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Schultz formed a strategic hypothesis—the Italian espresso experience could be re-created in America and the public would embrace it.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Many Japanese companies have adopted brainstorming camps as a tool for that purpose.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
What is important about this strategy development process is that it represents not just a one-time event, but a shift in the ongoing management processes of the firm. It puts in place a “conscience” mechanism which forces each practice area to consider (and, over time, reconsider) how it is operating, where it is going, and how it plans to
... See moreDavid H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
At the end of the quarter, a lone HR person ran around like a Jack Russell, nipping at managers’ heels to get updated numbers before the board meeting.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Second, companies need to make sure that a self-organizing project team is overseeing the new-product development process.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
I find it useful to include individuals who did not create, and therefore are not emotionally bound to, the status quo. This usually implies that promising junior executives will participate. I also find that individuals from outside the firm, preferably outside the industry, often lend the most original ideas. Finally, I believe it’s crucial to
... See moreRoger L. Martin • A New Way to Think
This corporate détente, if you will, wouldn’t have been possible, I think, without the Five Year Compact. The document, while providing great comfort to Pixar employees, prompted several complaints from the Disney Studios human resources department. The complaints boiled down to the fact that they didn’t care for the exceptionalism that our
... See moreAmy Wallace • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
General Fusion turned to InnoCentive, an online platform that connects companies to a network of nearly 400,000 experts. Some 229 engineers accessed General Fusion’s technical brief, 64 submitted solutions, and the company awarded Kirby Meachum, an MIT-trained engineer, $20,000 for his proposal.