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Why Luxury Should not Delocalize: a critique of a growing tendency
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
Many famous luxury brands have recently planned to delocalize their production. Many applaud luxury brands for closing production sites in their home countries, considering such cost optimization to be a rational evolution. But others claim that in doing so, luxury is losing its soul. This article reminds managers that any decision must be [...]
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Segmenting for Success – From Value Chain Theory to Everyday Execution
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By Sean Culey
Theory has little value unless it can be successfully translated into everyday execution.
“Real artists ship.”
Scrawled on an easel in January 1983 by Steve Jobs, this message was directed at his Apple team who were months overdue on launching the first Macintosh computer. He wanted them to understand that their innovations were worthless unless [...]
Lessons from the Front: A Practitioner’s Guide to Waging War on Complexity
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By Stephen A.Wilson & Andrei Perumal
Complexity is now top of the agenda for many Chief Executives. In today’s world—that is, after the financial collapse—companies’ plans for top-line growth are being scrutinized to determine whether they will deliver profitable top-line growth. Investors are questioning cost structures that are out of line. Management teams are facing a [...]
Challenging the “Tailor” How to Effectively Customize Executive Education for the Companies’ Benefit
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By Andreas Löhmer
When it comes to executive education, companies very often accept second best solutions. Looking at the impact achieved, these investments do not always seem sufficiently well-placed. In a time where resources are even scarcer than before, organizations require proper learning partners in order to stand out. Here, two things are crucial: First, companies [...]
Good Profits and Growth How Net Promoter Helps Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World
By Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey and Andreas Dullweber
Companies are now finding that the only path to sustainable growth lies through “good profits” and long-term customer loyalty. The Net Promoter® system enables executives to rigorously measure customer attitudes and behaviors, distinguish between bad profits and good, and build the quest for good profits and loyalty into [...]
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
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By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products for many years. For example 20 years ago, the year of the first Rio Climate Summit, KYOCERA made a radical innovation in printer technology that remains the only real challenger to [...]
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order is coming apart, a new one—for better or worse—self-assembling. To help build and succeed in the new order, leaders in the private, public and citizen sectors need to switch from thinking [...]
The Search for Innovation Leadership
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By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I have been discussing innovation and creativity with managers in Master Classes, seminars and roundtable sessions, one observation keeps returning: almost all leaders agreed that they underutilized the creativity of their employees. [...]
Delivering Transformational Change
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By David Miller
Change is becoming more frequent, radical and complex. Failure rates of change projects are high because organisations fail to implement the change fully. To overcome these challenges, the knowledge, skills and processes must be developed by people inside the organisation.
The leadership challenge
Demand for deep, sustainable change in organisations is being driven hard by [...]
Understanding and Mastering Complexity
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe repercussions of the financial crisis and the acceleration of technological change, has reminded executives of the challenge in not only surviving, but also strengthening their companies’ foundations so as to fully [...]
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
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By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved without an increasing cadre of managers who understand the world through global lenses.
As Dean of one of Turkey’s top business schools with strong ties to the business community1, I spend quite [...]
The Seven Secrets of Serial Innovators
By Claudio Feser
Some firms can resist the aging process: they adapt and thrive in dynamic markets, and sometimes they create value for decades. I call them Serial Innovators.
The average life expectancy of firms at listing is about 15 years, and only 1 in 20 lives longer than 50 years. Set up on the back of [...]
Self-Determination Theory and Employee Motivation: An Expert Speaks
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By Craig Perrin
AchieveGlobal recently interviewed Chris Niemiec about the role and value of self-determination theory (SDT) in employee engagement and productivity.
CRAIG: Chris, before we dive into self-determination theory, how would you describe the traditional approach to employee motivation?
CHRIS: It begins with an implicit assumption that employees are passive, that they don’t come to work with [...]
Davos 2012: ‘Joblessness and Its Discontents’
By Michael Useem
Optimism was in short supply at the 2012 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which ended on Sunday (29 January, 2012). As Wharton management professor Michael Useem reports below, keynote speakers and panelists alike focused on a number of problems that are getting in the way of global prosperity. [...]
By Robert Costanza
What we need now is the “Solutions Generation” who can think outside the box to create a vision of a better, more sustainable world for us all and for future generations.
The Arab Spring, and more recently the Occupy movement, are both indications of growing dissatisfaction with the world’s current plight, especially among [...]
By Georges Haour
The internationalisation of R&D/Innovation, compounded with the banal phrase of “open innovation”, has been around for a long time, as technology-intensive firms struggle to integrate their laboratories as part of an effective orchestra of their innovation process.
To improve this situation, we have proposed the entrepreneurial approach of “Distributed Innovation”. This requires true leadership, [...]
Clyde Waterfront – A River of Opportunity
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The scale, pace and diversity of the River Clyde’s regeneration has re-vitalised the area, creating numerous opportunities for businesses and the public to invest, locate and live!
Clyde Waterfront Strategic Partnership (www.clydewaterfront.com) facilitates and promotes the Clyde’s regeneration from Glasgow, via Renfrew to Dumbarton, with £3.5 billion already spent or committed by the [...]
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By John Sutherland
What does your business need from its leadership? If you are like most businesses it will be some, or all, of the following:
Leaders who:
- hit the numbers
- increase profitability
- galvanise those working with them
- deliver and develop your business plan
- grow value through business development
- create traction and delivery rather than drama and [...]
It’s What You Do After the Sums that Matters…
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By John Peters
Aston Business School in Britain has introduced a new Executive MBA programme that aims to address some of the frequent criticism the MBA has faced in recent years.
The baby boomers’ degree, the MBA, was developed to meet the need to build the cross-functional skills of aspirant executives. However, current expectations have evolved beyond [...]
Why Luxury Should not Delocalize: a critique of a growing tendency
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
Many famous luxury brands have recently planned to delocalize their production. Many applaud luxury brands for closing production sites in their home countries, considering such cost optimization to be a rational evolution. But others claim that in doing so, luxury is losing its soul. This article reminds managers that any decision must be [...]
Viral Marketing? Advertise It! Advice for web 2.0 communication strategies
By Guillermo Armelini & Julian Villanueva
1. Introduction
Ever since the birth of web 2.0, consumer-controlled, Internet-based technologies, such as blogs, social networking sites, and wikis, have been forcing firms to reconsider their marketing strategies. First, as many studies have shown, younger consumers watch less television as other screens (e.g., laptops, smartphones, tablets) compete for their attention, [...]
Understanding Online Advertising Market Structure and Leadership
By Federico Etro
The analysis of the market structure in online advertising generates a number of new intriguing business and antitrust issues concerning market definition, market strategies and potential abuses of dominance by the global leader in this market.
In 2010 the European Commission launched an investigation into potential abuses concerning the preferential treatment for Google services [...]
Discovering Your Indomitable WHY POWER
By Darren Hardy
The power of your “why” is what gets you to stick through the grueling, mundane, and laborious. The person who has a clear, compelling and white-hot burning reason why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the “how”.
The POWER to Achieve the Impossible
Have you tried before and [...]
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated that “China does not want to buy Europe”. While unusual in international diplomacy, Chinese officials obviously felt such a statement was needed to assuage concerns over potential Chinese investment in the [...]
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