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A delicate balance
Organizational barriers to evidence-based management
James Guszcza and John Lucker
To thine own self be true
Sustaining superior performance requires knowing what should change and what should stay the same
Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed
Headwinds, tailwinds and the riddles of demographics
Demographics trends and their influences on workforces
Jorrit Volkers and Ardie van Berkel
The talent paradox
Critical skills, recession and the illusion of plenitude
Robin Erickson, Jeff Schwartz and Josh Ensell
Is your corporate footprint stuck in the mud?
Geography is a key driver of corporate performance
Darin Buelow, Matt Szuhaj, Josh Timberlake and Matt Adams
Making sense of social data
Digital exhaust and the next frontier in social data analytics
Doug Palmer, Vikram Mahidhar and Dan Elbert
We create data constantly, leaking information about our actions, whereabouts and characteristics. Increasingly these data are stored, analyzed and put to use, to understand us and our behaviors at an extraordinarily granular level – and forcing executives to rethink how they understand, reach and even influence their customers.
Growth's triple crown
When it comes to exceptional performance, the best companies don’t make trade-offs: They break them
Michael Raynor, Ragu Gurumurthy and Mumtaz Ahmed with Jeff schulz and Rajiv Vaidyanathan
It is tempting to assume that as companies grow they will see a decline in either or both their profitability and shareholder returns.
Mind the gap
What business needs to know about income inequality
Ira Kalish
There is a widening gap between the affluent and everyone else in the U.S. Trends suggest the affluent will be able to spend more while the rest of the population may be seriously constrained, with widespread leveraging of home values now a memory. What are the implications for companies that sell goods and services to consumers?
Government & publicly accountable enterprise
How citizens are defining the next age of intervention
Paul Macmillan
An explosion of mobile communications and social media is empowering citizens to define the next age of intervention and set new standards for public accountability. The light of transparency has never been brighter nor has the tolerance for misinformation ever been lower.
Gold rush
The scramble to claim and protect value in the digital world
Thomas Galizia, Trevor Gee and Ken Landis
With the press of a key or swipe of a card, personal information moves from the physical to the digital world, where ownership and the use of these data are not always well defined. How business leaders and citizens treat the ownership and use of this ocean of data will be discussed in boardrooms and courtrooms.
Ecosystems for innovation
An interview with U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra
Vikram Mahidhar
The advent of new digital infrastructures is enabling small groups of individuals with small investments to make a big impact, challenging traditional models of innovation. Among the prominent figures in the innovation space is U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, who shares his views on the role of technology in enabling innovation.
Brand resilience
Protecting your brand from saboteurs in a high-speed world
Jonathan Copulsky, Alicechandra Fritz and Mark White
With the continued ascent of social media and mobile technologies, brand sabotage incidents seem poised to increase. Building a great and resilient brand now requires playing aggressive defense, as well as offense. Building the capabilities to detect, respond to, and recover from incidents of brand sabotage is emerging as a priority.
I'm OK, you're OK…
With the U.S. health care system undergoing massive change, some stakeholders are taking bold, innovative steps
John Bigalke, William Copeland, Jr. and Paul Keckley
While the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remain a hot topic, the law is in some ways merely the tipping point for an industry under pressure from a variety of economic, demographic and competitive stressors.
Moving targets
Life sciences, health care reform and the new marketplace
Sanjay Behl, Terry Hisey and Ralph Marcello
For life sciences companies, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brings direct impacts. However, indirect impacts related to the changing nature of their relationships to other sectors and the choice and consumption of their products could be an even greater catalyst for transformation.
The innovator's manifesto
A problem of prediction An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Manifesto
Michael Raynor
Disruption, as originally described by Clayton Christensen, is a theory of innovation – of how particular types of new products and services achieve success or dominance in markets, often at the expense of incumbent providers. But is Disruption just another theory, or does it promise predictability?

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Common good
An interview with Lord Stephen Green, UK Minister for Trade and Investment
Did you say "free"?
What it takes to win in a world where “free” is the optimum price point by Mike Simonetto, Maggie Laird and Denys Aguirrebeitia.
Charging ahead
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile, but his Model T influenced manufacturing for generations. The advent of the battery electric vehicle—sometimes viewed as an incremental change to an iconic product—may reshape the value chain and perhaps society.
Geeks, tweets and cash
A conversation with Riley Crane of MIT Media Lab.
Good medicine or a bitter pill
Explore the implications of health care reform for businesses in America.
Integrating distressed assets
As the economy improves, the move to purchase assets in default or under bankruptcy protection has become an attractive path to growth. Often significantly discounted, they can represent the deal of a lifetime. But they also present a unique set of hazards.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
How rational managers came to be seen as reckless risk takers … but have been behaving sensibly all along.
The battle for brands in a world of private labels
Many consumers sense little difference between the quality of national brands and their private label counterparts as retailers focus on store brands and consumer product companies cede connections to retailers and customers.
Three levels of pull
Our economy is chock-a-block with businesses that maximize efficiency at scale. They presume predictability to mass-produce and mass-market products. Yet this “push” view is no longer a path to leadership.
Post merger integration
Much common wisdom surrounding post merger integration is anecdotal, at best. An empirical examination of one of the world’s largest PMI databases suggests a set of risk factors that help define risk profiles.