How Companies Become Platform Leaders
Under the right circumstances, companies of any size can grow to become platform leaders. And particular business and technology decisions can help platform-leader wannabes achieve their goals.
Enabling Bold Visions
A CEO’s new vision often blurs into an indistinct image once the initial blitz is over. To ensure that the vision is more than just a daydream, companies should follow a five-phase model that some organizations have used successfully to avoid disaster or complacency.
Don’t Confuse Reputation With Brand
Many executives talk about corporate reputation and brand as if they are one and the same. They are not, and confusing the two can lead to costly mistakes.
When Bad People Rise to the Top
Surprisingly often, executives with impressive track records are mysteriously transformed into corrupt and tyrannical monsters once they become CEOs. What danger signals do these individuals exhibit, and what measures can be taken to reduce the likelihood of hiring them?
Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Win the War for Talent
New research indicates that there are five steps that can help business leaders increase CSR’s effectiveness as a lever for talent management.
Institutionalizing Innovation
Building an engine that produces a steady stream of innovative growth businesses is difficult, but companies that are able to do it differentiate themselves from competitors.
Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty
For any breakthrough innovation project, specific objectives are often unclear or highly malleable, and the paths to them are murky. Rather than feign certainty that doesn”
The Six Key Dimensions of Understanding Media
The Genre Model can help in evaluating how a new communication technology may fit into your specific corporate environment.
When Supplier Partnerships Aren’t
Dual accountability between a buyer and its strategic suppliers, through tools such as a Two-Way Scorecard, is a new and tangible approach to improving supply chain relationships.
Applying (and Resisting) Peer Influence
Awareness of peer influence helps managers orchestrate the actions of others -- and interpret their own behaviors.

