Building resilience in risk-takers

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Too Big To Fail ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Risk Takers ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Agile Teams ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The cult of start-ups is already embedded in many major corporations. For those commercial giants that are “too big to fail”, their research and development (R&D) departments talk a lot about failure. Whether it is a skunkworks, a lean operating business development hub, or a suite of fully agile teams working in continuous development, the focus will be on creating minimal viable products with many iterations that will in all likelihood fail. The hope being that for the 999 failures, the 1,000th idea will finally pay dividends. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Playing the long game

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Angel Investors

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The pages of glossy business magazines are filled with long articles, short anecdotes, and visualizations of how Company A fosters creativity by allowing play time for employees, and how Company B has installed slides instead of stairs and offers free pizza. Indeed, it will not be long before one wacky start-up decides to put-up the bar and give all employees the rest of the year off to “ideate and channel their inner creativity”. The business magazines love showcasing these kinds of start-ups as people love to read about them – although there never seems to be many follow-ups in just how many of them saw their fifth year of activity after the cash from angel investors was burned through. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Innovation and the SME

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Product Launches ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Agile Teams ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Is innovation dead? Of course, in one sense it is very much alive, as firms around the world plough billions of dollars into research and design (R&D) programs, skunkworks and AGILE teams to develop ideas and innovate new products. They wouldn’t spend all that time and effort if there was nothing left to innovate, would they? Well no, but as we start the year 2020 one cannot help thinking that some of the spark and fizz has gone out of product launches. Rather than seeing things that are genuinely new and exciting, we see things have been developed and evolved, but are not representing a huge game change or paradigm shift in the way we carry on our everyday lives. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Missing links in effective emerging markets strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Too Big To Fail ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Clayton Christenson in The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997) teaches us that many firms think they are too big to fail, or cannot fail, despite the fact they can see the competition coming from miles away. Whether it is hiding in plain sight, or they cannot see the wood for the trees, there seems to be a feeling in large corporations that while some organizations may be able to gain some competitive advantage, they will never be able to scale this up. This has been, of course, a huge error – just ask Kodak and hundreds of other firms who failed to heed the warning signs. Practical/implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Food for thought

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Despite originating from a limited study, this briefing provides insight into how business model innovation can be crucial, especially for food start-ups. Sustainability is becoming the key term that dictates whether small food firms survive. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

How start-ups stay clever

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper explores how start-ups are using intellectual property strategically in much more sophisticated ways than may at first be apparent, to carve out advantages in the market, opportunities to learn and new ways to grow as they duck and dive around the large businesses that strategize in a more predictable fashion. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

How Phillips saw the light

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Business World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Freak Show ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The One ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The problem with developing a reputation of being something of an oracle in the business world is that all of a sudden, everyone expects you to pull off the trick of interpreting the future on a daily basis. Like a freak show circus act or one-hit wonder pop singer, people expect you to perform when they see you, and they expect you to perform the thing that made you famous, even if it is the one thing in the world you don’t want to do. And when you fail to deliver on these heightened expectations, you are dismissed as a one trick pony, however good that trick is in the first place. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Negotiation and corporate strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Consistent Approach

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Negotiation is a key tool in delivering competitive advantage but requires a clear and consistent approach closely linked to organizational strategy. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Blending global and regional planning in multinationals

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Central Planning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Blending global and regional planning is important for multinationals. Within a central framework, local offices should have input. Different regions will approach this in different ways, but regional planning needs to be in-synch with central planning cycles. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

The importance of corporate political strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Political Strategies ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Corporate Political Strategy ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings There is a substantial body of research on corporate political strategy, but most is theoretical, lacking empirical evidence, and is widely geo specific. More research needs to be done in clarifying the field, and developing new ideas for emerging markets. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Public convenience, private company

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Established Firms ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The innovator’s dilemma is a relatively new story, although it seems to have been around in decades. The dilemma relates to established firms who cannot decide whether to “stick or twist” in their strategy. If they stay with their current offering, they will gradually lose market share or could quickly be overturned by a fast-paced competitor; if they invest in change, they will lose their profitable existence with no guarantee of success. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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