First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 18, 2011

o Find your own market niche In the same way that successful entrepreneurs provide innovative solutions to market opportunities, you can work to develop a special competency that differentiates you from everyone else. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Be creative. Life is good.

Ulrich 134

Ulrich Hersey Prahalad Mission Statement 134

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies.

Prahalad 28

Prahalad Productivity Products Marketing 28

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

The Five Practices created developed by Kouzes and Posner are all about these behaviors : Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act E ncourage the Heart The book teaches you how each practice is linked to today’s modern buyer preferences. You’ll learn how to: Inspire, strengthen and motivate buyers.

Ramaswamy 50

Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. d.light’s deeply holistic analysis of the problems faced by people in poverty led to developing inexpensive, durable solar-powered LED lanterns (sold on time payments) to replace kerosene, open fires—or darkness. Two examples: Let There Be Light.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

Microfinance 17

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

Goal 12

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. How much energy are you consuming?

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

Mission Statement 16

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

Mission Statement 16

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 15

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. For each segment, there may be only three or four jobs to be done that are crucial.

Ramaswamy 10

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

Blue Ocean Strategy 250

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions.

Innovation 86

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 86

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. At the same time, design consultancies are increasingly looked at to spearhead the development process — from consumer research to design to prototyping, manufacturing and packaging.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. That value must be measured across all stakeholders.

ROE 15

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 15