Leading Ideas
Leading Ideas are reports on management trends, thinking, and practice. They are crafted to help senior decision makers see their work and their environment in new ways so they can act more effectively.
December 17, 2008
Follow the Customer, Follow the Car
Global companies today can learn from the Japanese enterprises that thrived during the country’s “lost decade.”
December 9, 2008
Taiwan Is Open for Business
A heightened level of access to Taiwan from mainland China means new opportunities for foreign investors.
December 2, 2008
Transforming an Adversarial Relationship
A survey of automakers and their suppliers unearths the management prerequisites for working together profitably.
November 18, 2008
China’s Long Road to Innovation
Beijing is mandating an increase in home-grown R&D, but Chinese companies face long odds in meeting international standards of innovation.
November 11, 2008
Don’t Be Afraid of the Bear
Foreign banks can find opportunity in Russia if they are willing to navigate the risks.
November 4, 2008
Pitting Latin Multinationals against Established Giants
To succeed globally, “multilatinas” — and all aspiring international companies from developing nations — must make rapid strides in governance, transparency, and executive appointments.
October 28, 2008
The Collaboration Game
Although an elusive goal, cooperative relationships between retailers and suppliers can be wildly profitable.
October 21, 2008
Is Backshoring the New Offshoring?
The business press is touting a return of offshored jobs to the U.S. — but we’re not buying it.
October 14, 2008
Knowledge-based Sourcing in China
Structural shifts in the Asian giant’s economy are forcing companies to adopt deeper and more personal strategies for supplier relationships.
October 7, 2008
The Coming Boom in Hybrid Cars
Evidence from innovation theory and auto-industry history suggests that the market share for hybrids is about to accelerate sharply.
September 30, 2008
Change Management: Who’s in Charge?
A new survey finds that transformations succeed when top executives pay attention.
September 23, 2008
Peanut Butter on the Chin
What The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo’s landmark book on a prison experiment at Stanford University, tells us about the dangers of corporate conformity.
September 16, 2008
A Breakaway Opportunity for “Inferior” Products
As the difficult economy causes consumers to trade down in their purchases, companies need to adjust their offerings to their customers’ new behavior.
September 9, 2008
Why Corporate Buyers Are Dominating M&A
Amid the tightest credit conditions in decades, the market for corporate control is favoring low-leverage, growth-oriented transactions.
September 2, 2008
What’s So Smart about the Smart Grid?
Changes in the ways consumers use electricity have spurred the need for a more intelligent way to distribute energy.
August 26, 2008
A Growth Strategy for the Long Term
Economies that depend primarily on a single resource are exposed to ongoing shocks, but an export-based diversification strategy can alleviate the tremors.
August 19, 2008
Hearts and Minds
Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter on why urgency in the face of change matters — right now.
August 12, 2008
RFID Redux
No longer the tech darling, RFID is slowly reemerging as a valuable way to monitor small pieces of big supply chains.
August 5, 2008
Survival-of-the-Fittest Innovation
Booz & Company Partner Alexander Kandybin on why consumer products companies should look to the power of natural selection to break out of the incremental innovation trap.
July 29, 2008
The Decline of the Expat Executive
Peter Felix, president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, discusses the new effort by multinationals to hire local executives in foreign locales.
July 22, 2008
Sidestepping Disaster
Extending supply chains to low-cost nations may make economic sense, but disruptions from natural catastrophes can drown the gains.
July 15, 2008
The Evolution of Online Media
Author of Always On and Booz & Company Partner Christopher Vollmer on how the media environment is changing and what it means for advertisers and marketers.
July 8, 2008
The New Chinese Environment
To do business in China, companies can no longer ignore their effect on the country’s water and air.
July 1, 2008
Building the Perfect Workforce
Community college partnerships are training workers with made-to-order skills.
June 24, 2008
Indian Outsourcers Go Global
Facing mounting competitive pressure, India’s biggest firms are reshaping themselves as multinationals.
June 17, 2008
The Sum of the Parts
Effective product innovation depends on fast access to critical design and engineering data. At Whirlpool, the challenge turns out to be as much human as it is technological.
June 10, 2008
It’s Not about the Money
To improve employee morale and productivity, increasing compensation may be precisely the wrong tack.
June 3, 2008
Friendlier Skies
Consolidation in the increasingly competitive European airline industry has been long delayed, but the wait is coming to an end.
May 28, 2008
Six Keys to a Winning Manufacturing Strategy
How John Deere bucked industrial trends to become an international growth star.
May 22, 2008
Lessons of Silence
What the deaf can teach us about listening — and making ourselves heard.
May 13, 2008
Taking a Chance on Oil
Geopolitical and financial uncertainty contribute more than an imbalance between supply and demand to sky-high oil prices.
May 6, 2008
The Next Empire
What can the U.S. do to maintain its competitive position against the E.U. and China? Foreign policy scholar Parag Khanna believes the answer lies right under our noses.
April 29, 2008
Winning the PR Wars
CEOs must learn to manage the media if they want to influence how their stories are told.
April 22, 2008
A Clear Look at Biofuels
Myths abound regarding the pros and cons of biofuels. Here is a scorecard to separate truth from fiction.
April 15, 2008
The Truth about Exports
The numbers may be rosy, but the U.S. export initiative is still hobbled.
April 8, 2008
Business Success from the Bottom Up
Management consultant Ralph Sink believes that people, when given ownership and held accountable, will shine.
April 1, 2008
Competing on the Eco Front
Environmentally friendly countries have a leg up in the competition for international travelers, but sustaining that advantage takes work.
March 25, 2008
Anyone Around Here Nervous?
Public relations guru Robert Dilenschneider on getting ahead when everyone else is concerned about falling behind.
March 18, 2008
China’s Shifting Competitive Equation
Multinational companies must respond to China’s rising costs by bringing their own global best practices to its shores.
March 11, 2008
We Are All Pirates
Author Matt Mason takes a hard look at how established companies should face the growing threat of copyright piracy.
February 26, 2008
The Intelligent Highway: A Smart Idea?
Roadways that give drivers safety updates and ease congestion may finally become part of U.S. transportation infrastructure.
February 19, 2008
Reining In the Overpaid (and Underperforming) Chief Executive
Corporate governance expert Nell Minow explains the relationship between outlandish severance packages and the risky financial instruments linked to subprime mortgages.
February 12, 2008
Freeing Ideas from Their Silos
How the U.S. Army has transformed its approach to sharing knowledge, and what businesses can learn from it.
February 5, 2008
Travel 2.0
Winning over the travelers of the future will require technologies that, like human travel agents, can segment customers accurately and give them what they want.
January 29, 2008
A Challenge for India
N.R. Narayana Murthy, chief mentor and cofounder of Infosys Technologies, sees a bright future for developing countries — if they can use their success to address the problems of poverty.
January 22, 2008
Signals for the Coming Year
Change may be certain, but for a business decision maker, some changes have more impact than others. Here are eight trends that will make the greatest difference in 2008.
January 15, 2008
Growing a New Niche in Retail Banking
How some top performers are adapting to target the lucrative mass affluent market.
January 8, 2008
Making Innovation Strategy Succeed
Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Barry Jaruzelski discusses the process and findings of the annual Global Innovation 1000 study.
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