Developing Strategy
Warding Off the Threat of Disruption
Foresight and timing are crucial elements in responding to disruption.
Business Models
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Business Models
Harnessing the Best of Globalization
Companies entering global markets should identify an approach that best suits their business model.
William R. Kerr
Business Models
Five Steps to Strategic Sustainability and Abundance
The success of mobile money pioneer M-Pesa shows how addressing sustainability issues opens new opportunities.
Jay Friedlander
Collaboration
Crowd-Based Capitalism? Empowering Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy
Peer-to-peer businesses are shaking up fundamental assumptions about how the economy works.
Arun Sundararajan (New York University Stern School of Business), interviewed by Gerald C. Kane
Business Models
How is Digitization Affecting Your Business?
A short questionnaire from researchers at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research helps assess digital risk.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Business Models
Embracing Digital Technologies in Traditional Worlds
Business that are succeeding in the digital world are questioning key managerial assumptions. Case in point: the French Yellow Pages.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Business Models
More Companies Are Cashing In on Underused Resources
Companies can participate in “collaborative consumption” through creative new approaches to defining and reusing their resources.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Strategic Is Your Board?
Strategic thinking by corporate boards is more important than ever for business survival.
Didier Cossin and Estelle Metayer
Executing Strategy
Rebuilding the Relationship Between Manufacturers and Retailers
Manufacturers can benefit by tailoring their approaches to a retailer’s specific business model.
Niraj Dawar and Jason Stornelli
Collaboration
The Uh-Oh Factor: Fundamental Shifts From Social Business and What To Do About It
Phil Fernandez (Marketo), interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson
Developing Strategy
A Question Every Manager Should Ask (Hint: It Has to Do With Megatrends)
The single best question companies should ask themselves is what megatrends are coming around the corner.
Leslie Brokaw
Business Models
What to Do Against Disruptive Business Models (When and How to Play Two Games at Once)
When two business models, and two business units, make sense.
Constantinos C. Markides and Daniel Oyon
Organizational Structure
What Is Your Management Model?
Companies are on the lookout for new forms of competitive advantage. One emerging possibility: the idea that a company’s management model can become a source of advantage.
Julian Birkinshaw and Jules Goddard
Collaboration
Learning From Global Cities
In leading international cities, companies gain access to knowledge and networks.
David Wagner
Marketing Strategy
A Plan to Invent the Marketing We Need Today
Seven strategies that can make marketing both relevant and rigorous in today’s world.
Yoram (Jerry) Wind
