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Strategy P. 11

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  • Flat World, Hard Boundaries "Ò How To Lead Across Them

    Today's collaborative and creative leaders engage in six boundary spanning practices.

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  • New Sustainability Study: The 'Embracers' Seize Advantage

    Despite the economic downturn and tenuous recovery, more than two-thirds of businesses are strengthening their commitment to sustainability, according to a new global study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group, as reported in this article. The study found that 69% of companies surveyed plan to step up their investment in and management of sustainability this year. Just over one-quarter (26%) plan no change, and only 2% intend to cut back on their commitment. The study also found that a two-speed landscape is emerging, with a gap between sustainability "embracers"--those who place sustainability high on their agenda--and nonembracers or "cautious adopters," who have yet to focus on more than energy cost savings, material efficiency and risk mitigation. Embracers are significantly more confident about their competitive position than nonembracers are. Seventy percent of embracers said they believe their organizations outperform industry peers. By contrast, only 53% of cautious adopters described themselves as outperformers, and 14% admitted to lagging behind peers--more than twice the percentage of embracers who made the same claim (6%). In addition, nearly three times as many embracers (two-thirds of them) as cautious adopters said that their organization's sustainability actions and decisions have increased their profits. "What's fascinating is that these findings depict a business landscape in general that's tilting hard toward where the embracers already are," says Michael Hopkins, editor-in-chief of MIT SMR and a coauthor of the report. "So the embracers have handed us a kind of crystal ball. Their insights and behaviors suggest a blueprint for how management practice and competitive strategy will evolve." The report identifies seven specific practices exhibited by embracer companies, which together begin to define sustainability-driven management.

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  • Bringing Open Innovation to Services

    Companies should organize their service innovation processes to be more open to external ideas.

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  • Are You Giving Globalization the Right Amount of Attention?

    Too little attention from head office executives can cause problems in global operations.

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  • How to Manage Risk (After Risk Management Has Failed)

    The authors make the case that a shift in risk management approaches is needed.

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  • Overheard at MIT: Why Economics Isn't Like Physics

    MIT Sloan's Andrew Lo on the importance of analyzing the uncertainty levels of a business.

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  • Best Practices for Industry-University Collaboration

    To extract the most business value from university research, companies need to follow seven rules.

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  • Enhance Assets or Reduce Liabilities?

    Most executives naturally gravitate toward one of these two approaches. The challenge is that companies need both.

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  • What to Do Against Disruptive Business Models (When and How to Play Two Games at Once)

    When two business models, and two business units, make sense.

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  • A Business Plan? Or a Journey to Plan B?

    From Apple to Twitter, some of the most successful businesses are not what their inventors originally envisioned.

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