First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yves Doz is Professor of Strategic Management and Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation, INSEAD. Prahalad, a close colleague and friend, he is at the origin of the integration responsiveness (I/R) grid, which became a core framework in international management. Together with C.K.

Prahalad 80

Prahalad Innovation Technology Books 80

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? My personal crusade here is to bring management back onto an equal putting with leadership.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

My current reading list includes: - Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel) - Juice (Evan Schwartz) - REWORK (Jason Fried) - Trust Agents (Brogan) - Medici Effect (Johannson) - Delivering Happiness (Hsieh) M [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well as the great list of books.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies. If Canon had followed that advice in the early 1970s, it would have never taken on Xerox.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. Talent management is critically important. So your reliance on talent management is critically important.". asked Gary Hamel.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better) Technology / Offering (Make different) Strategy/Management (Sell different) Leadership Innovation (Work different) Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time.

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

So WalMart’s gargantuan core competencies of buying power, supply chain management and logistical superiority guarantee the “everyday low prices” its customers crave and demand. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? company like Apple.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. As a team manager, you can support the right behaviors with things that are in your control. If you give yourselves an A, it''s something worth celebrating.".

Team 10

Team How To Case Study Hamel 10

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). Technology / Offering (Make different). Strategy/Management (Sell different). Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time. If so, how?

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0 This ethos helps to continually open up the field of play at Rite-Solutions to new products, technologies, and directions. You behave, you stay.' Register here.

Innovation 14

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Lakeland tracked the things that drove patient satisfaction — response times to call lights, pain management, the quality of the food, the effectiveness of patient communication, and so on. Not surprisingly, front line employees and their managers started to become less tolerant of colleagues with crappy attitudes.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

As Generation Y enters the workforce, its members are undoubtedly having an effect on organizations and management. I have a lot of faith in the Millennials' imagination, based partly on my experience at HCL, in the area of technology innovation. I also know that many senior executives feel threatened by their behavior.

Hamel 15

Hamel Management Bottom-up Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail. If the structure of the management committee was a problem, they would have failed by now. All decision-making is done through self-managing teams of 8-12 people: hiring, pay, which projects to work on, everything.

Case Study 14

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 14

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102