Purpose Adopting and implementing a platform-based business model is fraught
with problems and complications, many of which are poorly understood even by
industry insiders. As they try to sort through the best practices for operating
in this new business environment, senior managers need to carefully analyze the
strengths of the business model of some of most successful companies before
trying to ... hiện toàn bộ
Michaël Kolk, Rick Eagar, Charles Boulton, Carlos Mira
Purpose Hyper-collaboration means managing ecosystems not just as candy stores
full of opportunities, but as fiercely competitive arenas in which companies
fight for the best partners, technologies and networks to create, build and
defend added value. Design/methodology/approach To address the challenges
inherent in the dynamic world of hyper-collaboration, the authors identify the
five pillars of... hiện toàn bộ
The concept of constellations of communities is a big picture view of how
communities of practice in organizations relate to one another. These
communities are voluntary, and over time they form a complex, informal network
of relationships, knowledge sharing, learning, and conversations that can be
woven together into a powerful strategic fabric with the right kind of
leadership. Like a garden, th... hiện toàn bộ
This article shows how scenarios provide a powerful methodology to identify,
connect, and assess the critical strategic and knowledge uncertainties they
inevitably contain within them, the seeds of any organization’s future
marketplace opportunities. Although these two types of uncertainties are quite
distinct, scenarios furnish a proven means for senior managers and others to
surface and grapple ... hiện toàn bộ
This interview is drawn from highlights of Dr. Kanter's outstanding keynote
presentation at the 1997 International Strategic Leadership Conference in
Washington, D.C.
PurposeThe authors illustrate how the Dynamic Scenario Learning Process works in
practice.Design/methodology/approachA case showing how “Forward Bank” used the
DSLP to discover crucial inter‐relationships that were not intuitively
obvious.FindingsForward's scenarios provided a year's head start on
understanding how to manage the dotcom collapse and the 9/11 attacks. Because
managers had considered... hiện toàn bộ
The finance and accounting processes tend to be mistakenly viewed only as
necessary functions of month‐end closing and historical focus. When finance
becomes recognized as a value‐adding process ‐ creating and focusing information
to facilitate achieving the goals and objectives of the corporation, its impact
on the bottom line will be fully realized. The key to revising this view of
finance is to... hiện toàn bộ