Archive for July, 2008
The 5 Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
A healthy industry structure should be as much a competitive concern to strategists as their company’s own position. Defending against the competitive forces and shaping them in a company’s favor are crucial to strategy. Tom Stewart talks to Michael E. Porter about the 5 forces that can help a company understand the structure of its [...]
Value of B Players
We’ve all heard the stats, the talent pool in organizations can be broadly categorized as top 10% “A Players”, middle 80% “B Players” and the bottom most 10% as “C Players”. Professor Tom DeLong, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, discovered that senior executives spend most of their time with “A Players”, resulting [...]
Institutions vs. Collaboration
Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody”, shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. With many organizations trying to harness the power of communities and collaboration, Clay suggests that the key to effective collaboration is to embed it [...]
Yes, You Can Innovate Like Google
The words “Google” and “Innovation” have been used numerous times in the last few years… and all of us undoubtedly admire “The Google Way”, their talent acquisition, management and retention strategies etc. However, we usually shy away from adoting a subset of those ideas, with the usual answer - “we’re different”. In this video, Tom Davenport describes how Google uses chaos to quickly [...]
