Ralph Kerle Speaks at KLIF 2010
Ralph Kerle will be speaking at the Kuala Lumpur Innovation Forum 2010 on November 4. Malaysia is embarking upon a new phase of development towards realizing its aspiration of becoming a developed nation by 2020. The purpose of the forum is to bring together high level stakeholders from public, private and civil society to share [...]
read moreGrowth Through Focus: A Blueprint for Driving Profitable Expansion.
This excellent paper from Booz & Co argues that too frequently, the business strategies of large corporations are poorly understood outside the corporate headquarters. When leaders are asked to act like owners, they often arrive at sensible trade-offs among risks, rewards and resources. Rather than seek increased revenues and profits by expanding products and markets, [...]
read moreThe Why What and How of Management Innovation – Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review
“Over the past century, breakthroughs such as brand management and the divisionalised organisation structure have sustained more creative competitive than anything that came out of a lab or focus group. Here’s how you can make your company a serial management innovator.” says Gary Hamel in this article from the Harvard Business Review
read moreHow To Make Management Innovation Happen – MIT Sloan Review
An insight article from Julian Birkinshaw and Michael Mol from the London School of Economics in which they propose management innovation is typically a four stage process. According to the authors, few companies understand how such innovation occurs and how to encourage it and thus to foster new management ideas and techniques, companies first need [...]
read moreCapitalizing on Complexity: Creative Leadership is The Way To Go – 2010 IBM’s Global CEO’s Study.
In this new report from IBM, CEOs now realize that creativity trumps other leadership characteristics. Creative leaders are comfortable with ambiguity and experimentation. To connect with and inspire a new generation, they lead and interact in entirely new ways. Click here to download the full IBM Survey.
read more21 Evidence Based Ideas About How Great Bosses Lead Innovation – Stanford d.school
By Bob Sutton, Stanford University My Stanford colleague Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao and I have been leading an executive program at Stanford every November for the past four years that is called Customer-focused Innovation . In the mornings, we discuss the theory and practice of innovation with the executives. In the afternoon’s, Perry Klebhan from the [...]
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