...: Seven years TOTAL: Three years Crowdsourcing Culture change Open innovation Change management Center of excellence In the last ten years many organizations have adopted open innovation (OI), an approach that searches outside their boundaries to find breakthrough solutions...

... focused on delivering day-to-day performance and a strategic accelerator network focused on innovation and agility. Design/methodology/approach – Kotter, a noted change management expert and Harvard professor emeritus, is questioned about his dual operating system concept by veteran strategist...

... their needs and interests. Helio Fred Garcia can be contacted at: hfgarcia@logosconsulting.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Leadership communications Crisis management Effective communications Imperious leaders Change management Stakeholder communication Communication...

... Innovator's dilemma Management innovations Product portfolio management Autonomous business units Continuous innovation Net Promoter Score Management transformations Innovation Change management In 1997, Clayton Christensen published his landmark book, The Innovator's Dilemma, [1...

... innovation. Innovation turnaround Radical management practices Dynamic linking Traditional hierarchical bureaucracy Cross‐functional team Change leadership Training Coaching Change management Salesforce.com is one of the most successful examples of a company transitioning from...

... driven top down. S&L: So the discovery and adoption steps in the process are critical. But why is your book critical of benchmarking and best practices? Isn't implementing PD a best practice? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Change management Problem levels...

... at: steve@stevedenning.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Management development Innovation Customer satisfaction Buyer‐seller relationships Team working Change management Adapting to rapidly changing market conditions and technology shifts and generating continuous innovation...

... Change management Organizational change Companies often start a downward spiral when they ignore changes in the competitive landscape, fail to keep up with new technologies, or ignore the ever‐changing needs of their customers. When the situation becomes dire, some organizations call on experienced...

... “supplemental feeding programs” were not available. So the Sternins needed a strategy that would “enable the villagers to somehow solve the problem for themselves.” It was this constraint that led them to consider the relatively obscure concept of positive deviance (PD). [13] Leadership Change management...

... decision making via parallel organizations. He can be contacted at: dzand@stern.nyu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Corporate strategy Business policy Line managers Organizational structures Change management Leadership The case in brief: A new CEO, after spending years...

... innovation Change management Resource management Economic value analysis Information transfer Knowledge management John Hagel III is co‐chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, which conducts research and develops concepts for new corporate growth. He is the co‐author of a series of books...

... interviews with project leaders, sponsors, project managers and change managers from many of the world's leading organizations. Findings The study finds that change management is at a turning point: from an art to a professional discussion; from improvisation to a richer, more systematic...

.... Bjelland can be contacted at: omb@xynteo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Organizational change Change management Acquisitions and mergers For half a century, change gurus have offered leaders a standard model of how to transform organizations: first, unfreeze the firm...

... is a critical but underappreciated aspect of innovation management in companies such as Sun Microsystems that depend on continuous innovation for their competitiveness. Liisa Välikangas can be contacted at: liisa.valikangas@hse.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Innovation Change...

... that works best in practice. Findings The paper finds a surprisingly effective change management skill: learn to tell simple, attention getting stories that enable audiences to recognize and choose future possibilities that they have hitherto missed. Practical implications...

...). Professor Edward I. Altman, the originator of the Z‐score model, provided the graphics for this paper and offered valuable suggestions on it. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Corporate strategy Assessment Performance management Change management Even though the “metrics...

... by a team of veteran top managers and senior academics. Findings The result is a surprisingly diverse set of media articles about strategy and leadership on such topics as promoting innovation, knowledge bridging, enabling change management, capitalism in failed states, building the no‐brand...

... be contacted at: gary@starizon.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Storytelling Strategic change change management Communication management Conventional wisdom says that when confronted with a major organizational change – one that shakes the very foundations of how a company does...

..., the reality is that most organizations need help to get the full benefits of using storytelling. Storytelling Change management Narratives Strategic change © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Stephen Denning is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: steve...

... them. Even when change programs are compelled by a major crisis, the final results usually fall short of the expectations raised by the exhortations of corporate leaders. Change management Organizational change Strategic leadership Transition management © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...