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New products, new processes and new business models require a steady flow of good ideas, knowledge, resources, and the ability to execute.
Strategyworld.org is dedicated to ideas and execution in the fast paced world of global business. We bring you the best ideas directly from thought-leaders across the world - via this blog and through our online webinars.
Your host is Christian Sarkar, the founder of Double Loop Marketing LLC, a thought-leadership consultancy. Christian is the managing editor of this site and several others including the Institute of Brand Science at Emory University. He is interested in too many things to list here and spends too much time chasing ideas. He is “working” on a book on “double loop marketing.”
Our founding “thought-leaders” include:
Douglas K. Smith
Doug Smith is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and consultants. While at McKinsey & Company, he co-led the Firm’s worldwide organization practice and launched the “horizontal organization,” a part of the reengineering revolution that Fortune called “the model for the next fifty years.” Most recently, he authored On Value and Values — a sweeping vision to revitalize our values for our new world of markets, networks, organizations, friends and families. He is the co-author (with Jon Katzenbach) of The Wisdom of Teams and The Discipline of Teams, books used by millions of people in organizations the world over. Smith also authored Make Success Measurable and Taking Charge of Change — praised for using performance to drive real change in a dynamic world. His book Fumbling The Future changed forever how Fortune 500 companies manage innovation. He has contributed to performance, innovation, strategy and change in scores of organizations across more than forty industries in all three sectors: private, government and non-profit. He is the architect of Achieving Excellence in Community Development, a performance-driven organizational investment program that has revolutionized executive and leadership education. Cited in High Impact Consulting for having the number one impact of all consultants mentioned, his philosophy and practices routinely generate better than 100:1 returns.
John Hagel III
John Hagel is an independent management consultant and author who works with senior management to shape global business strategies and improve business performance. His experience includes senior management positions in technology businesses and sixteen years as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. John has written numerous books, including The Only Sustainable Edge with co-author John Seely Brown; they have created a joint web site – www.edgeperspectives.com – where their continuing research on “edge-strategy” can be accessed. Hagel is also the author of Out of the Box, Net Worth and Net Gain, all published by Harvard Business School Press. He has also written frequently for major business publications including Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and McKinsey Quarterly.
John Seely Brown
JSB is currently a visiting scholar at USC and prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)-a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape and nano technology. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the impact of globalization on business, the management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous computing and organizational and individual learning.
Tom Davenport
Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College in Babson Park, Massachusetts, the director of research at Babson Executive Education, and a fellow at Accenture. He is the author of Thinking for a Living (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). Davenport directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index, and most recently, what used to be called the Accenture Institute of Strategic Change. He has written, co-authored or edited ten books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems.
William P. Dunk
Management consultant and investor-relations adviser William P. Dunk is widely known for his ”Annual Report on Annual Reports,” a yearly exercise that has generated considerable national media attention since he began it in 1982. The late Louis Rukeyser devoted a news column to it each year. 1982 was the same year Dunk founded William Dunk Partners. Today the firm boasts a staff of 18 divided among New York, Dallas, San Francisco and Chapel Hill, which is where Dunk himself has been since 1996. Dunk’s goal has been to forge the most creative management consulting firm in America, and creativity in business is his central theme. He contends that with the advent of the 21st century, business has become radically different and that all enterprises, big and small, need to break away from the 20th-century practices that made businesspeople slow moving and walled companies away from global trends.
Marshall Goldsmith
Marshall Goldsmith is a coach to top executives in many of the world’s leading companies, a prominent speaker and educator, and the well-known author of many books and articles on leadership. He is one of the foremost authorities on how to help leaders achieve positive, measurable changes in their own behavior and in the behavior of their people and teams. In his coaching career, Dr. Goldsmith has worked with over 70 CEOs and their management teams. He continues to conduct workshops for executives, high-potential leaders and HR professionals. Recently, the American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of the 50 greatest thinkers and business leaders who have most influenced the field of management. Forbes named him as one of the five most-respected executive coaches. Dr. Goldsmith’s work has received recognition from the Academy of Management, the Institute for Management Studies, the American Society for Training and Developing, the Center for Creative Leadership, the Conference Board and the Human Resource Planning Society. He serves on the faculty of the executive education programs at Dartmouth and the University of Michigan. He has authored 18 books, including the best-selling The Leader of the Future. For 10 years, Dr. Goldsmith served as a Board Member at the Peter Drucker Foundation. He also donates a substantial amount of time to non-profit organizations. He has been selected as an American Red Cross “National Volunteer of the Year.” Dr. Goldsmith holds a B.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an MBA from Indiana University and a PhD. from U.C.L.A.
Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck’s executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents.VG’s area of expertise is strategy, with particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. Professional credits include: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Top Ten Thought Leader in Strategy Coaching, named in Profiles in Coaching; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students; and Top 50 Non-Resident Indians of the Year, named by NRI World. Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of The Ohio State University and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). He has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the International University of Japan (Urasa, Japan), and Helsinki School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland). VG has published seven books, including Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators — from Idea to Execution, co-authored with Chris Trimble.
Laurence Haughton
Laurence Haughton is a management consultant with over 20 years of front-line experience in manufacturing, retail, media and service industries. He is the author of It’s Not What You Say… It’s What You Do – How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company and co-author of It’s not the big that eat the small… It’s the FAST that eat the slow. An expert on execution and follow-through, Haughton has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and executives achieve higher revenues and profits by sharing new strategies for finding, keeping and growing customers and revolutionary tactics that make leaders faster and more effective. Haughton has co-hosted televised conferences, keynoted end-user meetings and keynoted presentations for trade groups, entrepreneurs and Fortune 50 companies like Kodak and AOL Time-Warner.
David Maister
David Maister is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the management of professional service firms. In 2002, he was identified as one of the top 40 business thinkers in the world (BUSINESS MINDS, Financial Times/Prentice Hall.) His first book on the professions, Managing the Professional Service Firm, published in 1993, collected many of his best articles. It was followed in 1997 by True Professionalism, and in 2000 by The Trusted Advisor, written with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford. In 2001 he published Practice What You Preach and in 2002, First Among Equals, co-authored with Patrick McKenna. A native of Great Britain, Maister holds degrees from the University of Birmingham, the London School of Economics and a doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. He began his teaching career at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and then joined the Harvard faculty, where he taught courses in managing service businesses and managing production operations from 1979-85. During that period he published seven books on academic business topics such as managing trucking and airline companies, factory operations, and architectural firms. Maister lives in Boston with his wife and coach, Kathy. He is an avid collector of popular music, and owns more than 15,000 CD’s and a rapidly growing number of DVDs. In March of 2005, he finally took his own advice, gave up smoking and lost 30 pounds.
Laurence Prusak
Larry Prusak is a researcher and consultant and was the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM). This was a global consortium of member organizations engaged in advancing the practice of knowledge management through action research. Larry has had extensive experience, within the U.S. and internationally, in helping organizations work with their information and knowledge resources. He has also consulted with many U.S. and overseas government agencies and international organizations (NGO’s). He currently co-directs “Working Knowledge,” a knowledge research program at Babson College, where he is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence.
Susan Webber
Susan Webber is a management consultant and corporate finance advisor with over 20 years of experience in financial services and major corporate transactions, such as mergers, joint ventures, and minority investments. She has an established track record of creating significant economic value for clients, and for devising practical solutions to complex, difficult problems. She has written over 40 articles for leading publications in the US and abroad, including The New York Times, The Conference Board Review, The Australian Financial Review, Institutional Investor, and other business and finance publications. Her website is www.auroraadvisors.com and her blog is www.nakedcapitalism.com.