yohn is a brand expert and author of the book, What Great Brands Do. She recently posted a list of the 26 brands to watch in 2017, conveniently…
How To Transform Your Consulting Business
Consulting companies go out of business when they consult themselves into their own grave and only grasp what’s happening when it’s too late to stop. What the hell am…
Corporate Innovation Ventures: Separation vs. Integration
Probably the most critical structural ingredient for innovation capability is how new ventures – internal as well as external ones – are to be implemented in the organization in order…
CIOs Face Tough Digital Transformation Challenge
IT leaders are grappling with how to cost-effectively transform their organization into a digital enterprise even though they are being limited by traditional enterprise thinking. Many struggle to achieve the…
How Inefficient Processes Are Hurting Your Company
Companies today are burdened by siloed, difficult-to-use business systems that complicate processes and hamper operations. According to market research firm IDC, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue every…
To Franchise or Not to Franchise: How to Decide.
For many brands hoping to expand, franchising is a great model. But it’s not the only (or always the best) option. Here, we follow two similar entrepreneurs as they choose…
3 Things You Must Do to Scale Your Ecommerce Business
Trying to scale your business can be a difficult task. Even if the company is growing on its own, there are still many things you need to do in order…
7 Low-Tech Ways to Really Boost Your Productivity
You’ll never outrun your challenges, no matter how hard you try. We live in a digital age and of course, there are tools that will help you stay productive even…
3 Ways to Turn a Startup’s Bad Professional Review Around
Criticism hurts, but at the same time it’s usually valuable. Had my friends not brutally mocked my terrible goatee for six months, for example, I’d probably still look like a…
Top Executives Pledge to Put More Women in Charge By 2030
The highest glass ceiling in the U.S. might remain intact after November 8, but there seems to have been a sea change in women’s equality in the workplace lately. Executives…
The Biggest Innovation Of The Next 100 Years Is Right In Front Of You
It never fails that the greatest innovations often come wrapped in obscurity and misunderstanding. I can imagine a scene in which the first wheel was met with head scratching, confusion,…
11 Reasons Why Questions Are So Effective
11 Reasons Why Questions Are So Effective Answers are a dime a dozen. But dialogue is what really matters. The other day I attended a forum designed to explain a…