All articles tagged: experts

A review of The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong, by Matthew Stewart.

A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin.

India’s Tata, one of the world’s largest conglomerates, is basing an ambitious global strategy on 142 years of social entrepreneurship.

A conversation with Nick Pennell and Rob Fowler

When management consultants stop being experts and start being collaborators, companies benefit.

The Obama administration’s focus on digital patient records to minimize medical errors and improve efficiency has promise, but will face significant obstacles.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, introduces an engaging lesson in business forecasting from Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work for You, by Spyros Makridakis, Robin Hogarth, and Anil Gaba.

The information systems group at Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. has moved from an "order-taker" role to "next-generation demand management” in an effort to meet overall corporate needs.

How to rebuild your capabilities for long-term growth in a time of turmoil.

The Global Innovation 1000, Booz & Company’s award-winning annual study of corporate R&D spending, is the most comprehensive assessment of the influence of R&D on corporate performance. Booz & Company experts will discuss this year’s findings. Distinguishing this study from those of previous years, they will identify flows of innovation spending across national borders and characteristics of innovation networks that correlate with higher performance.

In facing business complexities, a robust and creative human capital plan could be your most effective strategy.

The lean process expert explains why it’s so hard to emulate Toyota.

“Putting people first” can be more than a slogan.

If we hate it so much, why do we all use it?

The U.S. government’s method for evaluating risk isn’t as objective as it’s made out to be.

The best solutions to an organization’s problems may be found among its members.

Worth the Risk?

More and more, marketing organizations are being asked to fulfill a far more significant role for the rest of the enterprise. Indeed, a number of CMOs have flourished in their capacity as “Growth Champions,” a term we use to describe marketing’s engagement in leading companies to expand their reach in the consumer or business-to-business marketplace. And, as successful leaders, the CMOs have also demonstrated their ability to establish an environment that encourages every member of the marketing team to thrive: After all, not only do followers need great leaders, but great leaders need great followers. Based on revealing interviews that Booz Allen and the ANA conducted with marketing leaders at household-name companies, our experts offer insights into this new marketing role and how to make it work.

Plenty of motivational coaches pledge to boost your efficiency. These are the few who really deliver.

Firsthand observation on the front lines can offer the critical insights that make for inspired — and inspiring — leadership.

It has long been common wisdom that smart companies don’t outsource the core operations that define them and set them apart from the competition. But that is starting to change as companies contract out elements of their engineering, design, and research and development. Innovation is going global, with pockets of technology and engineering expertise springing up for rent in Asia, Eastern Europe, even Africa. Smart companies are dramatically reconfiguring their processes and innovation footprint — the physical network of operations — to take advantage of that trend. Booz Allen Hamilton’s experts weigh in on the new rules of global innovation.

Robert Hormats, an international finance expert and the author of The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars, describes the problems with current U.S. fiscal policy, and how to adjust the country's spending for present and future global battles.