.... Jorge Rufat‐Latre can be contacted at: jrlatre@strategos.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Innovation Product development Competences Organizational culture Leadership Partnership Open Innovation: seven years ago it was a bold and radical notion, challenging established...

... Business development Innovation Pricing policy Value added Partnership Forecasting Business‐model innovation is critical to success in today's increasingly complex and fast‐changing environment. So corporate leaders need to understand when to adapt the business model and how to execute the change...

... Chakravarthy can be contacted at: Chakravarthy@imd.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Corporate strategy Partnership Business development Knowledge sharing Networking Multinational companies are facing severe pressures to improve operational efficiency. This has led...

... relationship by aligning managers of the client and the outsourcing firm around a one‐team strategic partnership that focused on end‐user (customer) issues. Laura Stone can be contacted at: laura.stone@.stoneandcompany.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Project management...

... at: saul.berman@us.ibm.com © Authors 2009 Corporate strategy Recession Partnership Cost accounting Leaders The final months of 2008 unleashed sudden and sweeping economic turmoil in the global economy. Companies are now struggling to cope with the most severe recession in more than half...

... for a particular industry and the organization's strengths, shortcomings and characteristics such as age and size. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Business improvement Innovation Partnership In the IBM 2006 Global CEO Study [1] , which was based on interviews conducted with 765...

.... The challenge for retailers is to harness interactive electronic media to engage the customer in a productive dialog. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Retail trade Retailing Demography Innovation Marketing intelligence Buying behaviour Partnership Today's market forces are shaping...

... to develop the Smart car. Another example is the partnership between consumer electronic giant Philips and athletics ware manufacturer Nike. In March 2002[5] “Royal Philips Electronics and Nike, Inc. announced an alliance to merge their athletic and digital technology expertise to develop innovative...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Organizations Value added Partnership A decade ago, when C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel published Competing for the Future, widely recognized as one of the landmark strategy book of the 1990s, they aimed to redirect business leaders away from “catch‐up” concerns...