Do Your Managers – Responses to Market Results Damage Profits?

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: London Business School    University of St. Gallen    ESADE   

Many managers believe that quality is something that they as managers and decision-makers can control. Quality is internal and stable, unlike prices, which are subject to changing market conditions. Although…

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Reallocating Resources to Realize Strategic Goals

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: McKinsey United Kingdom    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    The University of Sydney Business School   

Companies that regularly evaluate the performance of business units, acquire and divest assets, and adjust resource allocations based on each division’s relative market opportunities have a significant edge over those…

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Innovation: Seeing the Wood for the Trees

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    Harvard Business School   

In 2013 Benner and Tushman’s research was awarded the impressive accolade of ‘Paper of the Decade’ by the American Academy of Management Review. For this reason alone it merits revisiting, but…

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Human Judgement Vs Computer Aided Forecasting

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: IE Business School    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Robots are taking over our jobs! Ok, maybe that’s not quite the case just yet, but as technology continues to develop swiftly, there is no doubt that machines are getting…

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Flattened Organizations: When Cons Outweigh Pros

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School   

Flattening (or delayering) of hierarchies within an organization has been called for by much recent literature. In theory, flattening is supposed to help push decisions downwards to enhance customer and…

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Creating Innovative Business Models

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IESE Business School    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Though product/process innovation has become a necessity for many companies, the time and expenses required is now leading hesitant companies to turn towards business model innovation instead. So what do…

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